Heather Owen
ODS Associate
BSc (Hons) Nursing Sciences
Registered General Nurse
Heather Owen has a proven track record as a researcher in the NHS and academic healthcare environments.
Since 2001, she has worked as a project officer/researcher with the Open University at its Centre for Education in Medicine in Milton Keynes. In this role, Heather is responsible for all aspects of research projects including: literature reviews, recruiting study participants, administration of questionnaires, interviewing and data analysis.
Her impressive research experience to date includes a qualitative evaluation of medical professionalism on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians and a study into the costs of hospital inspection visits on behalf of the Department of Health.
Heather’s previous roles include: research associate at King’s College, London and research staff nurse at Central Middlesex Hospital. She has also worked as a medical secretary and a clinical coder.
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HR departments can find themselves overstretched dealing with the additional activity required, or nervous and unsure exactly how to meet the requirements; from consultation, people transition policies, equality impact assessments, function and people mapping and associated ring fencing and selection criteria.
ODS can provide practical, strategic help and support ranging from template policies and people and mapping frameworks, to reviewing and adding to the overall strategy, or working on specific areas. ODS’s commitment to skills transfers allows the organisation to build skills for future transfers.
If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, please look here to find out how we can support you or your organisation, alternatively contact ODS Ltd and ask to speak to one of our consultants.
- Struggling to meet the many requirements of the HR transition framework?
- Don’t have the capacity to write a people transition policy?
- Nervous about people mapping frameworks or selection criteria?
- Don’t know when you’ll address the equality impact assessment of changes?