YHA
It’s been great to work with the Starfish team on two recent Exec appointments at YHA. From the outset the team impressed with their responsiveness, keenness to engage with us and our mission, and ability to work at pace to a very challenging timetable. The search was extensive and led to an impressive and wide-ranging field of applicants, from which we have been delighted to appoint two excellent candidates. Starfish’s service throughout has been personal, attentive and very quickly in tune with YHA, our values and our recruitment approach. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Top Talent: Adult Social Care
Adult social care remains one of the largest and most complex challenges facing local authorities across the country.
Beyond Tradition. Leadership Reshaped.
We’re delighted to launch our new modern leadership report, Beyond Tradition. Leadership Reshaped.
Starfish shortlisted as 6th in the 2026 IIM Interim Management Survey
We are delighted to share that Starfish Search has been recognised in the latest Institute of Interim Management (IIM) Survey.
ACCREDITATIONS
ESPO is a public sector owned professional buying organisation (PBO), specialising in providing a wide range of goods and services to the public sector for over 40 years. Starfish Search has been awarded a place on ESPO’s Strategic HR Services framework (3S). Please contact us to find out how we can support under this framework.
Starfish are proud to be certified Disability Confident Committed. This scheme provides employers with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to attract, recruit, retain and develop disabled people in the workplace.
Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services. In 2020/21, CCS helped the public sector to achieve commercial benefits equal to £2.04bn - supporting world-class public services that offer best value for taxpayers. Starfish Search has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Executive and Non-Executive recruitment. Services we offer under the framework include: Lot 3 - Non-Executive and Public Appointments.
Bloom, launched in 2012 is the UK’s leading marketplace for professional services. They provide an end-to-end solution for the procurement, contract management and payment of all professional services, via the compliant NEPRO³ framework. Their public sector clients have access to 20 professional services categories and over 4500 accredited suppliers. Bloom provides swift routes to market via either direct award or mini competition. Starfish is an accredited supplier to BLOOM; our services can be accessed via this framework - Executive and Non-Executive Search and Interim Management.
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