How to overcome a lack of internal talent to recruit a specialised health IT role

Healthscope’s Nathan Way needed a more efficient way of recruiting.

He wanted to look beyond his internal talent to recruit people with skills ranging from technical IT knowledge through to the business processes needed to run administrative and clinical applications.

Transform IT’s approach to recruiting specialised roles

The health IT industry is at the core of what we do.

Our proactive, forward-thinking approach means we can select the ideal candidates from our extensive network with a turnaround time significantly less than our competitors.

We spend our time cultivating a vast pool of professionals, from which we gain a deeper understanding of who each person is and the role they’re looking for. This involves daily discussions and interactions with potential candidates to ensure we deliver highly specialised talent.

Transform IT’s team have built up strong relationships with various hospitals and health organisations nationally, and we take pride in also having worked on the front-line of healthcare and major hospital implementations across Australia.

Our deep understanding of the technology sector, coupled with our healthcare focus, means we can quickly find top talent who might not be actively looking for roles.

The difference a proactive approach makes to recruitment

As technology leaders, we understand how important it is to fill highly specialised roles quickly, and our unique approach ensures we’re able to deliver on that promise.

For Nathan, this efficiency provided Healthscope with exactly what it needed.

“Transform IT was able to remove the candidate screening process and would usually present us back with a shortlist of three candidates. By interviewing only these candidates, it gave us back a lot of time to spend on other aspects of filling the roles.”

The result

Nathan was very pleased with the outstanding candidates Transform IT helped bring into Healthscope. To him it was proof that with the right support, the search for the best candidate doesn’t have to be a lengthy process.

“Jennifer was excellent at providing us with candidates who had good experience both from an IT perspective and from a hospital business perspective,” he said.

“Employees with a skills mix like this are often difficult to source, but important in the way they relate to clinicians and administrative hospital staff when supporting and implementing new hospital systems.”

So, if you need to find the health IT talent to fill a specialised role, get in contact with Transform IT today.