Almost 500 people apply for 100 clinical roles a jobs’ day.
We had a very busy Saturday in Mahon, when the Cork Medical Centre, Ireland’s newest private hospital, commenced the second stage of it’s recruitment drive. The main operating theatres are due to open on 14th March, so in order to save time there was a recruitment Open Day on Saturday where prospective employees could drop off their CVs in person, meet the management team and tour the hospital. On offer are 100 clinical positions in nursing, radiology, theatre, pharmacy and laboratory.
The response was incredible. The recruitment day was due to run between 12 noon and 3pm, but people were queuing from 8am. By noon the queue was all the way around corner onto St Michael’s Drive and down to the main road. See here.
Queues snaked out of City Gate and along St Michael's Road
Almost 500 people attended the recruitment day, with half of those being nurses. By people came from all over the south of Ireland, from as far afield as Kerry and Waterford; ten people even came down from Dublin. This not too surprising as there had been extensive media coverage about the event on page of the Irish Examiner and page 6 of the Irish Independent, both local radio stations, Red FM and Cork’s 96 FM as well as national radio stations, Today FM, Newstalk and Radio 1, which culminated in piece on RTE’s Six One TV News, which you can view here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0119/corkmedicalcentre.html#video
This demand led to the open day running on until 4.30pm to ensure everybody was seen too and ensure they also got to see the facility. The Irish Examiner sent a photographer down to cover that day and did a follow up piece below, which also appeared on page 2, by their local news reporter Eoin English see below:
Coverage from Page 2 of today's Irish Examiner
Below is a link to the article on the web and we have also pasted in text
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/almost-500-compete-for-100-jobs-at-new-hospital-142988.html
IRISH EXAMINER: Almost 500 compete for 100 jobs at new hospital
By Eoin English
MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011
ALMOST 500 people queued for 100 medical jobs at the country’s newest private hospital at the weekend.
Job seekers began queuing outside the Cork Medical Centre in Mahon from 8am for the walk-in recruitment event which began at noon and ran over by almost two hours.
The €90 million centre, operated by Sheehan Medical, was officially opened last October.
It employs 50 people, and ultimately plans to employ 525.
The recruitment day on Saturday was held to fill 100 clinical positions in nursing, theatre, radiology, laboratory and pharmacy, ahead of the opening of its operating theatres on March 14.
One nurse will be assigned to each of the centre’s 73 beds.
Chief operating officer Philip Sheehan, thanked all those who attended.
“We will be starting the interview process as soon as possible and hope to have the positions filled very shortly.
“We aim to have people from the second stage of recruitment on-board by the end of February, in advance of our main operating theatres open for in-patients in March.”
Up to 75 doctors will be leasing space in the hospital over the coming weeks, bringing with them an extra 100 ancillary staff.
And more jobs will be created when the hospital’s oncology services, executive health screening unit, stress test unit, and cath labs come on stream.
Cork Medical Centre has 73 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control, four operating theatres, and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.
While Aviva and Quinn are already providing insurance cover for their clients attending the hospital, talks with the VHI are at a very advanced stage and a positive announcement is expected soon.
Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/almost-500-compete-for-100-jobs-at-new-hospital-142988.html#ixzz1Bz3Ze9iTIt employs 50 people, and ultimately plans to employ 525.
The recruitment day on Saturday was held to fill 100 clinical positions in nursing, theatre, radiology, laboratory and pharmacy, ahead of the opening of its operating theatres on March 14.
One nurse will be assigned to each of the centre’s 73 beds.
Chief operating officer Philip Sheehan, thanked all those who attended.
“We will be starting the interview process as soon as possible and hope to have the positions filled very shortly.
“We aim to have people from the second stage of recruitment on-board by the end of February, in advance of our main operating theatres open for in-patients in March.”
Up to 75 doctors will be leasing space in the hospital over the coming weeks, bringing with them an extra 100 ancillary staff.
And more jobs will be created when the hospital’s oncology services, executive health screening unit, stress test unit, and cath labs come on stream.
Cork Medical Centre has 73 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control, four operating theatres, and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.
While Aviva and Quinn are already providing insurance cover for their clients attending the hospital, talks with the VHI are at a very advanced stage and a positive announcement is expected soon.
This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, January 24, 2011
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