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Established in 2001, NHS Professionals are experts at putting people in places to care within NHS Trusts and the wider healthcare system in England.  We now work with more than 140 NHS Trusts and other healthcare organisations. In 2023/24, our award-winning staffing solutions displaced £688M of external agency spend across the NHS, delivering over 40 million of hours of patient care. 

Uniquely owned by the Department of Health and Social Care, our vision is a well-staffed NHS, where healthcare professionals have the opportunity to work flexibly, and Trusts are empowered to reduce their reliance on external recruitment organisations.  Our mission is to become the workforce partner of choice to the NHS, creating opportunities for flexible workers to become valued NHS Professionals Bank Members, working to NHS-assured standards.    

To support staffing levels and workforce planning, our teams use specialist healthcare knowledge to deliver fully bespoke recruitment solutions, ranging from local shift cover through to national and international workforce campaigns. Specialisms on offer include: nurses and midwives, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, personal social services and non-clinical. Our services enable significant reinvestment into the wider healthcare economy, in addition to associated workforce efficiencies and savings made by individual NHS Trusts.  

In addition, our National Bank service is designed to help NHS Trusts reduce agency spend through targeted migration and our NHSP Academy works to help provide education and training opportunities for healthcare professionals at every level, further supporting high quality patient care.    

www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk

Conference reception sponsor

At Think Learning, we’re passionate about transforming your learning experience. Our unique products and plug-ins, combined with expert guidance, ensure you harness the full potential of Totara LMS. Join us on this journey to elevate your training and development programs, and watch your organisation thrive!

www.think-learning.com

Learning Lab sponsor

Patchwork Health is on a mission to make truly effective and sustainable working a reality for all healthcare professionals. Their fully integrated workforce planning and management solution improves capacity planning and workforce deployment, to reduce spend, boost productivity and improve staff wellbeing – ultimately supporting patient outcomes. Founded by clinicians, co-created with the NHS and staffed by a team of healthcare veterans, their end-to-end solution has been embraced by over 200 healthcare organisations and 100,000 clinicians, saving £120 million and counting in workforce costs.

www.patchwork.health

Learning Lab sponsor

NHS Shared Business Services simplify HR, payroll, and pensions with seamless, automated solutions. Designed to free NHS HR teams from admin-heavy tasks, our services ensure accuracy and compliance, and deliver real-time insights. By reducing complexity, we give HR teams back valuable time to focus on engagement, retention, and strategic workforce planning — creating a more efficient, satisfied, and future-ready NHS workforce, and enhancing patient care

www.sbs.nhs.uk

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When you’re making critical hires, candidate vetting shouldn’t slow you down.

Amiqus helps healthcare recruitment teams move from conditional to unconditional offers in hours or days.

Trusted by NHS trusts and health providers across the UK, Amiqus enables fast, trusted, and accurate onboarding.

• Reduce time to check: cut pre-employment screening time to just 2 days
• Onboard staff faster: expedite onboarding by up to 80%
• Stay flexible under pressure: maintain hiring momentum during high-volume periods
• Ensure patient safety: mitigate risks with processes that meet NHS Employment Check Standards

www.amiqus.co

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 CaseworkER by Conformity Software is a simple to use cloud-based HR case management system, designed for NHS HR professionals, line managers and senior stakeholders. The system

drives efficiencies, provides assurance, ensures compliance with HR policies, resulting in an elevated HR service to all employees.

www.conformitysoftware.com

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The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is the professional body for finance staff working in healthcare. For 75 years, it has provided independent and objective advice to its members and the wider healthcare community. It is a charitable organisation that promotes best practice and innovation in financial management and governance across the UK health economy through its local and national networks. Its aim is to fully represent the whole healthcare finance function and provide accessible and personalised member services that are fit for the future.

 www.hfma.org.uk/

 

 

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Healthcare’s leading recruitment partner

HSJ is uniquely positioned, right at the heart of the NHS, to provide recruiters with a platform to connect with senior healthcare professionals and deliver the right candidates.

We work in partnership with the NHS and recruiters to build effective advertising solutions that reach both active and passive candidates and pinpoint the best talent.

Engaging healthcare leaders across all disciplines, from commissioning and nursing through to operations and patient safety, whatever your vacancy, HSJ Jobs reaches the right candidates.

