Child Health

King’s College Hospital is one of London’s biggest NHS teaching hospitals, and their Child Health team is something special, spanning everyone from neonatal specialists to paediatric matrons across the trust.

King’s wanted a recruitment film that felt genuinely real, not like every other staff testimonial video out there. They came to us wanting honest conversations with their team, a mix of people who’d just joined and others who’d been there for years and progressed within the department, to show what actually makes child health such a brilliant place to build a career.

Filming inside a busy, working hospital is never straightforward. There’s no controlled studio environment, no luxury of a quiet, empty space to set up in. So rather than fight that, we turned it into the idea itself: colour-coded backdrops on green screen, one shade per team member, letting each person’s personality shine through on camera in their own way.

We sat down with Jonathon, a Paediatric Nurse, Ellen, a Staff Nurse, and Natasha, a Practice Development Nurse, among others, a spread of roles and experience across the department, and just let them talk, openly and honestly, about why they do what they do.

Because we were filming around children and parents on a busy, ever-changing ward, we took protocols and consent particularly seriously throughout. We’re well used to working in hospitals and adapting on the fly but this shoot came with a bonus: the kids on the ward thought having a film crew around was genuinely exciting, a welcome bit of fun in their day.

The film went on to play a real part in King’s recruitment efforts, specifically encouraging newly trained staff to consider child health as their specialism, with Jonathon, Ellen and Natasha’s own voices doing far more persuading than any generic recruitment ad ever could.