Panel Interviews. The Hospital and WSNA value the ability for nurses to actively participate in the hiring process on an advisory interview panel. To this end, managers may elect, or an applicant may request, to utilize “panel interviews” when skill and ability in a specialty area or qualities such as teaching ability or collaboration skills are deemed particularly important (for example for Charge Nurse, Specialty Educator or other positions). Panel interviews shall be subject to the following:
Panel Interviews. The Chief Education Officer (or Nominee), will chair the recruitment panel for Headteacher appointments. The Headteacher will chair the panel for Depute Headteacher and Principal Teacher appointments. For Headteacher recruitment questions will be selected from the Headteacher Recruitment Toolkit and agreed with the Recruitment Panel. For Depute Headteachers and Principal Teacher posts the Headteacher will in consultation with other panel members prepare, select and agree questions for the interview. The Chair of the recruitment panel will agree the format of the interview and it is expected that all Panel Members participate in the asking of the questions. The same questions will be asked of all candidates. The interview sheet, to be used by the panel to record candidate responses, should have prompts for the interviewers on what they should be listening out for in terms of the candidate’s response. For Headteacher posts, recruitment panels should meet together, no less than 30 minutes before the first interview is to begin, to ensure all members of the panel are briefed on the questions to ask candidates. Feedback from the Assessment Centre will be considered after the interviews have taken place. It is the responsibility of the recruitment panel to agree the preferred candidate and order of reserve candidates if this is agreed. The Chair of the panel will have the casting vote where the panel is unable to reach a consensus. There are guidance and proformas in the Schools, Learning and Education Headteacher Recruitment Pack to ensure a consistent approach is applied to the process.
Panel Interviews. The Hospital and WSNA value the ability for nurses to actively participate in the hiring process on an advisory interview panel. To this end, managers may elect, or an applicant may request, to utilize “panel interviews” when skill and ability in a specialty area or qualities such as teaching ability or collaboration skills are deemed particularly important (for example for Charge Nurse, Specialty Educator or other positions). Panel interviews shall be subject to the following: • Where practical given the size of the unit, the panel must include at least three staff nurses from the department who hold a .5 or greater FTE; • Interview panels will be made up of nurses who are randomly selected to be invited to participate in the interview process by Human Resources; • The panel must interview all applicants and ask the same basic questions of each; • Panel interviewers shall rank the applicants from most qualified to least, giving due consideration to seniority. The Manager shall take into consideration the advisory panel’s ranking when determining who is the most qualified for the position; • A WSNA representative, not in the affected unit, shall attend the panel interviews as an observer to promote consistency in the interview process.
