No applications for many Healthcare roles as Talent crisis deepens .
As we roll out our Xmas campaign to attract back to Ireland key Healthcare professionals an interesting article by Susan Mitchell in the Sunday Business Post points out the very real concern in the Irish health sector relating to acute skills shortages in all occupation .
The article points out that Dublin’s Voluntary hospitals received just one or no applications for approximately one in every six hospital consultants posts advertised in 2016 .
According to the paper 12 hospitals provided comprehensive figures showing that 15 posts advertised out of 88 received one applicant or none at all .
The HSE was unable to fill at least one in four medical consultants post advertise by the Public Appointments Service for hospitals owned and managed by the Executive last year .
Hospitals included in this are Beaumont,Tallaght,St James,The Mater and St Vincent’s in Beaumont’s case figures supplied to the SBP show that 7 out of 20 posts advertised last year received just one applicant .
Figures provided to the SBP by the Public Appointments Service which recruits for all public service roles are very worrying indeed and they show that the Appointment service was unable to identify a suitable candidate for 22 of the 84 posts advertised in 2016, with 8 posts not getting a single applicant .These posts included much needed services in radiology, emergency medicine, cardiology dermatology,obstetrics and ophthalmology .
Back 4 Good is involved in a major digital campaign aimed at attracting back to Ireland up to 1000 professionals in the Healthcare sector and has advised the Government of various solutions that may assist them in achieving a significant increase in applications for the many roles required.
