Event details
Join our upcoming webinar on enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) within your NHS workforce. Our industry and EDI experts will share their insights on how to create a diverse workforce that improves community care through varied perspectives, skills, and experiences. You will learn how to foster fair and efficient recruitment processes, ensuring a workplace that is inclusive, equitable, and reflects the diverse communities served by NHS trusts.
This webinar is designed to provide you with practical tools to revolutionize your approach to workforce challenges. Our experts will explore the impact of EDI on senior leaders and operational recruiting staff. You will gain insights into broadening candidate pools, nurturing applicants, eliminating bias, and meeting recruitment requirements while enhancing the candidate experience.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the best in the industry and take the first step towards creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. Register now to secure your spot!
Presenters
Samir Khelil
Sales Director
Oleeo
Samir is a public sector recruitment, workforce and DE&I expert and has worked in SaaS and HCM for over 20 years. He is passionate about innovating and pushing more of the diversity agenda into everyday recruitment using more big data and automation.
In recent years, Samir’s focus has been on the NHS, supporting Trusts to shape and get the absolute best out of their recruitment strategies and meet their recruitment and workforce goals. He understands the challenges NHS Trusts and organisations are facing when it comes to areas such as DE&I, talent shortages and the rate at which roles need to be filled, to name but a few.
As well as being a keen freerunner, Samir has an interest in psychology, looking at why people do what they do and how they make decisions. He has taken this passion and helped evolve Oleeo’s recruitment technology offering.
Penny Smee
Director of Resourcing & Retention
Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
Penny has worked within the NHS for the past 7 years as an attraction, recruitment, and retention specialist. During this time, she has held roles in Mental Health and Community, an Acute hospital and now an Integrated Care Board. For a number of years, Penny has been working on increasing the diversity of the NHS's workforce. As part of this work, she was Chair for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight inclusive recruitment group. Penny currently leads the South West region on the reduction in agency spend, as well as overseeing 3 academies in India that are training nurses to work in mental health in the UK and leading work for Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire on workforce efficiencies.
Usman Malik
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commisioning Support Unit
Trisha Spruce
Associate Director
UK & International Recruitment
Davina White
Event Manager
National Health Executive