Hiqa inspection officers

Bluemoney

Hi everyone,

I read that HIQA are employing 50 inpsectors for Nursing homes, begining in July. Does anyone know when this recruitment will happen?

Suaimhneach

Hi,

I am not familar with Nursing, but I would generally recommend you contact the company directly and ask to speak with HR or Recruitment.

Good luck.

Clueso Gadget

I see HIQA are now looking for 14 Inspectors for Cork and Dublin, June 2011. Anyone know the background you need to get this job or what those already doing it came from, they don't really say in the booklet? I thought applicants would have to be from a social care/work or nursing background but it doesn't specify that in the booklet, just any degree and a list of competencies including knowledge in the health/social care area - knowledge doesn't mean experience though?

shoes77

Clueso i am having the same problem. Dont know what they are looking for. The salary is Engineer grade 2 (Equivelant). Have you heard anything

Clueso Gadget

shoes77 wrote: »

Clueso i am having the same problem. Dont know what they are looking for. The salary is Engineer grade 2 (Equivelant). Have you heard anything

No but surely if they are only looking for those who have direct experience in health and social care, then they would have stated it! I hope so or I just wasted 4 hours filling in an application...

Maryorange

Hi, was interested is being a hiqa inspection what is it like to work for HIQA anybody help me please

Maryorange

shoes77 wrote: »

Clueso i am having the same problem. Dont know what they are looking for. The salary is Engineer grade 2 (Equivelant). Have you heard anything

Hi i am wondering did u get the HIQA position what it's like interested is becoming an inspector looking forward hearing from you

the14thwarrior

if you go to HIQA website and download job description you will see they need a degree, a professional degree in an associated healthcare area such as nursing, social worker etc. professional degrees are different than standard degrees, I herd there may be long hours but i'm looking to find out myself,. application form is very long!

Maryorange

Hi, application form is very long, did you sent off an application form, hope to get my off tonight.Have to applied for position before with HIQA.

lazeedaisy

Anyone apply this time? got an email a week ago with assessment test. broadband not fast enough at the mo. but got an email this morning telling me i did not make the cut. ?? i have til Friday to do assessment or did.

all seems weird. thought i would check if its only me.

Maryorange

Hi i got a phone call from cpl it was a mistake must do asessments i say the difficult i wonder how long are the asessments??

bluethunder

Got the email and then subsequent email/phone call to say it was a mistake. Had done the test the night before so was gutted to think I didn't make the grade.

Tests were pretty tricky and there's a lot of time pressure.

For what it's worth, I think these roles (Regulatory Officer) are different to the ones at the start of the thread. It's more entry level/graduate and the salary is nowhere near what the inspection officer role was if i remember correctly.

Anyway, no doubt there were hundreds of applications.

Maryorange

Hi
Best of luck , how long did it take you to complete all tests.The salary is much lower this time hope to do test tomorrow not looking forward to it

bluethunder

You can log in with the details provided and see the links for the three tests. They're all time limited and you need to do them by Friday.

About the salary, it's not that it's lower than before. It's that this is a different role to the ones advertised before, a lower grade. As far as I can see anyway.

Keveil

Hi I took the online tests today & I found the numerical extremely difficult. just wondering if it was just me or did anyone else think this as well??

roe_cat

Yup -numerical was definitely the hardest part. I know I'm out of practice but just understanding the tables and questions took up most of the time before I even had a chance to try work anything out...

bluethunder

Yeah, numerical toughest for me too. It was the time pressure more than anything. Managed to get to the last 3-4 questions and had to just guess the rest in about 30 seconds. Inductive was the easiest I thought, seemed to be ample time to get through everything.

Hey I just completed these online assessments, first time iv completed tests like that before for job process. I really wanted to apply for HIQA jobs in 2011 but didnt think I had enough experience so have been working towards to that. I know this role is different but im assuming people other than graduates will be applying?

Ladybug14

Hey guys I'm really interested in working with HIQA. Is it to late to apply? I couldn't seem to find it on their website.. Thanks

Ladybug14

Ladybug14 wrote: »

Hey guys I'm really interested in working with HIQA. Is it to late to apply? I couldn't seem to find it on their website.. Thanks

Hi Ladybug,sorry the closing date was back in March

Ahh got an email for the assessment centre.. anyone else?? I automatically fear I will mess it up as its verify the online results.

bluethunder

Nothing here yet. Really hoping no news is good news.

bluethunder

Ah, seems no news was bad news. Just got the rejection email

bluethunder

bluethunder wrote: »

Ah, seems no news was bad news. Just got the rejection email

Sorry to hear that bluethunder. I'm not feeling very optimistic about it was hard enough first time around

Keveil

Hi All

Just got rejection email. Thought I had done quite well but I only had a honours degree. Thinking maybe that was a big factor. What does everyone else think.

Erdin hope I am not being nosy but did you have a Masters or PhD?

bluethunder

Keveil wrote: »

Hi All

Just got rejection email. Thought I had done quite well but I only had a honours degree. Thinking maybe that was a big factor. What does everyone else think.

