Recruitment

Given the importance of good leadership to enhanced innovation, productivity and quality patient care, it makes sense to get recruitment decisions right. GatenbySanderson's leadership assessment package presents an opportunity for you to put shortlisted candidates through their paces - however senior they are.

All too often, candidates trade on their professional expertise, track record or reputation, without having their leadership skills and personal qualities thoroughly tested. Our experienced assessment team can help you to get critical appointments right. By examining each individual's personal qualities in real depth, we can present you with a well rounded, objective view on each candidate.  Our team regularly assesses candidates at senior levels and we understand the challenges of leading in the NHS. The team therefore brings the ability to benchmark your shortlist against other senior level candidates in the marketplace.

We understand that senior candidates are busy people, therefore our assessment process is constructed to take sufficient rather than excessive time and can be run in a flexible way to suit their diaries. Asking candidates to participate in a thorough assessment process will enhance their view of your organisation, it gives them an opportunity to understand more about the challenges of the role and leaves them feeling that your organisation has taken the recruitment seriously, irrespective of the outcome.  Where you are trying to attract candidates from outside the NHS, a thorough assessment of leadership will enable you to really understand the transferable skills these candidate bring, without being influenced by their lack of knowledge or experience in the NHS.

We can work alongside your internal HR team to provide additional support and expertise or extra resources when they're stretched. Alternatively, we can develop and manage an assessment process on your behalf and feed back the results to you, freeing up your HR team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives. If you are using GatenbySanderson's search services, our assessment process can be added to our expertise in sourcing and identifying candidates. In short, we can prepare an assessment process to suit your needs or you can make use of our standard health leadership assessment package. 

Contact a member of our team for further details.