Southwest London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust (SWLSTG) have appointed Bramble Hub and our partner Twenty Seven Consulting (27C) to design a process for the recruitment of a Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 27C provides consultancy to public sector organisations to help them improve their recruitment processes, and thereby attract the best staff. SWLSTG has set out to find a transformative leader who will take them to the next level as an organisation, working with local communities to ensure that health inequalities are addressed.

Rebekah Ramsay, one of 27C’s founding consultants, says of the project: “We have designed an inclusive recruitment process aimed at ensuring we attract applications from a wide range of candidates with the required skills. We are using an assessment centre to ensure that candidates have an opportunity to showcase their skills to SWLSTG and that a variety of stakeholders and community groups are engaged in the selection process. We have also designed the process to take candidates through a more rewarding journey, to make sure that they are fully informed about the role, and help them determine whether it is the right fit for them”.

SWLSTG’s value statement states:

“We aspire to be a cost effective centre of excellence; a place where patients choose to be treated; where clinicians want to train and work; and where our stakeholders want to work with us.

We aim to help patients take back control of their lives, and to help them get opportunities, roles, relationships and activities that are important to them. By putting patients at the heart and excellence at the core of our business, we want to become the first choice for mental health for more and more people.

Our values outline how we treat our patients, shape how we work with our colleagues and are an important part of our continuing success in delivering high quality services. Our values underpin everything we do and summarise what we expect from every member of staff.”

For more information about 27C, see their partner page, or read our recent article about the company’s history.