Erdin hope I am not being nosy but did you have a Masters or PhD?

Didn't come into it at this stage. Once you have an honours degree you were eligible to take the online test. Getting to stage 3 was simply on the basis of scores in the test.

I have a masters so I don't know if that was taken into consideration or not.

Keveil

Hi Erdin

Well congratulations! I wish you all the best. What was the area of your Masters? Just curious to see if they were looking at certain areas.

Keveil

bluethunder wrote: »

Didn't come into it at this stage. Once you have an honours degree you were eligible to take the online test. Getting to stage 3 was simply on the basis of scores in the test.

I know what you mean bluethunder but obviously if they can call in 200 applicants with Masters or PhD then they will be able to recruit the creme de la creme!

lazeedaisy

also got the call, have a masters too - RCSI Healthcare but not hoours for what its worth

Oh I wanted to do that one some day laiseedaisy! Mine is in rehabilitation and disability.

safc_pete

I got the confirmation email today. Assessment centre next Monday. Anyone have any idea how many place they're hiring?

Maryorange

Did not get to stage 3 gutted

lazeedaisy

assessment also next week, afaik its 30 they are looking to hire, not sure of the location split though

Anyone do their second assessment today?

safc_pete

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone do their second assessment today?

I did. Think it went OK.

safc_pete

safc_pete wrote: »

I did. Think it went OK.

Found the verbal and logical easier than the online but numerical harder, although that could have been just the added pressure!

safc_pete

Deleted User wrote: »

Found the verbal and logical easier than the online but numerical harder, although that could have been just the added pressure!

Yeah I flew through those but was stuck for time on the numerical but that's pretty much the same as the one I did at home. Fingers crossed....

bluethunder

Didn't make it through to Stage 3 myself but just curious as to the process. Were there many at the assessment centre? Did you do it in Cork or Dublin? Is stage 3 merely to confirm your score from stage 2 or will there be a further whittling down based on scores in stage 3?

Very disappointed to have missed out on this, got feedback from HR telling me I was 2 percentile points off the mark.

Malarkey101

bluethunder wrote: »

Didn't make it through to Stage 3 myself but just curious as to the process. Were there many at the assessment centre? Did you do it in Cork or Dublin? Is stage 3 merely to confirm your score from stage 2 or will there be a further whittling down based on scores in stage 3?

Very disappointed to have missed out on this, got feedback from HR telling me I was 2 percentile points off the mark.

Mine was in Dublin, yea was just to confirm your score basically just had to do the tests in a room with people supervising

alexlyons

Didn't make stage 3.

However, I got an email there the other day saying that they had decided to invite more people through, so I have the same tests as done at home, but under supervision. They want me to go to Cork on Friday which isn't a big deal at all, except I got a decent enough job yesterday, starting monday week, so not sure if I'll do it or not!

It's going to be at least Tuesday until we find out if we are through to next stage. Wonder why did they decide to bring more people through unless people failed the verification stage.

Am raging with email I got today, it said my results didnt verify with the ones I took under supervision... I didnt receive the results so I have no idea where or what the discrepancy is but I am appealing it. Its actually insulting when they are implying that you cheated. Anyone else in the same boat??

Malarkey101

I havent heard back yet can I ask what time you got your email?

Malarkey101

Malarkey101 wrote: »

I havent heard back yet can I ask what time you got your email?

I got it at 3pm today. I really hoping that it's another mistake like the first email sent out saying not to complete the online tests as there's no come back for me to say I did both sets of tests , it's so frustrating

safc_pete

Deleted User wrote: »

Am raging with email I got today, it said my results didnt verify with the ones I took under supervision... I didnt receive the results so I have no idea where or what the discrepancy is but I am appealing it. Its actually insulting when they are implying that you cheated. Anyone else in the same boat??

That sucks. I haven't heard anything yet so hopefully no news is good news.

bluethunder

@Erdin, that's harsh, sorry to hear it. I got an email last week inviting me to Stage 3 this Friday. Seems to me they're doing another round of stage 3 assessments which can't have been part of the original plan. I can only assume that a significant number of people didn't manage to match their online test scores.

roe_cat

So have extra people been called back for tests in both Dublin and Cork? Still waiting to hear back from my assessment last week (Dublin)- but assuming it won't happen this week now if they're testing more people...

bluethunder

roe_cat wrote: »

So have extra people been called back for tests in both Dublin and Cork? Still waiting to hear back from my assessment last week (Dublin)- but assuming it won't happen this week now if they're testing more people...

Can't speak for Dublin but i'm going to Stage 3 in Cork this Friday.

safc_pete

Just got an email to say that I'm going through to Stage 4. It's an assessment centre in the last two weeks in May.

Malarkey101

safc_pete wrote: »

Just got an email to say that I'm going through to Stage 4. It's an assessment centre in the last two weeks in May.

Congrats same here see you end of May!