I had taken a risk by registering with a new recruitment agency, and had secured a locum position on the acute wards of a large hospital in South London about a month before moving to London; however in the week before starting, they had changed their mind and I was jobless. At the time I was snowboarding in Switzerland, so this new recruitment consultant sweet-talked his way into my resume, and promptly spammed the inboxes of every SLT manager in London shouting my praises trying to get me (and him) a contract. He certainly caught my ear when he told me I'd been 'headhunted' and that my name was being tossed around by London managers who were interested in having me on board.
A day later, he found me a job. I was told it was acute. I was told it was inpatients. Despite asking numerous times, I was assured that my criminal record check, ID, heck, even my surname and address, were not necessary before starting. I believed him. He even had the nerve to tell me I was worrying about nothing.
I turned up on day one.
