West London NHS Trust

<p>OET is an English language test that has been designed to assess candidates’ ability to communicate effectively in the healthcare workplace and to ensure they can deliver high quality and safe carein English-speaking healthcare environments.</p> <p>The test has been developed specifically for 12 different healthcare professions and test tasks replicate real communication scenarios from the workplace. </p> <p>Governments and education institutions throughout the world, including the NMC and GMC, rely on OET to help them select healthcare professionals who can provide high quality and safe patient care.</p> <p><br /></p>

Overseas nurses strengthen our domestic workforce, bringing a wealth of experience and diversity that requires significant personal and financial investment. This award aims to recognise an organisation’s strategic approach to the improvement of overseas nurses’ and midwives’ experience of recruitment to the UK. Judges will consider the use of innovative advertising, marketing campaigns and events to recruit nurses and midwives. The panel will look at the speed of the recruitment process, communication with candidates along the way and the assessment day/interview experience plus the onboarding/induction process.