FOI 0102/2022 Request
Dear Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust,
Please could you provide the following information under the freedom of information act covering
the last 12 months:
1. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international doctors and if so which
agencies were used?
Pulse, MSI
2. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international nurses and if so which agencies
were used?
NIL (0)
3. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international allied health professionals and
if so which agencies were used?
NIL (0)
4. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international non-medical non-clinical staff
and if so which agencies were used?
NIL (0)
5. Please provide a breakdown of the number of staff placed as result of permanent/international
recruitment using agencies split by; doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and non-medical
non-clinical? Please also provide the associated costs broken down in the same format.
3 Doctors
£24,000
total
6. Does your Trust intend to recruit the beforementioned job roles on a permanent/international
recruitment basis using an agency over the next 12 months?
Yes
7. What was the total permanent/international recruitment agency spend on the
beforementioned job roles?
NIL (0)
8. What was your total temporary agency spend on the beforementioned job roles?
Please see the table below and note that the breakdown provided will differ from the
beforementioned job roles.
This is because the Trust does not capture the agency data in the requested format.
Obtaining the data in the requested format will require exhaustive and manual measures that
exceed the threshold of carrying out this task.
The Trust therefore rely on exemption Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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9. Do you have a central recruitment team or an international recruitment lead? Yes
10. The contact name of the person in charge of your procurement department for dealing with
permanent/international recruitment?
The Trust is unable to confirm the name of the person in charge permanent/international
recruitment.
This is because we do not routinely release staff members information for those working within a
role under a band 8c.
However, the Trust can confirm that there is a dedicated International Recruitment lead that deals
with permanent/international recruitment.