Why work at Spire?

We are constantly investing in our business including the latest medical technology, new facilities and refurbishments. These investments mean that our employees feel they can provide a standard of care they can be proud of, in a pleasant working environment.

Our employees are also able to develop new skill sets by embracing state of the art technology, and learning about new techniques and services. We encourage employees to share our value of investing in the future, by investing in their own learning and development to build their skills for the future. This makes Spire a really rewarding place to work for your whole career.

Spire is a profitable, successful business led by an experienced and stable senior management team. In our hospitals, we continue to invest heavily in developing both current and future managers, providing them with the skills to build great teams focused on delivering truly great patient care. In Spire, employees say they feel trusted and respected by their manager and they feel confident in their leadership.

We offer a salary competitive with other private healthcare organisations and excellent rewards, for what our employees consider to be really rewarding work.

We also operate a scheme called Spire for You which provides fantastic retail discounts and offers as well as being the hub of our Inspiring People employee recognition scheme.

Additionally we offer a number of core and voluntary benefits.  Core benefits include a competitive pension scheme, private medical cover, health assessments and life assurance.

Voluntary benefits include:

• eyesight tests
• dental cover
• childcare vouchers
• good value on-site restaurants
• transport season ticket loans
• cycle to work scheme
• discounted gym membership

The “Spire way” of developing our people has been through investing in them to help them realise their potential. Key development programmes are delivered, covering values, expectations and coaching for performance. 178 of our managers completed at least one of these courses in 2012. Through providing staff with clear performance goals and nurturing leadership talent, we have transformed our culture to one where high performance is valued and delivered.

Management Fundamentals

Management Fundamentals is a four day residential programme specifically for new managers joining the business and current employees stepping into their first management role. It is designed to provide delegates with a thorough understanding of the expectations of being a people manager within Spire Healthcare and equip them with the knowledge and tools to enable them to have an immediate and positive impact on their team’s performance.

Management Fundamentals covers a wide range of topics including; the business in context, performance management, creating a high commitment high performance growth culture, coaching for performance, managing attendance and key employee relations processes and procedures.

Delegates have an opportunity to share ideas and thoughts with colleagues from across the organisation in a safe environment and are fully supported by their line managers to help them transfer what they have learnt back to the workplace.

Leadership Essentials

Leadership Essentials is a seven day programme, spread over six months to support the development of experienced and more senior managers at Spire Healthcare. It is designed to enable delegates to understand what inspiring leadership looks like within Spire Healthcare and to provide them with the skills to engage and lead a successful team in order to deliver strong business results

It is a challenging programme that encourages individuals to consider their personal leadership characteristics, raise their level of self-awareness, apply their knowledge of authentic leadership to create loyal followers and discover how to lead people through change effectively.

Delegates have an amazing opportunity to spend two days at the inspirational Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where they can practice and receive feedback on their leadership style. They also have an opportunity to take part in a two day work placement to shadow leaders in another organisation.

Each delegate is appointed a mentor to support their learning throughout the programme and their earning is consolidated through the implementation of a change initiative, which is worked on for the duration of the programme.