FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03480
- Request Date
- December 24, 2019
- Subject
- Recruitment Drives Abroad
- Description
How much have you spent in each of the last three financial years on travelling abroad and recruitment costs in the selection and recruitment of foreign nurses or other staff for your trust?
For each recruitment exercise please state:
1). The number of staff who were sent to the foreign country to facilitate the recruitment drive. Provide a breakdown of staff stating how many were your direct employees and how many were agency staff.
2). The total cost to the trust of the recruitment exercise including flights and accommodation.
3). The city and country that were visited as part of the exercise, and the dates that they were in the foreign country.
4). The type of staff (job description) that it was hoped would be recruited.
5). The number of staff from the recruitment drive that were recruited and started work at your Trust.
- Response
1). 3 staff from the trust were sent to the foreign country to facilitate the recruitment drive accompanied by 2 agency staff.
2). The 2016 and 2017 trips were funded by the agency, the 2019 trip cost was £5,496.71
3). The country the trust recruited from was the Philippines.
It was visited 3 times as shown below.
2016 – 1
2017 – 1
2018 – 0
2019 – 1
4). Please see accompanying document
5). To date 58 in post and a further 185 under offer