What alternatives are available to me to replace the face to face interviews?

Your recruitment contact will invite candidates to choose an interview slot in the usual way via NHS Jobs and will be told that the interview will be held using Zoom either via the Chrome browser or the Zoom app.  Skype is also available if all your interviews are with internal candidates. 

Interviews using Zoom – Prior to your interview day, your recruitment contact will send to you, your panel and the candidates an email with a link and information to enable you to join the online interview.  Please see links to the guidance regarding the use of Zoom.

Guidance document for interview panels - downloading Zoom for interviews

Guidance document for joining a scheduled Zoom meeting

Guidance document for candidates - using Zoom for interviews

Skype Meetings - If your interviews are for internal candidates only you may wish to use Skype and send out the invites for these from your Microsoft Outlook account.  Please speak with your recruitment contact if you have any queries regarding this

Conference Call – If you have a conference call number you may wish to use this for your interviews, however we would not recommend you use this for interviewing external candidates.  It is preferable to use Zoom so that you can see the candidate and they can see you.