diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_7_0/3251-terminology-reindexing-job-is-never-triggered.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_7_0/3251-terminology-reindexing-job-is-never-triggered.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f337254e07a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_7_0/3251-terminology-reindexing-job-is-never-triggered.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+type: fix
+title: "Terminology reindexing job was launching the wrong process, so terminology reindexing was never
+   launched. This has been fixed."
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImpl.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImpl.java
index 012afcf2420..07246061972 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImpl.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImpl.java
@@ -161,11 +161,11 @@ public class TermReindexingSvcImpl implements ITermReindexingSvc {
 
 	public static class Job implements HapiJob {
 		@Autowired
-		private ITermDeferredStorageSvc myTerminologySvc;
+		private ITermReindexingSvc myTermReindexingSvc;
 
 		@Override
 		public void execute(JobExecutionContext theContext) {
-			myTerminologySvc.saveDeferred();
+			myTermReindexingSvc.processReindexing();
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImplTest.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImplTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bf66f7ace42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/term/TermReindexingSvcImplTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.term;
+
+import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.term.api.ITermReindexingSvc;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
+import org.mockito.Mock;
+import org.mockito.junit.jupiter.MockitoExtension;
+import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
+import org.springframework.test.util.ReflectionTestUtils;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.atLeastOnce;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
+
+@ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class)
+class TermReindexingSvcImplTest {
+
+	@Mock JobExecutionContext myJobExecutionContext;
+	@Mock ITermReindexingSvc jobReindexingSvc;
+
+
+	@Test
+	void validateReindexingJobExecutesReindexing() {
+		TermReindexingSvcImpl.Job innerJob = new TermReindexingSvcImpl.Job();
+
+		// validates that inner Job has an myTermReindexingSvc field of class ITermReindexingSvc
+		try {
+			ReflectionTestUtils.setField(innerJob, "myTermReindexingSvc", jobReindexingSvc);
+		} catch (Exception theE) {
+			fail("ITermReindexingSvc implementation inner Job doesn't have a 'myTermReindexingSvc' property");
+		}
+
+		innerJob.execute(myJobExecutionContext);
+
+		// validates that inner Job calls myTermReindexingSvc.processReindexing when executed
+		verify(jobReindexingSvc, atLeastOnce()).processReindexing();
+	}
+
+}