Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to implement new Oleeo’s ATS software for recruitment, applicant management and reporting.
The trust, which employs 14,000 people across two acute hospitals, 13 community hospitals and a range of community, primary care and mental health services, is planning to go live with the new system in May.
Oleeo said it will help managers to use the system to recruit around 1,800 people every six months by creating job adverts that work for a diverse pool of potential applicants, including more personalised information for candidates, and creating better data on what is working.
Iain Reed, who works for the recruitment team at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We want to change the way we approach recruitment and we’re pleased to be working with Oleeo to develop some really innovative ideas to achieve this.
“Using Oleeo’s ATS software means we will be able to send candidates a video to show them all the things that are great about working here. We also want to improve equality, diversity and inclusivity across the trust.
“The new system will give us better data on which groups we are recruiting from, as well as automated features, to make sure that our managers are supported in writing adverts that don’t inadvertently exclude anyone from the hundreds of career paths we have to offer.”
Automation capability
The software will make it possible to automate aspects of the recruitment process and give managers and candidates access to dashboards that show where responses or checks need to be completed. It includes a tool to pick up terms that could have an adverse impact on applications, and others that can help recruitment teams identify groups that are not coming forward in response to ads and adjust processes in response.
It is fully integrated with the NHS Electronic Staff Record and with NHS Jobs.
