Scalpel…microscope…camera…purchase ledger: Career opportunities in the NHS

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Career opportunities in the NHS

• Alan Simmons
• Careers Consultant
• NHS Careers

Join the team and make a difference
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• Size and structure of the NHS
• Career areas roles
• Opportunities at university and beyond
• Pay
• Careers information resources from NHS Careers
  
• NHS Jobs

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Size and structure of the NHS
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NHS organisations in England (at 9-10)

• 168 Acute (Hospital) Trusts
• 12 Ambulance Trusts
• 11 Care Trusts
• 59 Mental Health Trusts
• 147 Primary Care Trusts
• 9 Special Health Authorities
• 10 Strategic Health Authorities
• Total 416 NHS organisations
• (includes 129 Foundation Trusts at March 2010)

Source www.nhs.uk
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How the NHS works
www.nhs.uk
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Staff in the NHS 2009 (approximately!)
www.ic.nhs.uk
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Career areas roles
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Examples of careers in the Allied Health
Professions

• Adult psychotherapist
• Art therapist
• Child psychotherapist
• Chiropodist/podiatrist
• Clinical psychologist
• Counselling psychologist
• Diagnostic radiographer
• Dietitian
• Dramatherapist
• Forensic psychologist
• Health psychologist

• Music therapist
• Occupational therapist
• Orthoptist
• Orthotist
• Physiotherapist
• Prosthetist
• Psychotherapist
• Therapeutic radiographer
• Speech and language therapist
• Technical instructor

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Examples of careers in the Ambulance Service team

• Ambulance care assistant
• Call handler
• Control room manager
• Control room supervisor
• Emergency care practitioner
• Emergency medical dispatcher
• Paramedic
• Patient transport services controller
• Patient transport services driver
• Student paramedic

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Examples of careers in the Dental Team

• Associate dentist
• Assistant dentist
• Dental nurse
• Dental hygienist
• Dental therapist
• Dental technologist
• Dental surgeon
• Dentist community
• Dentist - general practice

• Dentist hospital
• Dentist public health
• Oral maxillo-facial surgeon
• Maxillofacial prosthetist
• Orthodontist
• Paediatric dentist
• Restorative dentist
• Vocational trainee

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Examples of career areas for Doctors

• Acute care common stem (ACCS)
• Acute Internal Medicine
• Anaesthesia
• Chemical pathology
• Community Sexual Reproductive Health
• General practice
• Histopathology
• Medical microbiology
• Medical virology
• Medicine in general

• Emergency medicine
• Neurosurgery (core neuroscience training)
• Obstetrics gynaecology
• Ophthalmology
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Paediatrics
• Psychiatry in general
• Public health
• Surgery in general

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Examples of careers in Health Informatics

• Administrative assistant
• Assistant IT support officer
• Assistant manager, medical records
• Clinic clerk
• Clinical audit manager/officer
• Clinical coder
• Clinical records officer
• Computer manager and information co-ordinator
• Information analyst
• Information services manager

• Information specialist
• Information/library officer
• IT trainer
• Knowledge and information
• manager
• Librarian
• Medical records clerk
• Network manager
• Patient liaison manager
• Project manager
• Public health intelligence manager
• Telecommunications manager
• Ward clerk

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Examples of careers in Healthcare Science
Medical physics and clinical engineering
Physiological sciences
Life sciences

• Biomechanical engineering
• Clinical illustration
• Equipment management
• Information technology / computer science
• Medical engineering rehabilitation engineering
• Diagnostic radiology
• Nuclear medicine
• Radiation protection
• Renal dialysis
• Maxillofacial prosthetics

• Audiology
• Cardiology
• Clinical perfusion
• Critical care technology
• G I physiology
• Hearing therapy
• Neurophysiology
• Ophthalmic science
• Respiratory physiology
• Urodynamics
• Vascular technology
• Vision science

• Anatomical pathology
• Blood transfusion
• Clinical biochemistry
• Clinical embryology
• Clinical immunology
• Cytopathology
• Haematology
• Histopathology
• Phlebotomy

Under Modernising Scientific Careers, medical
physics and clinical engineering will form 2
separate work areas
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Examples of careers in Midwifery

