In this podcast, we meet Steve Keyes and Lisa Michelangeli, and they tell us what they have been doing to introduce values based recruitment practices at Bradford District Care Trust.

In a series of podcasts, NHS Employers talks to organisations who have implemented recruitment policies and practices which allow them to test candidates for their values, attitudes and behaviours. We find out what they have been doing, and what impact it is having for their staff, service and patients. In this episode Hanna Murphy (NHS Employers) meets Jo Durkin (Oxford University Hospitals) about how they have changed their interviews to assess people’s values.

In a series of podcasts, NHS Employers talks to organisations who have implemented recruitment policies and practices which allow them to test candidates for their values, attitudes and behaviours. We find out what they have been doing, and what impact it is having for their staff, service and patients. In this episode Lydia Larcum (York Teaching Hospitals) tells Hanna Murphy (NHS Employers) how they are assessing prospective support and senior staff for their values.

Rachel Dean, Programme Lead for healthcare science & international recruitment at NHS Employers meets Gill Crankshaw, Acting General Manager, Dorothy Walmsley, Pathology Training and Education Manager and apprentice Mark Bentley from the Royal Preston Hospital to discuss the benefits of apprenticeships and finds out what it is like to be an apprentice working in a pathology lab.

Our second Do OD pODcast tells the story of one organisation, Bradford District Care Trust, and how they have put Organisational Development at the heart of their business and patients at the heart of everything they do. It’s a fascinating story that involves opera singers, cheerleaders and working women. It’s a story about the art of the possible. Find out more and listen to the podcast.

We talk to Gail Adams, Head of Nursing UNISON and Kevin McAleese CBE, Chair for NHS Employers about the working longer review - call for evidence which launched on 24 June 2013.

The Working Longer Review group will be launching a national call for evidence from the 24 June until 5 September 2013. Find out more about the call for evidence and what kind of evidence could be submitted.

Dean Royles talks to Niall Dickson, chief executive and registrar of the General Medical Council, about the findings of the National Training Survey 2013 and its implications for employers.

Kelvin Cheatle from Capsticks talks about pay progression and appraisals from a practical perspective for NHS organisations.

Andrew Davidson from Capsticks talks about the legal challenges around pay progression and appraisals for NHS organisations.