About The Clear Company

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“Kate’s exceptional ability to deal with complex topics in a simple and engaging manner is incredible. Her level of engagement is extremely high and her natural passion and enthusiasm are inspirational. As an HR professional her expertise is second to none but it is her ability to share and educate which is so special.”
Sarah Hopkins
Director
ResourceBank Recruitment Ltd

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“Kate has been instrumental in developing a recruitment toolkit designed specifically with the needs of a World Class Commissioning workforce in mind. The toolkit represents best practice and as such is an essential facility for our HR practitioners as well as recruiting managers looking to source the right candidate for the right job. Kate and her team have been great to work — a mix of professionalism, flare and fun — all essential ingredients to stay the course and ensure the project deliverables were realised.”
Rosalyn Jack
Director of Workforce & Development
Portsmouth NHS

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“As Chairman of DWP’s Employer Engagement on Disability Steering Group, I can vouch for the excellence that Kate Headley and The Clear Company have brought to bear in developing a very practical “tool-kit” for employers on how to recruit and retain disabled people, and they have done this through a very involving process with major and SME employers across the country.”
James Partridge
Chief Executive
Changing Faces

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“I really like the guidance (and I’ve read quite a lot in my time). It is easy to read, very practical, reassuring and importantly focuses on identifying cultural, attitudinal and physical barriers that affect disabled people, and then talks about removing them. In my view it reflects and indeed promotes a social model of disability approach… in fact it indicates that the social model’s ideas are beginning to be genuinely mainstreamed into current thinking and practice. ”
Graham Findlay
Positive Action for Disability Manager
Chartered Institute of Housing

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“The Clear Company designed and delivered a series of workshops for the in-house recruitment teams at KPMG. We selected Clear on the basis of their best practice knowledge, recruitment and diversity expertise and ability to engage with different stakeholder groups. Our recruitment teams left with action plans and enthusiasm for change which continues to this day.”
Sarah Bond
KPMG

What we do
As one of the UK’s leading experts in recruitment and talent management best practice in the UK, Clear offers a range of services including:

Who we are
Led by nationally-recognised recruitment expert Kate Headley, Clear operates as a team of specialist consultants that work together to meet the needs of specific client briefs. From occupational psychologists and diversity specialists to inclusion experts and audit professionals, Kate assembles a proven team from her extensive network to work under her strategic direction to deliver the right results for her clients, time after time.

Profile: Kate Headley
Kate is a qualified HR professional who followed an early career in the private sector (Marks & Spencer) and the public sector (Manchester City Council) with 15 years specialising in HR recruitment and diversity. Best known for her passion and expertise in the development of inclusive best practice recruitment & talent management processes, Kate now leads her own consultancy, The Clear Company.

Kate is recognised as one of the leading auditors of recruitment and talent management best practice in the UK. Kate is an expert advisor to members of Employers’ Forum on Disability and Kate has recently developed and launched a best practice tool kit for a large NHS Client and is working with employers, employers forums and government departments on the launch of a comprehensive tool kit for the recruitment of disabled talent.