Healthcare

Odgers Berndtson is the UK’s leading healthcare executive search firm.  We are the only executive search business that works across the full breadth of the healthcare sector supporting local, regional, national and international public and private healthcare organisations.  Our 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 placing exceptionally talented leaders in healthcare organisations and we work with a broad and diverse range of healthcare clients nationally and internationally and across the public and private sectors including:

• NHS healthcare providers
• Private healthcare providers including private equity backed organisations
• Care home providers 
• Commissioners including Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Area Teams
• Foundation Trusts 
• Health charities and policy think tanks 
• Government 
• National healthcare organisations and arm’s length bodies
• Sector regulators
• Academic Health Science Centres 
• Health education including medical schools and health faculties
• Research bodies including Biomedical Research Centres
• Professional and membership bodies 
• Trade unions
• International healthcare organisations 

We operate across all functional areas with particular focus at Chair, Chief Executive/Managing Director, 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, nursing and research 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. 

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 
• 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 onto 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/Managing Director 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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