Sligo General hospital clerical staff

Attacktim

Hello
Does anyone know where these positions are advertised?
I was in the Sligo general hospital today and it seems there is always new clerical and medical reception staff there, who I would recognise from seeing them in their previous jobs which were in shops and pubs
I never see any advertisements I'm wondering is it all in house, and word of mouth as I've noticed a lot of the same relations and friends seem to be working there now,
I've checked on the HSE website and all the usual jobs websites but these jobs never come up

If anyone has any tips on where to apply it would be great

fg1406

There are clerical officer panels set up every 2 years. The panels are then used to fill vacancies so those new staff that you see could be taken from those panels. They could have been on the panel months, up to 2 years before being offered a job.

Alternatively they could be agency staff. There are some agency admin staff in the hospitals around the country.

Attacktim

fg1406 wrote: »

There are clerical officer panels set up every 2 years. The panels are then used to fill vacancies so those new staff that you see could be taken from those panels. They could have been on the panel months, up to 2 years before being offered a job.

Alternatively they could be agency staff. There are some agency admin staff in the hospitals around the country.

Thanks for your reply
How do I go about getting on the panel?

koumi

Attacktim wrote: »

Thanks for your reply
How do I go about getting on the panel?

Don't know if it helps but I worked as a clerical officer in a regional hospital during the moratorium as a jobBridge intern, the same year (2014) public jobs reopened panels for full time and part time positions. (I took the internship following 12 months full time study in administration and had a qualification in social care too) While I was there several of my former class mates were taken on through an agency after ten weeks work experience and after three months when the moratorium was lifted those jobs were transferred over to HSE contracts. I asked how I could go about obtaining agency work but was told if I left my internship they would not hire me through agency, so I stayed on my jobBridge right up until four weeks before completion. I got sick and got a cert for a week during which I realised I just didnt have the strength left to continue and handed in my notice. As a penalty for not completing my internship I was unable to apply for any further work there.

Since completing my intenship I applied through agencies (a lot of them) and have never got a call back. Just recently, last month an agency ran an advertisement for panel for part time temporary clerical staff, I made an application and got an email back asking for more information and the following day I received a phone call from the same agency, which I missed, but attempted to return only to get voicemail. I never heard anything back.

What I can say is that the hospital I was working in never recruited anyone via public jobs campaigns, all the people I worked with were hired through an agency and those who were offered jobs were informed of which agency to apply to and when those jobs were available. If you ask me it was all in house. (yes I did contact the public service appointments commission and was told this was above board) Just my two cent. (I just went back to college to study something else in the end)