Assessing and selecting clinical leaders

With the increased focus on developing clinical leaders, the challenge of selecting the right clinicians for the right leadership roles is considerable. More and more clinicians now aspire to roles that are key to the running of healthcare organisations. Only some of them will have the right attributes, skills and experience to equip them for these demanding roles.

Edgecumbe offers a full occupational psychology consultancy service to help select clinicians for leadership and executive posts.

Who uses our service?

• Hospital Trusts
• Primary Care Trusts
• Deaneries
• Royal Colleges
• National Health Service organisations

Examples of posts for which we have assessed candidates:

• Divisional Directors of Academic Health Science Centres
• Heads of Operations
• Head of Nursing
• Head of Midwifery
• Director of Human Resources
• GP Partners
• Senior staff for GP Practices (e.g. Practice Managers)

What is the service we offer?

• Advising on the competencies required for the post (particularly the non-technical) and how to incorporate these into the job and person specifications
• Designing the interview questions to ensure that critical competencies are covered and fully explored
• Conducting or contributing to the interviews
• Writing assessment reports for each candidate with a detailed summary of strengths, limitations and areas that will need further development
• Advising on and assisting with the use of psychometric testing
• Preparing questions for the interview panel based on the psychometric profiles
• Assisting the interview panel to make robust decisions about selection

The benefits of using this service

• Assurance of best practice using an evidence-based process
• External professional validation of the process and decisions
• Confidence that the right competencies are being covered in a fair and robust manner
• Insights about how best to work with a candidate and deploy their strengths, as well as any risks associated with appointing them, and how to manage these.