Permanent/International Recruitment
Dear Kent Community 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?
2. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international nurses and if so which agencies were used?
3. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international allied health professionals and if so which agencies were used?
4. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent/international non-medical non-clinical staff and if so which agencies were used?
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.
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?
7. What was the total permanent/international recruitment agency spend on the beforementioned job roles?
8. What was your total temporary agency spend on the beforementioned job roles?
9. Do you have a central recruitment team or an international recruitment lead?
10. The contact name of the person in charge of your procurement department for dealing with permanent/international recruitment?
Please respond as soon as possible, thanks for your cooperation in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Jacob Johnson
Dear Mr Johnson
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Under the Act we have 20 working days to respond to a request, therefore we will aim to provide you with our response by 29 July 2022. However, please be advised that our resources have been diverted to support our front-line colleagues who are working tremendously hard to provide care for our patients, and to those in need of our services. As you can hopefully understand, this is resulting in delays responding to information requests. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.
Should our response to your request breach the statutory timeframe and you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office. The Information Commissioner’s offices will be closed for the foreseeable future, and are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post but can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Should you need to contact us in the meantime, please quote reference number 2022.090.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
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Dear Mr Johnson
With regard to your request for information via the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, please find attached our response.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
In accordance with GDPR Art. 6(1)(c) processing of your data by Kent
Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is necessary for compliance with its
legal obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to respond to
you. Please refer to the “access to information” section available on our
website: [1]https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/about-us/acce...
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