Values Based Recruitment

Our HEE values and behaviours are unique to HEE and have been co-created by colleagues across the organisation. They sit underneath the wider banner of the NHS Constitutional values, something which everyone who works for the NHS, including our trainees and learners are expected to uphold.

Our HEE values and behaviours

The golden thread that connects all our values is the need for a people-centred approach. Having developed these values together, we ensure we are putting people first and being the best possible version of ourselves:

• Responsible
• Fair
• Confident
• Inclusive

Read more about HEE values

You can expect to show an understanding of, and empathy with these values as part of the HEE recruitment process. Be prepared to show you can demonstrate these values through your work and you may be asked about this at interview.

If you are applying for any job in the NHS an understanding of the six values in the NHS Constitution is important:

• working together for patients. Patients come first in everything we do
• respect and dignity. We value every person – whether patient, their families or carers, or staff – as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits
• commitment to quality of care. We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care – safety, effectiveness, and patient experience right every time
• compassion. We ensure that compassion is central to the care we provide and respond with humanity and kindness to each person’s pain, distress, anxiety or need
• improving lives. We strive to improve health and wellbeing and people’s experiences of the NHS
• everyone counts. We maximise our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is excluded, discriminated against, or left behind

You can find more about the NHS Constitution Values, including an opportunity to test your values fit with these.