How has the pandemic impacted healthcare recruitment?
6 May 2021
In the past year, our working lives have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether it’s working from home, being furloughed or adjusting to social distancing measurements – there’s been a lot of changes!
We spoke to our healthcare recruitment team to see how their day-to-day roles have been transformed by the pandemic in each healthcare sector. Take a look at what they had to say.
Kirsty Dennett (Health in Justice)
Kirsty also works in recruiting applicants for our Health in Justice and secure environment teams and even though she’s new to the healthcare scene she has been observing how the recruitment landscape has changed over the past year.
The key change Kirsty has noticed is more people with no previous healthcare experience applying for clinical roles. Kirsty says:
I have noticed quite a few applications from candidates who have a lot of retail or catering experience that have unfortunately found themselves redundant or facing a reduction in hours due to the pandemic and are looking for a new industry to get into. I am an example of this having been made redundant from a recruitment role within financial services last year when the pandemic hit.
Has COVID-19 changed your career plans? Perhaps you’re looking for a change of location or a new team of friendly faces?
We’re currently recruiting clinical roles and non-clinical roles nationwide, including at our hospitals, call centres, prisons and support services.
