by using the Castlefield’s competitive rates.
maintaining Castlefield’s track record.
to ensure the highest quality appointments.
due to high candidate quality.
NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster (LPC) is a shared collaborative procurement and supply chain service for:
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- East Lancashire NHS Trust
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
They wanted to recruit 4 new procurement managers to support their ambitious, strategic procurement agenda. Having struggled to fill these roles through their standard methods, which included NHS jobs, LPC decided to appoint a specialist agency as their recruitment business partner.
LPC turned to the CCS Permanent Recruitment framework (RM6002 now RM6229) to help them find the right agency to meet their needs. The framework is part of the Workforce Alliance suite of workforce support services for health HR and workforce functions. Castlefield Recruitment was awarded directly due to their reputation for filling niche, hard to fill positions. They also offered LPC their most premium service at a highly competitive price.
Following a high profile, multi-hire recruitment campaign Castlefield maintained their 100% success rate filling all 4 positions, as well as an additional 5th position:
- 2 Senior Procurement Managers
- 3 Procurement Managers
In addition to the successful delivery of the project, LPC saved £25,000 by accessing the favourable and reduced rates available through the framework.