Contact the recruitment team today to discuss our advertising packages.

jennifer.adger@hsjinformation.co.uk 020 3510 0312

 

 

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SARD believes that the NHS deserves more than just good intentions, but real, tangible outcomes.

SARD is about working alongside NHS teams to help make departments work better, people feel heard, and services run smoother.

We listen, we understand, and we roll up our sleeves to work alongside trusts, not just to tick boxes, but to truly fix the NHS from the inside out.

From job planning and workforce optimisation to bespoke training and strategic support, we’re here to help create a future where NHS staff are empowered, services make sense, and patients always come first. 

www.sardjv.co.uk

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Castlefield Recruitment is a leading recruitment partner to Public Sector organisations, providing specialist recruitment services on a permanent, contract and interim basis and we work with NHS organisations across the UK. Within Human Resources and Organisational Development we recruit roles from entry level up to executive board level. We are delighted to offer HPMA member organisations a discount on CCS framework fees, please contact Richard Haggarty at Castlefield Recruitment for more details.

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Need your team to perform at their very best? Discover a truly remarkable approach to upskilling your managers and measuring the impact on their skills. Who are we? We are Upskill People, innovators in online learning you can rely on. For 30 years we’ve been creating courses that don’t just train your people, but transform them. Ready to raise your expectations of what you can achieve? Let’s talk.

www.upskillpeople.com

 

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Jobtrain is a leading-edge recruitment platform designed to help you manage the sourcing, assessment and hiring of the best people with minimum effort and maximum efficiency.

Our platform is a fully‑featured recruitment platform built especially for the NHS as an alternative for NHS Jobs and Trac.

We’re trusted by over 30 NHS organisations across England and Scotland as well as many other clients across Care, Government, Local Government and the Private Sector too.

It enables you to manage the whole hiring process in one place: from requesting a vacancy, advertising and engagement, assessment, all the way through to onboarding and compliance and integrated with ESR in real-time.

Contact: giles@jobtrain.co.uk

www.jobtrain.co.uk 

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Credentially is an AI-powered credentialling and compliance platform built specifically for healthcare. It automates the time-consuming processes of document collection, verification, onboarding, and monitoring, helping organisations hire clinicians faster, stay continuously compliant, and reduce administrative burden. Trusted by healthcare providers worldwide, Credentially has onboarded more than 150,000 clinicians through its secure, digital-first workflow.  By connecting automation, data, and ongoing monitoring in one system, Credentially transforms workforce management from a manual bottleneck into a seamless, scalable process, empowering healthcare organisations to focus on delivering safe, high-quality patient care.

www.credentially.io

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Social Partnership Forum brings together NHS Employers, NHS trade unions, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care. Its role is to discuss, debate and involve partners in the development and implementation of policy that has implications for the NHS workforce. Effective partnership working brings important benefits for both employers and staff and can have a positive influence on the patient experience.  Evidence demonstrates that the best performing organisations have staff who are engaged with their employer and motivated by the work they do.

www.socialpartnershipforum.org

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Hornbill is a market leader in Enterprise Service Management, partnering with leading organisations across the UK— including PLCs, public sector and more than 100 NHS entities.

 Our platform empowers organisations to transform their employee experiences by removing friction from everyday employee service requests across IT, Facilities, and HR. Through intelligent automation that’s codeless to configure, we help clients eliminate up to 90% of manual effort, enabling teams to focus on higher-value work.

 With intuitive self-service, adaptable workflows, and seamless integration into core business systems such as ESR, Hornbill ensures data accuracy, operational efficiency, and continuous service innovation—making transformation not just achievable, but effortless.

 

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Our employment law team are trusted advisers to healthcare clients across the country including; NHS Trusts, CCGs, ICBs and primary care organisations. Each member of the team is specifically trained to advise the public healthcare sector. They understand the challenges that you face and use that knowledge to take a proactive approach to ensure that their advice is tailored to deliver on your objectives and achieves the best outcomes for your organisation.

www.wardhadaway.com

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A Kind Life has supported over 75 health and social care organisations to create and nurture consistently kinder cultures.

Their highly impactful work covers 4 key areas:

Culture:

Transforming and co-creating cultures with bespoke programmes.

Leadership:
Equipping leaders at every level to change behaviours and role model kindness.

