Southend University Hospital interview questions

Very relaxed and welcoming. It felt like more of a chat than an intense interview. I was interviewed by two Band 8C's, The Head of Workforce & Resourcing and the Deputy to Associate Director of HR. They discussed things such as the merge of Basildon, Southend and Mid Essex Hospitals, current projects that were ongoing and the upcoming restructure.

Interview was very intense; I was on a chair in a very small office in front of 3 people, with no table between us - just sat opposite each other. Each interviewer took turns in asking questions; I would answer to their satisfaction, and they would move on with the next without comment. Each question asked was quite intense and required thought. The interviewers were kind, and we did have a little laugh at one point when talking about my upcoming holidays at the end of the interview. A question that bothered me was "imagine you're an object - now sell that object to us"; completely irrelevant to the role and likely put there to throw off the interviewee. There was then an excel & word test. This test wasn't of my knowledge of the programs so much, but rather my eye for detail.