Job interview

Question 1

What can you tell us about what the IHPN does?

Answer 1

1) You are a membership organisation to 100 members for independent healthcare providers
2) You bring your members together to promote learning
3) You communicate your members views to decision and policy makers and communicate with regulators to guide members to high safety and quality standards
4) You provide business and healthcare environment insight supporting the NHS recovery

Question 2

What is your understanding of the UK policy landscape, and how does it affect the healthcare sector?

Answer 2

The UK policy landscape is prioritising - forging a new path and growth following Brexit
Fiscal uncertainty
Political upheaval

Affects longevity of funding and certainty, investment and policy direction

Question 3

Why do you want to work for us?

Answer 3

• You produce impactful work at a high level
• Your key areas of work align with my interests and values
  The diversity of the programme of work indicates that the role would be stimulating and also would expose me to a wide range of policy issues and work that would be great for my career
• The balance between policy and regulation - utilising different aspects of my masters

Question 4

What is my understanding of research strategy/culture?

Answer 4

Partnership
Innovation
Impact
interdisciplinary
Sustainability

Question 5

What is my understanding of research skills?

Answer 5

Horizon scanning
Translating and disseminating research
Academic writing - utilise my experience of humanities writing to inform
Differing methods used myself and practical research experience

Question 6

What is current research culture aiming to be like?

Answer 6

We are aiming for and growing towards:
Inclusion
Accountability
Collaboration and healthy competition
Wellbeing of researchers, career sustainability and security
Diversity
Transparency
Research integrity
interdisciplinary foci

Question 7

What is ‘culture’ when we talk about research culture?

Answer 7

Behaviours values expectations and norms

Question 8

What is your experience of project management?

Answer 8

My volunteering experience in the LDU and Liverpool barbell union involved managing multiple individual projects for example in both societies I was involved in organising competitions with the LDU our universities debate national competition
and the powerlifting varsity
communicating with stakeholders, liaising across the committee, delegation and compromise, and troubleshooting, teamwork and motivation

Question 9

Can you tell us about a time when you provided guidance, and the skills you used?

Answer 9

masters dissertation
Skills - ethical analysis, legal and policy analysis

veterinary advice - collating the relevant evidence, performing analysis through tests of the case in front of me, interviewing to gather detailed information and then applying the evidence and my knowledge to the case to provide tailored advice

Question 10

Can you talk to us about your experience of developing policy and policy statements?

Answer 10

Masters dissertation

Buchanan - isolating an area of practice or governance that has an issue in our case the translation of the 100,000 genomes project into the genomic medicine service, setting out existing policy and wider governance, analysing and describing what the issue is, proposing and justifying planned changes including incorporating potential criticism and rebutting it (

Question 11

What is your experience of horizon scanning?

Answer 11

Masters and buchanan

Question 12

How would I be good at delivering briefings?

Answer 12

Critical analysis skills from academic writing

Condensing and prioritising - veterinary, rounds

Question 13

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative information

Answer 13

I have done primary research that incorporated both of this throughout all my degrees

masters - used sound scientific quantitative studies combined with policy analysis, qualitative studies and philosophical analysis and other sources of qualitative information

Question 14

communicating the views of members

Answer 14

LLM representative
LDU and Barbell society - conveying the views of members, the team as the captain, liaising between groups

Question 15

What is my experience of writing reports and briefings

Answer 15

Writing consultation notes
sending briefing updates via email and slack
writing my policy report presentation and interim report, executive summary

Question 16

Regulatory experience

Answer 16

Gender Identity and the Law
Germline editing and embryo research
mental health law
medical negligence

Question 17

How are you a people person?

Answer 17

Communication skills
Extroverted - I love working in a collaborative team environment
Able to lead but also to work in a horizontal team structure as well as a vertical hierarchy

Question 18

Where have I had to demonstrate a can do attitude?

Answer 18

It’s central to being a successfully veterinary student and junior vet - small world and our feedback
You need to be able to seamlessly fit in to a new workplace very quickly, make good connections , build relationships with the team and really be indispensable and memorable
which comes from doing whatever is asked of you to a high standard, just getting it done, being pro-active in finding ways to be useful and really facilitating the work of the team

Question 19

How are you committed to personal growth and learning?

Answer 19

I have resilience and insight - from continuing veterinary
changing subjects
moving to a new country and learning a new language because I wanted broad experiences and to grow

Question 20

Gaining the confidence of internal and external stakeholders

Answer 20

strong customer service and interpersonal skills
- veterinary, building long term trust and relationships, clients that ask for you
- I have customer service work experience

Question 21

Flexible and agile in a rapidly changing environment

Answer 21

Veterinary