Belonging:
Supporting organisations with their equity, diversity and inclusion goals.

Resolution:
A proven pathway, aligned to national policies which A Kind Life helped to develop, which radically reduces and resolves bullying.

Kindness works here.

 www.akind.life

 

 

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Established in 1989, CMP is the UK’s leading provider of workplace relationship management, dispute resolution, and training. We promote inclusive workplaces where employees feel valued, confident to contribute, and skilled to challenge constructively. Services include mediation, coaching, investigations, cultural change, training, and consultancy on policies and procedures, supporting HR and ER goals.

www.cmpsolutions.com

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Who are we?

We are Strengthify. Our specialist team are passionate about bringing positive change to managers and leaders, their teams and whole organisations. We build lasting relationships to support the Higher Education and, Health and Social Care sectors for better outcomes.

Why do we do this?

Wouldn’t it be great, easier and more inclusive to focus on people’s strengths rather than weaknesses. Couldn’t we achieve much more by getting the best out of people, understanding, appreciating and working better together?

We believe in the science of positive psychology, and the power of a strengths-based approach. We want to work with managers, leaders and organisations to effect positive change, leading to more engaged, inclusive and productive teams.

www.strengthify.com

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Liaison Group is a trusted advisor and delivery partner to the NHS, specialising in recovering cash for reinvestment and freeing up time and capacity to deliver more care.

For over 35 years we’ve supported NHS leaders looking to solve their challenges, curating world-class teams from our 385 NHS experts to manage and deliver outcomes with significant value.

We’re committed to transforming the NHS by solving problems in four key areas, Sustainable Financial Recovery, Workforce Productivity and Efficiency, CHC Optimisation and Clinical Transformation.

 www.liaisongroup.com

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Perkbox helps companies elevate their cultures by bringing together employee wellbeing, benefits and engagement in a single app employees love.  We ensure that organisations with diverse and dispersed workforces have a seamless way to care for, connect with and celebrate their people, creating a culture where every employee feels valued. No matter how complex your organisation or challenges may be, we’re here to support your People strategy with impactful tools that are easy to implement and maintain. In one convenient place, your people can easily find support that helps them thrive, savvy savings that help them stretch their salaries, and meaningful recognition that makes them feel appreciated. From everyday grocery savings to mental health support, Perkbox has something for everyone. Wherever your teams are and whatever they do, your people can find something meaningful in a place available to all.

Today, over 7,500 organisations and nearly 4 million employees worldwide trust Perkbox as their partner in employee experience – including more than 80% of the NHS. With two decades of experience in employee wellbeing, benefits and engagement, we uniquely understand your challenges and continually evolve to meet the needs of your organisation and your people.

Together, we build a community that puts people first, everywhere and every day.

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At Salary Finance, we believe financial wellbeing is the foundation of a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce. We partner with employers to provide salary-linked financial wellbeing solutions that help employees reduce stress, build resilience, and take control of their money.

With inclusion, ethics, and accessibility at our core, our award-winning solutions help employees take practical action to pay down high-cost debt, access their earned pay early, build simple, habitual savings, and improve their relationship with money.

Over the last 10 years, we’ve partnered with over 500 employers across all sectors and industries, including the NHS, Councils, Government Departments, as well as some of the largest UK organisations. Today, we support over 3.9 million colleagues and have saved our customers over £118 million in interest via our affordable lending solution. 

Join us to learn how you can make financial wellbeing the foundational pillar of your people strategy. Whether you’re looking to enhance your employee benefits offering, increase engagement, or reduce financial stress in your workforce, we can share more about how Salary Finance has proven life-changing impact in some of the UK’s largest and most complicated organisations.

www.salaryfinance.com

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Hunter Healthcare is an international resourcing business founded in the UK in 2011 with a vision to disrupt recruitment and become the global partner of choice for healthcare organisations. We’ve expanded our services and reinvested our profits to build expertise in board and management search, interim management, statement of work, clinical, and employment preparation services. Within our HR division, we support organisations with both substantive and interim recruitment, while our growing consultancy, through Organisational Development associates and Employee Relations specialists, enhancing leadership, culture, and workforce performance, driving sustainable and financially beneficial transformation across the healthcare sector.

www.hunter-healthcare.com

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