Scots nurses 'thrown on scrapheap' after graduating to find no available jobs

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Student paediatric nurses have been “thrown on the scrapheap” after graduating, it has been claimed.Graduates from Glasgow Caledonian University were interviewed for roles in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde but were told no jobs were available.One member of staff at the Royal Hospital for Children said: “These nurses have been thrown on the scrapheap.“How can this be right?

Three years of study and countless thousands of pounds to train them and now they can’t even get jobs to fulfill the required hours for their nursing registration.”As part of the application process, students had to write 2000 words, go to multiple open days then attend an interview while in the middle of exam.But at the weekend they were finally given letters – only to find there were no jobs available.One student said: “I’m a newly qualified paediatric nurse.

We all applied for our GG&C NNQ posts in April, interviewed May/June. We were told most were successful in our interviews and were ‘deemed appointable’ to a job but there were just no jobs to give us.“So not a single paediatric nurse in GGC got a job this year.

Why would they think it acceptable to interview for a job that does not exist?”It is estimated it costs at least £57,000 to train one nurse over three years, taking into account course fees and bursaries.Nurses who have graduated have a short placement which takes them to September when they would normally begin full-time jobs.But this year there are no jobs.Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: “The SNP must come clean about why jobs seem to have been revoked, ensure these nurses are not abandoned and set out a real plan to make sure there are safe staffing levels across our NHS.” One mum told of her daughter’s experience