Healthcare

Healthcare executive search helps health organisations to recruit senior candidates with the capability to drive the delivery of improved patient outcomes in a fast-moving and increasingly complex environment. Working across both commercial and NHS healthcare, Odgers Berndtson is the UK’s leading healthcare executive search firm.  This market leading position has been achieved because of the strength of our outcomes and our commitment to leadership development in healthcare. 

We have a proven track record in healthcare executive search, placing exceptionally talented leaders in organisations across the full range of organisations including:

  • NHS healthcare providers
  • Private and third sector healthcare providers
  • Commissioners
  • Foundation Trusts
  • Health charities and policy think tanks
  • Government
  • Arm’s length bodies and regulators
  • Professional and membership bodies
  • Trade unions
  • Health education, including medical schools and health faculties

We operate across all functional areas with particular focus at Chair, Chief Executive, Non-Executive and Director level. We are one of the few healthcare executive search firms also experienced in finding and placing talented professionals in the areas of finance, HR, strategy, policy, communications and public affairs, IM&T, as well as a range of medical, clinical and nursing roles.

As well as healthcare recruitment for senior appointments, we also offer a range of other healthcare recruitment solutions, particularly Interim Management  and middle management appointments through Berwick Partners. Our assessment team also offers a wide range of assessment solutions. Our integrated Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice is amongst the most accomplished in the business, working alongside our functional experts to fill senior healthcare positions in the UK and abroad. 

We have particular expertise in:

  • Healthcare executive search for highly visible senior executive and non executive leadership roles that have profile nationally, regionally or locally within their community
  • Recruiting to challenging and hard to fill senior leadership roles where ordinary recruitment solutions are unlikely to be successful
  • Recruiting to highly specialist roles including those with a clinical, academic or research remit
  • Working tenaciously with candidates, tapping them on the shoulder, engaging their interest and prising them out of their current organisation when they had not been considering a move
  • Keeping in touch and broadening our networks continuously so we know the rising stars of the future (for more information seeleadership development )
  • Working with candidates from outside the healthcare space who are keen to obtain a role in the healthcare sector   

We are accredited as a preferred provider of healthcare executive search, selection and assessment services to NHS organisations by our acceptance on to the Cabinet Office framework agreement for Executive Search, where we achieved a ranking of 1st amongst all bidders for all areas.  Our procedures conform to OCPA and OCSC standards.

To discuss your healthcare recruitment needs, please contact Carmel Gibbons on +44 207 529 3081.

Supporting Leadership Development

We are unique among healthcare executive search firms in providing a diverse range of leadership support services including:

  • Career coaching service for senior healthcare leaders
  • Project Bright Light, identifying and supporting future CEOs in the healthcare sector
  • Professional networks in the healthcare space for developing leaders and candidates who make the move into the healthcare sector from outside the industry.    
  • Development of talent pools from outside the NHS that are transferable – we have extensive contact with candidates with specialist skills in increasing productivity and driving efficiency, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, commissioning and contract management and procurement. 
  • Market intelligence including remuneration bench-marks and fact-sheets on key policy areas
  • We regularly organise events and seminars for professionals with the potential to move into more challenging leadership roles, whether at Executive Director or CEO level.

We also run seminars for professionals who would like to find out more about becoming a Non Executive Director for an NHS organisation.

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Leadership Events

We regularly organise events and seminars for professionals with the potential to move into more challenging leadership roles, whether at Executive Director or CEO level.

We also run seminars for professionals who would like to find out more about becoming a Non Executive Director for an NHS organisation.

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Representative Assignments

  • Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust - Chief Executive, Medical Director, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Nursing, Director of People and Development
  • Bupa Commissioning - Programme Directors and Business Development Roles
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 6 Non Executive Directors
  • Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust - Chair and Non Executive Directors (Finance, Communications, Commercial)
  • Capita Secretarial Services - Head of Healthcare
  • Care Principles Ltd - Director of Operations
  • Department of Health - Members, National Leadership Council, Cooperation & Competition Panel Chair and Members, Director of NHS Communications, Medical Director NHS, National Director for Learning Disabilities, Director of Medical Education, Director of Strategy
  • General Healthcare Group/BMI - Regional Directors and Medical Director
  • General Medical Council - Chief Executive
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust - Chair, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer
  • Health Foundation - Director of Clinical Quality, Director of Improvement Programmes and Director of Finance and Administration
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - Chief Executive and Managing Director
  • King's College London - Professor of Interventional Cardiology
  • London Ambulance Service - Chair
  • Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust - Chief Executive, COO, Director of Nursing, Medical Director
  • Medical Research Council - Deputy Chief Executive, Director of Strategy
  • NHS Blood and Transplant - Chair, Non Executive Directors, Chief Executive and Chief Finance Officer
  • NHS Devon - Chief Executive
  • NHS East Midlands - Medical Director, Director of Equality
  • NHS Hampshire - Chief Executive and Executive Roles
  • NHS South East Coast - Director of Commissioning, Medical Director
  • NHS Wales - Chief Executives - Local Health Boards, Finance Director
  • Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust - Chief Executive, Director of Human Resources
  • Northern Ireland Regional Health and Social Care Board - Chief Executive
  • Nuffield Trust - Chair, Chief Executive, Trustees
  • Oxford Biomedical Research Centre - Research Fellows
  • Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust - Director of Nursing, Director of HR, Company Secretary
  • Royal College of Nursing - General Secretary, Director of HR, Director of Corporate Resources, Director Scotland, Director Northern Ireland
  • Royal College of Surgeons - Chief Executive
  • Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability - Chief Executive, Director of the Institute of Neuro-palliative Rehabilitation
  • Salisbury Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Chief Executive and Non Executive Directors
  • UK Specialist Hospitals - General Manager Shepton Mallet ISTC
  • University College London - Dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Medicine
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - UCL Partners Managing Director, Medical Director, Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Head of Midwifery
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - Chief Executive and Director of HR
  • University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust - Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Business Development, Director of Communications and Marketing, Director of HR
  • Westminster PCT - Chief Executive

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Christopher Hamilton London
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Angela McDermottroe Leeds
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Chris Stanford London
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Carmel Gibbons

Carmel Gibbons
Head of Healthcare London

Carmel Gibbons is Head of the Healthcare Practice. Her work focuses mainly on senior appointments...

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Chris Stanford

Chris Stanford
Head of Global Healthcare Practice London

Chris Stanford is Head of the Global Healthcare Practice handling senior executive and...

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