To support Recruiting Managers with Recruitment and Selection, the following courses are available to book via the learning and development prospectus:

  • Values based interview training
  • Recruitment process training

If you would like to arrange training specifically for your team please contact Jenny Richards, Strategic Recruitment Manager, jenny.richards@merseycare.nhs.uk 

Purpose: The purpose of this training is to equip interview panels with skills and techniques to ensure that we recruit the right people with the right skills whose values, behaviours and attitudes align with those of the Trust.

Target audience: All staff involved in interviewing.

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

The training session includes the following:

  • The importance of selecting for values, behaviours and attitudes
  • The interview process (including questions and assessment forms)
  • Techniques to use during the interview to understand candidates values, behaviours and attitudes
  • Using values based interviewing to increase safeguarding
  • Using Trust values to select the right candidate
  • Unconscious bias and how this impacts recruitment decisions
  • Challenging own and others bias to make better, fairer decisions

How to book: Prospectus on SharePoint Learning and Development Prospectus - Course (merseycare.nhs.uk)

If you would like to arrange a training session specifically for your team please contact jenny.richards@merseycare.nhs.uk 

This one day interactive course is designed for all managers involved in Recruitment.

The course will cover:

  • Vacancy Authorisation Process using Trac
  • Attraction (including advert writing, pre-screening questions during the advert stage & social media)
  • Shortlisting using Trac
  • Organising interviews (how to prepare for them, application forms, declaration forms & what forms to send to Resourcing)
  • Service user involvement
  • Offers and pre-employment checks
  • Visa’s – the basics
  • How to recruit quickly