About Us
Michelle Hodgkinson
Michelle joined the NHS as one of the pilot group of the Graduate HR Management Training Scheme in 2004 and has worked in HR roles in acute and specialist NHS settings. Most latterly, she worked as Director of Workforce and OD.
Michelle has extensive experience of OD interventions, culture change projects, Equality and Diversity programmes as well as operational experience of Agenda for Change, identification and implementation of cost improvement measures, redundancy, change management and TUPE exercises.
Michelle also spent 5 years working as the Head of Operations for the HR Advisory Service of a major law firm, taking overall responsibility for ensuring this employee relations service met client organisations’ individual needs. She acted as a senior point of contact for client managers, maintained a small caseload of complex employee relations work, particularly MHPS cases, and has a wealth of experience in investigations.
Michelle has a first class honours degree in French and Human Resource Management, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s degree in HRM at distinction grade. She is a chartered member of the CIPD and an EMCC EQA Coach Practitioner. Michelle is also an MBTI Step one and two accredited practitioner.
Seema Ahmed
Seema has extensive NHS experience of working in Medical HR roles primarily medical resourcing but has experience in medical HR and medical Education.
In previous roles, she was Medical Staffing Manager at various NHS Trusts in London where her role included being involved in employee relations, managing the doctors European working time arrangements and training staff on processes and procedures for medical staff. She has extensive experience in medical recruitment including international recruitment for hard to fill/shortage occupation medical specialties.
For the last 9 years, Seema has developed an in-depth knowledge of medical revalidation and medical education with her most recent employment at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust where she currently works as Senior Education Manager. Seema was responsible for successfully implementing the medical revalidation and appraisal processes at the RNOH.
Seema is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.