Applicants must demonstrate at Multiple Mini-Interview the core values set out in the NHS Constitution. These core values are summarised as:
•Working together for patients, putting the needs of patients and communities first and speaking up when things go wrong.
•Respect and dignity, valuing every person – whether patient, their families or carers, or staff – as an individual and taking what others have to say seriously.
•Commitment to quality of care, earning the trust placed in the profession by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care – safety, effectiveness and patient experience – right every time.
•Compassion, ensuring that compassion is central to the care provided and respond with humanity and kindness to each person’s pain, distress, anxiety or need. We search for the things we can do, however small, to give comfort and relieve suffering. We find time for patients, their families and carers, as well as those we work alongside.
•Improving lives, striving to improve health and wellbeing and people’s experiences of the NHS. We cherish excellence and professionalism wherever we find it – in the everyday things that make people’s lives better as much as in clinical practice, service improvements and innovation.
•Everyone counts, maximising resources for the benefit of the whole community, and making sure nobody is excluded, discriminated against or left behind.
Applicants are encouraged to read the full text of the NHS Constitution before attending for interview.
