20.02.19
Trust tells NHS staff they have to reapply for new jobs at Hull and East Yorkshire hospitals
Up to 50 members of NHS staff working at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been told they must apply for new jobs in the NHS.
The trust has told the staff they need to apply for new roles as part of a major restructure in a bid to “improve the consistency and efficiency” of its administration division.
The hospitals trust, which has faced issues in the past with staff recruitment and struggled to cope with high levels of pressure, confirmed that no staff would be made redundant but some will have to reapply for new roles within the trust.
"Some of these roles will reflect promotion and more responsibility, no staff are affected by redundancy,” the trust said in a statement.
It added: “We currently employ approximately 750 staff in patient administration roles, of whom a maximum of 50 staff will go through a process to apply for new roles.”
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, said it expects staff numbers to remain around the same level.
The statement continued: “The review is being carried out in an attempt to improve the consistency and efficiency of the service.
“The review has identified that we still need the same number of staff in the future but with a mix of different grades and roles.”
Last year “intense levels of pressure” saw office staff at the trust forced to volunteer on frontline services.
The trust’s bosses implemented ‘Operation Wintergreen’ in order to deal with spiking winter pressures, and staff were asked to be ‘runners’ in order to free up time for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is one of the largest in the UK and is currently rated as ‘requires improvement’ by the CQC after concerns were raised around patient risk assessments and inconsistencies found in follow-up appointments and the storing of patient records.
But inspectors did praise the organisation for significant improvements in culture and performance at the trust – whose former boss and chief nurse faced fraud charges the month before.
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