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The UK health departments have been working with trainee doctors and other stakeholders to put in place an offers process allowing applicants to receive all their training offers electronically.  The process for making offers for specialty training posts will co-ordinate all first offers across all specialties so that applicants can accept, reject or hold an offer.

 

Accessing the UK Offers System

This year all deaneries and specialties will be using the UK Offers System and will make all training programme offers through this system. If you apply for a training post you may be sent a link to log in to the UK Offers System within 14 days of the national closing date for applications asking you to log in, verify your identity and check your contact (email) details. You will need to do this within 14 days of receiving the email. Make sure that you confirm an email address that you will have regular access to, as all offers will be made through the e-mail address you give.

To access the UK Offers System please go to:

https://ukoffers.org.uk/Login.aspx

 

Please note that candidate log in details will be sent to you between 18^th and 19^th December 2012.  

If you have forgotten your password for the UK Offers System, you can ask for a password reminder through the UK Offers homepage.

 

Selecting Preferences (deanery or specific programmes within a deanery)

During the application process, you will be asked to specify your preferences. Depending on the specialty you have applied to, a preference may mean a deanery or it may refer to specific programmes available at a deanery that you preferenced in your initial application. 

You will have the facility, via your applicant home page, to view a table showing the different preferences that are available to you. Full instructions on how to select and confirm preferences will be available on the preference page.

Your preferences along with your final rank are used to determine which offer, if any, you receive. If you are deemed to be appointable after interview, then you may be made an offer of your highest available preference.  The higher you are ranked at interview, the more likely you are to be offered your preference, although all offers are subject to eligibility and post availability.  

If you are not prepared to accept an offer of training in a certain deanery, then you should not rank it.

By ranking a preference (deanery or specific programmes within a deanery), you are stating that you would be prepared to undertake a training programme in that area, if none of your other preferences are available to you. It is important that you think carefully about this choice when applying for posts.

 

Interview panels will not have access to your preferences.

Please read the programme descriptions carefully, paying close attention to the deanery in which the post is actually located as this may not be within the deanery that manages the recruitment to the post.

 

Receiving an Offer on the UK Offers System

If you receive an offer through the UK Offers System, you will be able to accept, reject or hold the offer until a set date. This date will be clearly identified if you receive an offer. You will have 48 hours from the time your offer is made, including weekends and bank holidays, to decide whether to accept, reject or hold it. By responding, you accept certain conditions. Please note that you may only hold one offer. Selecting 'Hold' on a new offer from another specialty will release your previously held offer.

 

IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO YOUR OFFER WITHIN 48 HOURS, WE WILL INTERPRET THIS AS MEANING YOU HAVE REJECTED THE OFFER AND IT WILL BE OFFERED TO ANOTHER APPLICANT.

 

However, if you intend to reject an offer, please do so as soon as possible as this will allow the offer to be made to another applicant. If you were not offered a post in the initial release of offers, this does not mean you will not be offered one later on, as offers are recycled if other applicants reject them.

 

Upgrading

If you receive an offer through the UK Offers System you will automatically receive upgrades if you accept or hold an offer AND opt in for upgrades.  This means that should a higher ranked preference become available in a Unit of Application (Deanery) where you have held or accepted an offer, you will be automatically upgraded to this offer with no option to revert to your original offer.

You can opt out of upgrades at any point and this option is on your candidate home screen. If you chose to accept or hold your offer with upgrades, then you will be directed to an additional page, which shows you all your higher preferences. You will be able to edit your higher preferences at this point by opting out of ones you are no longer interested in.

Upgrading will continue until 14 March 2013 for CT/ST1 core and run-through training posts and 27 May 2013 for CT2/ST3 higher specialty training posts and re-advertised CT/ST1 posts. 

 

Allocation to Rotations & Pre-employment Checks

If you accept an offer you will be contacted by the relevant Deanery / Training Programme Director (TPD) to discuss the details of your programme further, and to determine your first rotation. All offers are subject to pre-employment checks.

 

What happens if I don't secure a place on a training programme?

 

Clearing

Dependent on the specialty and the number of posts left at the end of the offer process, a clearing process of matching remaining candidates to available posts will be undertaken. You will have the option to re-preference the remaining posts and the offers will then be made in rank order if you are eligible. The relevant college or deanery will be in contact to discuss clearing options.

 

Advice and Support

You can seek career advice and support from your Postgraduate Dean and Clinical Educational Supervisor. There may also be further employment opportunities as the year progresses and as current trainees obtain their certificate of completion of training, go on maternity leave or out of programme for clinical/research experience.

 

Please contact the relevant Deanery or College for your application(s) if you have any issue with the UK Offers System.

The FAQs UK Offers System will help answer any questions you may have about the UK Offers System.

 

For up to date information on the application and selection process for Specialty Training in 2013, please download the Applicant Guide 2013 using the link below.

Applicant Guide 2013