Healthcare People

Passionate about people: what drives engagement in the flexible healthcare workforce?

This episode explores what motivates healthcare professionals to join the NHS Professionals Bank and the steps we are taking to maximise positive engagement with our 100,000+ Bank Members in the short, medium and long-term. Featuring Mel Simmonds, Director of Bank Member Engagement at NHS Professionals. Recorded May 2023 at Hertfordshire Podcast Studio. "You have to have multiple ways of understanding and motivating your workforce and recognize that we're not all the same, and we're all individuals and treat people as individuals. For us at NHS Professionals, we've created a very much multi-faceted engagement strategy because we recognize that what is appropriate and a driver for one, is completely different for somebody else."

Looking after locums: why doctors locum and how to support them

NHS Professionals works with more than 300 locum doctors across the country – but why do doctors choose to locum and what kinds of support do they need from us and the trusts they work in? Former emergency care GP and NHS Professionals Medical Director Dr Helen McGill shares insights from her diverse career in medicine. Recorded April 2023 at Hertfordshire Podcast Studio.

Nurses and midwives: retaining the current workforce and recruiting a new generation

In this episode we explore we how we can support nurses and midwives to enjoy long, healthy and flexible careers in care and look at new and more innovative routes into the profession. Featuring former consultant critical care nurse Juliette Cosgrove, Chief Nurse and Director of Clinical Governance at NHS Professionals. Recorded April 2023 at Hertfordshire Podcast Studio.

Integrated care systems and workforce collaboration

What workforce opportunities do integrated care systems create? How can mechanisms such as shared staff banks enable new and effective cross-system people collaborations? We explore the issues with Jon Waters, Client Solutions Director at NHS Professionals. “It's about getting it right for your workforce. There is such pressure on the NHS and broader health care workforce at the moment that offering that workforce to be deployed in a way that works for them, is a central question that will help inform better retention, engagement and patient output and therefore better results for a local healthcare body and a broader integrated care system.” Recorded January 2023 in Manchester with support from ⁠Bruntwood.⁠

International recruitment and diversifying the workforce

We look at the NHS's international nursing and midwifery workforce and talk ethics, what great pastoral care looks like and the inspiring Displaced Talent Programme for skilled refugees. With Hadrien Kieffer, NHS Professionals’ Director of International Recruitment. “It’s important to have a diverse workforce within any organisation, not just for the NHS, because it brings more skills and different knowledge. And that is key because then people can learn from each other.” Recorded February 2023 in Manchester with support from ⁠Bruntwood.⁠