According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, difficulties regarding the lack of promised graduate employment have emerged.
The HSE have recently reiterated their policy of unwavering commitment to offer all students graduating this year a permanent position.
However, it has emerged that difficulties have been encountered at a local level in hospitals around the country including Letterkenny, Sligo, and Galway, as they have been only been offering graduates short term contracts.
The INMO said “We also highlighted the reality that while the HSE was sending out conflicting messages these young professionals are being offered, and are accepting, posts elsewhere such as the United Kingdom.”
“The HSE stressed it was actively working to ensure a consistent approach, on this matter, and that we would see evidence of this in the next week/two weeks. Members, particularly our graduating members, are asked to keep the INMO advised of all offers of work, made to them, so that we can ensure all employers are offering permanent posts.”
