Rehearse the Band 7 panel before it counts.
From your first-100-days plan to managing sickness and overspends, practise thinking like a service lead with a panel that challenges your answers.
- Service improvement with measurable results
- Workforce, rotas and wellbeing
- Governance, CQC standards and budgets
Questions the panel will ask
- 01What would you change in your first 100 days, and how?
- 02How would you manage staff sickness and a high vacancy rate?
- 03Tell us about a service improvement you led from idea to result.
- 04How do you make sure your area meets CQC standards?
- 05How would you manage a budget overspend on bank and agency staff?
Plus follow-ups on anything vague, then a scored debrief, video replay and STAR coaching.
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