Hse interview appeal

funky sausage

hi,

just wondering if anyone here has any experience of the above or you think i have a case to be looked at.

Applied for interviews for a national panel job of assistant director of nursing. Application is scenario based asking for proof of experience. Did this, was shortlisted.

Was disappointed to here that somehow they decided to interview locally. A surprise given that the national recruitment service had made staff nurses and cnm's goto dublin at their own expense for interviews. Disgusted when i was told that the new director of nursing (don) for the whole service area was on the panel. This man who had unto recently been in charge of a specific area, worked as Don for that area and had and continued to work very closely with candidates from his old area.

At interview I feel i answered well but got the feeling that they felt i had made up my scenarios. This was compounded by the Don who questioned me last who clearly hadn't bothered to read my scenarios and when i brought up a particular area stopped me abruptly saying that wasn't relevant, i advised him that it was pertinent to the situation, waited for him to read, and was then advised to carry on.

I went on to discuss policy and of those of which I researched and implemented myself. These polices are in place and are of quite some significance dealing with medication issues and the aftermath of violence and aggression. I was informed that although one of the policies is backed by research from the Nice guidelines that it was wrong. Where do you go from there?

This combined with him making arrangements to meet with certain people before interview in April to discuss corporate policy.

Now I wasn't expected a job from this and i'm fully aware that the jobs in question had names on them. However the marks i received are outrageous,
I was given an average of 24 out of 100 for each section and was not panelled.

Now i've history with that Don, in that i've argued with him in senior meetings about situations that could of been sorted out quickly with his intervention.

So do you think this is payback? Have i grounds to appeal?

Thanks for reading

candyflossgirl

Hi if you believe that you were unfairly treated at the interview and your interview results suffered as a result, perhaps you should consider appealing the decision but there may not be a facility to do so. However, I would ask you how many people sat on the interview panel-and if it's the HSE I presume there were at least three different people from different functions-eg nursing HR Management etc. If that is the case I know that the panel get quite strict guidelines as to how to score candidates and I would assume that the panel make a fair decision based on what they observe from the candidate. I have done these competency/scenario based interviews for the HSE (in a different discipline) and they are very tough and it's really disappointing if you don't get through but some people can be average workers but just score better in interivews. It's possible there was a limit to the numbers they were allowed to place on the panel and it's possible that you just missed the mark. You can't know for sure. It might be a good idea to speak to your union rep and take it from there.

Eoin

Can those marks count against you for future applications?

What outcome are you hoping for?

davo10

I doubt you can claim discrimination so there is likely no grounds for claiming they did anything wrong, everyone who interviewed was probably required to have similar qualifications and experience. As Eoin said, what do you hope to gain? You will not get the job and you will probably harm your future prospects if a similar job with a different interview panel comes up.

Whether we like it or not, sometimes we have to accept that there are better candidates than us and that some are better at interview than others. You may have come across as confrontational or difficult and it is never wise to correct an interviewer if you want them to hire you.