• Community midwife
• Consultant midwife
• Delivery suite manager
• Health visitor
• Labour ward manager
• Midwife
• Neonatal nurse

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Examples of careers in Nursing

• Community nurse
• District nurse
• General/adult nurse
• Health visitor
• Learning disability nurse
• Mental health nurse
• Nurse Consultant
• Occupational health nurse
• Paediatric (childrens) nurse
• Practice nurse
• Prison nurse
• School nurse

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Managers of

• Administration
• (the) Board
• Change
• Clinical audit
• Clinical governance
• Clinical risk
• Clinical site
• Commissioning
• Communications/public relations
• Contracts
• Estates facilities
• Finance
• General services
• Hotel services

• Human resources
• Information
• Information management
• Linen/laundry services
• Medical records
• Patient services/patient liaison
• Training
• Projects
• Practice (e.g. a GP surgery)
• Primary care development
• Procurement and supplies
• Sterile services
• Strategic development

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Examples of careers in the Wider Healthcare Team

• Corporate services
• Architect
• Chaplain
• Engineer
• Finance staff
• Health education/promotion
• officer
• Hospital play staff
• Human resources staff
• Librarians
• Surveyors

• Administration
• Clerk
• Medical record keeper
• Medical secretary/personal
• assistant
• Receptionist
• Secretary/typist
• Switchboard operator/telephonist

• Estates services
• Building worker bricklayer/
• carpenter/painter/plumber/tiler
• Caretaker
• Electrician
• Estates manager
• Estate technician
• Gardener/grounds staff
• Window cleaner

• Clinical support services
• Arts therapy assistant
• Assistant dietitian
• Assistant technical officer
• Cardiographer
• Clinical support worker in dentistry
• Maternity support worker
• Medical laboratory assistant
• Newborn hearing screener
• Nursing healthcare assistant
• Occupational therapy assistant
• Physiotherapy assistant
• Phlebotomist
• Podiatry assistant
• Radiography assistant
• Speech and language therapy
• assistant

• Domestic services
• Catering manager
• Catering assistant
• Assistant catering manager
• Chef/head chef/assistant
• chef
• Domestic services manager/
• supervisor
• Domestic services assistant
• Housekeeper
• Laundry manager/assistant

• Support services
• Audiovisual technician
• Driver
• Fire safety officer
• Messenger
• Porter
• Security
• Sterile services manager/
• assistant
• Storekeeper

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Opportunities at university beyond
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Opportunities at University

• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Orthoptics
• Operating department practice
• Paramedic science
• Physiotherapy
• Physiological science (incl GI, cardiac, neuro,
  respiratory)
• Podiatry/chiropody
• Prosthetics and orthotics
• Radiography (therapeutic diagnostic)
• Speech language therapy

• Audiology
• Biomedical science
• Clinical perfusion
• Dental hygiene
• Dental technology
• Dental therapy
• Dentistry
• Dietetics
• Healthcare Science
• Medicine
• Midwifery

• Financial support for eligible students
• Tuition fees paid in full bursary payable
  NHS support from part way through course
• For more info, visit NHS Student Bursaries
  website www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students

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Opportunities for Graduates Clinical

• Clinical scientist training relevant science
  degree required for entry NB changes as a
  result of Modernising Scientific Careers
• Biomedical scientists - NB changes as a result of
  Modernising Scientific Careers
• Arts therapists (music, drama art therapy)
• Psychologists clinical, counselling, forensic,
  health areas, primary care graduate mental health
  worker
• Accelerated programmes for graduates
• Dentistry
• Dietetics
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Radiography (therapeutic and diagnostic)
• Speech language therapy

Financial support for eligible students
Tuition fees paid in full bursary payable
NHS support from part way through course For
more info, visit NHS Student Bursaries website
www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students
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Opportunities for Graduates - Non-clinical

• Graduate Management Training Scheme
• Financial management stream
• General management stream
• Human resource management stream
• Informatics management
• Details for 2011 entry yet to be confirmed
  visit www.nhsgraduates.co.uk
• Other non-scheme opportunities e.g.
• Health informatics (e.g. librarians,
  statisticians)
• Operational management
• Engineering etc.

