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What it does
Broadly speaking, the RTP system manages the human resources of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals through the application, interview and training process.
There are two main parts of the system: the public application forms which are used by returning nurses, and the administration system which is used by NHS Trust and higher education institution (HEI) users.
The application form guides public users through the details required for them to apply for a particular training.
This interface is made as simple as possible by only asking the user for information when we know it's needed, thus making the process of applying very simple because you only have a few forms to fill in.
The Trust and HEI users use the system to, for example, select candidates for interview, to log whether the candidate was successful or not, or to ascertain whether they passed exams or interviews.
Candidates who fail the interview process can be invited to interview a second time; those who pass progress through the course and their details are updated accordingly.
The administration side
The system also allows Trust, HEI and strategic health authority (SHA) users to run a selection of reports and download candidate data to Excel. For example, they can record applicants by programme, by profession, by how many failed at interview stage, and so on.
Interestingly this was one of the areas to which we added during the project - not all of the reports were listed at the beginning, but because of the way we had build the system we were able to add new reports without serious effects on the rest of the project.
The RTP system also enforces some rules and restrictions:
- applicants are removed from the register after two fails
- once invited for one interview, applicants can't be invited to another at the same time
- if a trust invites someone to interview and the date of the interview is passed, then the trust is forced to update the interviewee's record before being able to do anything else on the system.
Many other very specific requirements were also implemented to ensure that the system fitted the application process, rather than the process having to change to fit the software.
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