CEO vacancy job description and advertising 2019/2020

Summary

The Department of Health and Social Care responded to a request for information regarding a 2019/2020 CEO vacancy, NHS secondment pools, and work permit outsourcing by stating the information is not held.

Key Facts

• The Department of Health and Social Care does not hold the requested information regarding the CEO vacancy job description and recruitment strategy.
• Chief Officer appointments are coordinated by the Cabinet Office, Office of Human Resources, and the Public Service Commission, not the individual department.
• Manx Care is identified as the Statutory Board responsible for its own recruitment of clinical and professional medical staff.
• Queries regarding work permit compliance outsourcing to HM AG Chambers should be directed to the Cabinet Office or Attorney General's Chambers.
• The authority recommends the requester contact other departments for the specific information sought.

Data Disclosed

• 3974445
• 2019/2020
• 2024-07-11
• 2024-08-08
• IM1 1AE
• Freedom of Information Act 2015

Exemptions Cited

• Information not held

Original Request

Please supply all information related to the CEO vacancy job description and advertising channels/dates and recruitment strategy. Please supply all information related to engagement with and related to a so called perhaps centralised NHS secondment pool intended to facilitate professional development or to avoid redundancy with all or some employees available at no cost to the Isle of Man Government. Please supply all information related to the decision to outsource work permit compliance to HM AG Chambers and not to Cabinet Office OHR as confirmed by a Cabinet Office OHR senior employee.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Chief Officer: Paul Richardson Freedom of Information Team First Floor Belgravia House Circular Road Douglas IM1 1AE

Our ref: 3974445 8 August 2024

Dear ###

We write further to your request received 11 July 2024, which states:

"[1] Please supply all information related to the CEO vacancy job description and advertising channels/dates and recruitment strategy.

[2] Please supply all information related to engagement with and related to a so called perhaps centralised NHS secondment pool intended to facilitate professional development or to avoid redundancy with all or some employees available at no cost to the Isle of Man Government.

[3] Please supply all information related to the decision to outsource work permit compliance to HM AG Chambers and not to Cabinet Office OHR as confirmed by a Cabinet Office OHR senior employee."

For the purposes of clarity, we have applied the numbers [1], [2] and [3] to your above query in order to better formulate our response.

[1] While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the information that you have requested.

To provide you with advice and assistance, Executive appointments are not processed in the same way as other Civil Service roles in a given Department. Recruitment to a role within a Department requires the Hiring Manager, which is typically the direct line manager for the role being recruited, to coordinate the recruitment process and chair the interview panel.

The appointment of a Department’s Chief Officer, the highest role within a Department, is processed by the Cabinet Office – Office of Human Resources, the Office of the Chief Executive of the Isle of Man Government and the Public Service Commission.

Please see the Recruitment Principles and Policy, page three specifies that Chief Officer appointments are coordinated by the Chair of the Public Service Commission, the Chief

Executive Officer of the Isle of Man Government, the Minister of the Department and the Executive Director of Office of Human Resources.

We recommend that you refer your query to the Cabinet Office, Office of Human Resources who may be able to assist you.

[2] While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the information that you have requested.

The context of your request, and the nature of this query referring to a “NHS secondment pool”, with the intention of facilitating professional development and avoiding redundancy, is indicative that you are referring to the previous Chief Officer appointment in 2019/2020, or possibly of clinical/professional medical staff.

If referring to the former, we would recommend you contact the Cabinet Office, Office of Human Resources as indicated in our response to query 1 above.

If referring to the latter, Manx Care is responsible for delivery of health and social care services. As Manx Care is a Statutory Board, it manages its own recruitment of staff and so such an arrangement would be best queried with Manx Care.

[3] While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the information that you have requested.

The nature of this query refers to Cabinet Office – OHR policy, or a transfer of function to the Attorney General’s Chambers, therefore we recommend that you refer your query to the Cabinet Office, Office of Human Resources, or the Attorney General’s Chambers who may be able to assist you.

Please quote the reference number 3974445 in any future communications.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your freedom of information request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by completing a complaint form and submitting it electronically or by delivery/post.

An electronic version of our complaint form can be found by going to our website at https://services.gov.im/freedom-of-information/Review . If you would like a paper version of our complaint form to be sent to you by post, please contact me and I will be happy to arrange for this. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made as soon as practicable. We will respond as soon as the review has been concluded.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner for a decision on; 1. Whether we have responded to your request for information in accordance with Part 2 of the Freedom of Information Act 2015; or

1. Whether we are justified in refusing to give you the information requested.
   In response to an application for review, the Information Commissioner may, at any time, attempt to resolve a matter by negotiation, conciliation, mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution and will have regard to any outcome of this in making any subsequent decision. More detailed information on your right to a review can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at www.inforights.im. Should you have any queries concerning this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Further information about freedom of information requests can be found at www.gov.im/foi.

I will now close your request as of this date.