Get your NHS application shortlisted

It is the part of an NHS application where you show how you meet the person specification: the qualifications, experience, skills and values the job needs. Shortlisters score it criterion by criterion, so it is usually the part that decides whether you get an interview. On NHS Jobs it is split into boxes, one for the essential and one for the desirable criteria under each heading; on Trac and most other sites it is one box called "supporting information".

Follow the form. On NHS Jobs each box takes up to 5,000 characters, which is plenty for a few short paragraphs per criterion. Where you write one statement, use the advert's limit if it gives one; without one, around one to two pages is common. Longer is not better: a shortlister wants to find your evidence for each criterion quickly.

It depends on the employer, so check the advert. Many NHS trusts publish guidance that accepts AI for structure, spelling and wording but rejects statements that are generated wholesale or misrepresent your experience, and they may ask about your examples at interview. That is how this tool works: it writes only from your CV and your answers, leaves missing details in [brackets] for you, and you read and check every word before you submit.

You can, but a general chatbot writes from whatever you give it: it does not find every criterion in the person specification for you, does not ask about the ones your CV does not show, miscounts characters against NHS Jobs' 5,000, and fills gaps with qualifications and results that never happened, which NHS employers turn down. This tool is built for shortlisting: it reads the advert, asks a question for each criterion your CV leaves out, pitches the evidence at the band, keeps each box within its limit and leaves anything you have not told it in [brackets] for you.

No. Every example, qualification, number and result comes from what you paste in or answer. Where a detail is missing, the statement says so in [brackets], for example [how many patients you cared for on a shift], and lists it as a question for you. If your CV shows no evidence for an essential criterion, the notes tell you what kind of example to look for instead of inventing one, and a desirable criterion you have no evidence for is left out.

Through what you did, not by listing them. Shortlisters look for a patient, relative or colleague you treated with compassion and respect, a time you spoke up about quality, a change that improved someone's care. If the trust has its own values, the advert usually names them: the tool reads them and shows them in your examples, and uses the six NHS Constitution values when the advert names none.

For one advert: the evidence for every criterion assessed at the application stage, box by box for NHS Jobs (with its character count) or as one statement within its word limit, pitched at the band, with notes on what to check. You then finish it with the AI: click a detail in [brackets] and answer in a word or two, or ask for any change in your own words, as often as you need. One payment, no subscription, and the link works for 30 days. Applying for several roles? The Job Search Pack includes every NHS supporting statement, with no payment per advert.

It is sent to our AI provider to write your statement and is not saved with it. We keep the advert and the statement written for it, so your link works. Leave out patients' names and anything that could identify them, as you would on the form itself. Payments are handled by our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy; we never see your card details.

Not as it stands. Each person specification lists different criteria, often in a different order, and shortlisters look for evidence of exactly those. Your best examples will come up again; paste the new advert and the tool writes to its criteria.