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Registered Nurse Recruitment 2023-24 to date

Reference: 25-26188

Date response sent: 05/08/2025

Details of enquiry

  1. Are there currently, or have there been any recruitment freezes in place affecting solely, or including, the registered nurse workforce [i.e band 5 and up] in the last two financial years, and/or up to present day?

i. If yes, have any of these recruitment freezes specifically targeted at entry level band 5 nurses [i.e: registered nurses on the starting pay point of band 5]?

ii. If yes, please provide the timeframes and reason for the freezes.

2. How many band 5 registered nurse vacancies do you currently have at your trust?

3. How many entry-level band 5 domestically trained/recruited nurses have you recruited at your trust during the last two years?

4. [Please also detail separately any internationally recruited nurses you have taken on at entry level band 5 in the same time period]

Response sent

Some of your questions are not applicable to The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust as we do employ any band 5 nurses.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department

  1. Are there currently, or have there been any recruitment freezes in place affecting solely, or including, the registered nurse workforce [i.e band 5 and up] in the last two financial years, and/or up to present day?

No

  1. How many band 5 registered nurse vacancies do you currently have at your trust?

Nil We do not employ any band 5 nurses

  1. How many entry-level band 5 domestically trained/recruited nurses have you recruited at your trust during the last two years?

Nil.  We do not employ any band 5 nurses.

The Trust does not hold data on where nurses received their training

  1. [Please also detail separately any internationally recruited nurses you have taken on at entry level band 5 in the same time period]

None – the Trust does not undertake international recruitment campaigns.  All our vacancy advertising is placed on https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ and foreign nationals may apply for these roles.

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