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BIOLOGY
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FINANCE MANAGER
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST
ACCELERATED PRE-REGISTRATION DEGREE IN SPEECH AND
LANGUAGE THERAPY (TUITION FEES PAID
MEANS-TESTED BURSARY)
GRADUATE MANAGEMENT TRAINING SCHEME FINANCE
STREAM (SALARIED WHILST TRAINING)
ENGLISH
4-YEAR ACCELERATED DEGREE IN MEDICINE (SOME
MEDICAL SCHOOLS) FROM YEAR 2 TUITION FEES PAID
AND ELIGIBLE FOR MEANS TESTED BURSARY
G.P.
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PSYCHOLOGY
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BUSINESS STUDIES
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• but dont forget the many opportunities for
  non-University trained staff too!

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Career Framework for the NHS
EXAMPLES
Consultant psychiatrist, board director
More senior staff
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Nurse consultant, consultant SLT, chief pharmacist
Consultant practitioners
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Advanced practitioners
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Head of estates, specialist OT/midwife
Hotel services manager, community psychiatric
nurse, health visitor
Senior practitioners
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New entrant radiographer/midwife/nurse/OT,
paramedic, biomedical scientist
Practitioners
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Assist. Pract. (technical cardiology), Asst.
Pract. (neurology), OT technician
Assistant practitioners
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Medical sec., senior housekeeper, therapy
assistant, HCA, ATO
Senior healthcare assist./technicians
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Support workers
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Clinical support worker, cook, housekeeper
Initial entry level jobs
Domestic, porter, cadet, care assistant
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Pay
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Pay systems as at April 2010

• Agenda for change
• Covers the vast majority of staff in the NHS
• Has 9 bands (levels), ranging from band 1
  (13,653 to 14,364 p.a.) to band 9 (77,079 to
  97,478 p.a.)
• Doctors and dentists
• Very senior managers

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NHS Careers information and resources(England
only)
Join the team and make a difference
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What is NHS Careers?

• Careers information for England only?
• websites (3)
• literature (all free)
• contact centre
• phone
• Email
• post
• fax
• Job vacancies ? (NHS Jobs for England Wales)
• Careers counselling/guidance ?
• There is separate provision in Scotland and Wales

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NHS Careers contact details
advice_at_nhscareers.nhs.uk
NHS Careers PO Box 2311 Bristol BS2 2ZX
Fax [phone]
0345 60 60 655
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk (main site)
www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk (for 14-19 year
olds) www.whatcanidowithmydegree.nhs.uk (www.faceb
ook.com/stepintothenhs) (www.youtube.com/nhscareer
s)
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Main NHS Careers website
Different ways to explore the careers information
Search the site
Link to NHS Jobs website
A-Z of around 110 NHS careers
Download leaflets
Contact centre details
Find university courses leading to statutory
registration
Find university courses
Resources for teachers
Advice line for existing NHS staff
Monthly feature
Latest news
Link to list of NHS Trusts
Info for staff qualified outside UK
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk
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Step into the NHS (14-19 year olds)
Career mapper short quiz to suggest possible
careers
Case studies of NHS staff
Menu
Video clips
Register to receive welcome pack and customised
information
Additional features for students whove
registered
www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk
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Students registering with the Step into the NHS
website will receive (for free)

• A personalised welcome pack of information
• Access to additional areas of the Step into the
  NHS website
• Ongoing e-mail communication (termly) until they
  are 19

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What can I do with my degree website (graduates
and undergraduates)
Case studies of graduates now working in the NHS
Change degree discipline
Links to graduate schemes
Advice on applying for a job
Advice on career prospects
www.whatcanidowithmydegree.nhs.uk
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NHS Jobs
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Jobs website (England Wales)
Simple search facility
More advanced search facility
Register for job alerts by email RSS
Browse vacancies by career groupings
How to apply, hints on applications and
interviews etc
www.jobs.nhs.uk
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Using the Advanced search function
TRY SEARCH TERMS IN THE SKILLS FIELD SUCH AS
LOOKING FOR VACANCIES RELATED TO
EXAMPLES OF RESULTING JOB VACANCIES
healthy eating, diet, food, allergy,
health promotion, nutrition, lifestyle

• Lifestyle support worker
• Health development practitioner
• Assistant nutritionist/dietitian

NUTRITION