94.1% Success Rate in the Last 12 Months!
Master your interview with our expert-led online course or personalised 1-to-1 coaching.
“Just wanted to let you know I got the job! The executive on the panel said it was an exceptional interview, one of the best she’d ever seen. Felt very humbled by this.”
Successful Candidate, Early 2025
Passionate about helping you get the NHS Consultant Post you really want
NHS Consultant Interview Course & Preparation Programme, with or without 1-to-1 Coaching
Why So Different & Effective?
Exceptional Guidance & Expert-led Support in our Consultant Interview Course
Optimised Planning
A planning approach that optimises your time, whilst accelerating true readiness for the interview.
Comprehensive 8P Process
Our unique 8-point process is designed to create an exceptional level of readiness, covering all bases.
Unparalleled Insight
Gain unique insights from a team that has personally appointed more than a dozen consultants.
Avoid Common Pitfalls
Built on years of rejection insight, so you avoid mistakes that fail even strong candidates.
Personal Support
Access to personal support and guidance whenever you need it throughout your preparation.
Proven Success
Join the 94.1% of our candidates who secured their desired post in the last 12 months.
Choose a path section
Learn from those with decades of experience spanning every dimension and aspect of consultant interviews.
NHS Consultant Interview Course
Our complete, self-paced video course. Get full access to the 8P model, extensive question banks, live tutorials, and worked examples to prepare with confidence.
1-to-1 Personal Coaching
The full online course plus two structured 1-to-1 sessions with our expert coaches to practice, refine your answers, and perfect your performance.
Meet Your Expert Coaches
Learn from those with decades of experience spanning every dimension and aspect of consultant interviews.
Andrew Vincent
MBA DipM
Lead Coach, Consultant Interviews
Director, Optimal Healthcare Ltd
Andrew has a career-lifetime of experience in healthcare, including establishing clinical provider organisations and appointing to them. He is renowned for his insight into NHS priorities and holds multiple psychological accreditations. Co-author of The Consultant Interview (Oxford University Press), he is also lead designer of the Consultant Interview Course, as well as lead coach.
Dr. Sara Watkin
MB ChB, MRCP (paeds), FRCPCH, MD
Co-Lead Coaching Services, Consultant Interviews
Medical Director, Optimal Healthcare Ltd
Sara has over 30 years’ experience as a consultant, with nearly 15 years as Service Chief, including at UCLH. She has previously held roles as Clinical Network Lead and Member of the Neonatal Clinical Reference Group. She’s currently Medical Director of Optimal Healthcare Ltd and is also co-author of The Consultant Interview (Oxford University Press).
8P Model
The 8P Process is divided into eight phases, each corresponding to a stage of preparation. Each phase offers targeted learning, guidance, and practical resources to streamline your preparation and ensure you approach every stage optimally. It can be systematically followed by those at the start of their journey, or adapted according to where you are already in the process.
Planning
Principles
Priorities
Pursuing
Panelling
Presenting
Preparing
Pausing
1. Planning
Optimising your time and personal approach for maximum readiness
2. Principles
The core learning programme of key principles & techniques
3. Priorities
NHS, Trust, specialty and department priorities, major reports, strategies & key initiatives
4. Pursuing
Application guidance and pre-application strategy where early in the process
5. Panelling
Approaching pre-interview visits effectively and positioning yourself optimally
6. Presenting
Delivering highly effective presentations irrespective of short durations
7. Preparing
Ensuring ultimate interview & question readiness and answering with true impact
8. Pausing
Using after interview reflection to ensure continuous improvement
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Our Money-Back Guarantee
Obviously, we can’t guarantee you’ll get a job, but we do guarantee your fees if you don’t get one.
- If you haven’t got a post within 12 months of first application, we’ll return your course fees.
- The 12-month clock starts from your first application deadline date.
- You must be no more than 6 months from completing CCT at time of application.
- Accepting a new locum post or fellowship ends the guarantee.
We like to keep it simple and unambiguous. We want you to succeed!
Be fully prepped for your consultant interview, from planning and research to delivering standout answers, with our expert-led, member-only webinar series.
Starting in September 2025
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you offer discounts?
We do not. We offer an amazing programme and we’re constantly working on it to keep it up to date too. It’s exceptional value and equivalent to a latte a day for a month (and more effective at getting you your post)
Are your success rates genuine?
We include 100% of the persons we know about (success or fail) to calculate our success rate. Integrity is important to us. We do find data from others intriguing.
If it is really short notice until my interview, is there value to the course?
We’d say it goes from being valuable to critical. With next to no time to prepare, you need to know exactly what to do in that time. We’ll get you straight into the high value preparation when you can’t do it all and you’ll find shortcut after shortcut, so you aren’t reinventing the wheel.
Do you support other kinds of interviews?
Well. We are focused only on Consultant Interviews. It’s where we excel and it takes enough time keeping everything up to date. That said, many of the principles hold true for most interviews and so it may be worth considering. Your call. You can always get in touch to ask specifically.
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