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Alan Simmons
Careers Specialist
National Career Guidance Shows 2014
Join the team and make a difference
Career opportunities in the new NHS landscape
A whistle stop tour of…
Who’s delivering NHS healthcare in England?
Career opportunities in the NHS
Workforce plans and trends impacting on career opportunities
Labour market information and sources
Resources available from NHS Careers
Using the NHS Jobs website
Who’s delivering NHS healthcare in England?
Since Health & Social Care Act 2012 – who directs funding?
NHS Hospital
Charity
Private Hospital
Social Enterprise/Community Interest
Company
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP GP
GP
Clinical Commissioning Group
Plans for 7-day services
across the NHS over the next
3 years starting with urgent
care services and supporting
diagnostics.
Since April 2013…
A wider variety of organisations (approximately 1,000) now deliver NHS services in England and …
So staff delivering NHS healthcare are not necessarily employed by NHS organisations and so not are necessarily on NHS terms and conditions of service
Local NHS budgets are managed by GP-led Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) who commission services from the appropriate providers
Health education and training is now commissioned by Health Education England & Local Education & Training Boards (LETBs)
NHS financial support for eligible students on approved pre-registration training continues as before
Responsibility for public health now lies within the domain of local authorities (overseen by Public Health England)
Implications of the changing NHS landscape
Career opportunities
In the NHS
Nurses & Midwives30%
Doctors & Dentists10%
Support to doctors & nurses (HCAs, admin
etc)21%
Healthcare Scientists5%
Allied Health Professions
5%
Central functions (HR, finance etc)
6%
GP practice staff (excl doctors)
7%
Health Informatics2%
Qualifed Ambulance staff
1%
Managers & Senior Managers
3%Hotel, property & estates
5%
Support to ambulance staff
(HCAs,maintenance etc)1%
Healthcare Scientist & AHP Support staff
(Therapy Assistants, admin etc)
4%
Staff in the NHS 2013 (approximately!)
www.ic.nhs.uk
Approximately half of the NHS workforce has a degree/professional qualification
NHS Careers categorises careers into 13 areas:
Allied health professions
Ambulance service team
Dental team
Doctors
Health informatics
Healthcare science
Managers
Midwifery
Nursing (incl. health visiting)
Operating department practice
Pharmacy team
Psychological therapies
Wider healthcare team
Workforce plans and trends impacting on career
opportunities
Workforce plans and trends impacting on career opportunities
Nursing additional 1,094 nursing places primarily adult/general nursing (9% increase on 2013/14)
several HEIs now offer “dual branch” degrees (e.g. Southampton, DMU, Oxford Brookes)
Govt. announcement of degree-level nursing higher apprenticeships (Nursing Times 5-3-14). Trailblazing group of NHS organisations & private providers developing pilots in partnership with HEE, including Northampton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Barchester Healthcare, Priory Group and Bupa UK.
Midwifery no change in commissions for 2014/15
Health Visiting current target to increase the numbers by 4,200 by 2015 remains
open to newly qualified nurses of any branch/field and to midwives
Operating department practice Additional 31 places (3.8% increase)
(Primary source: Investing in people for Health and Healthcare. Proposed Education and Training Commissions for 2014/15 - Workforce Plan for England Health Education England (December 2013))
Allied Health Professions small growth of 3% in the overall AHP commissions this year 198 additional paramedic training places slight reductions in speech & language therapy (2%) and occupational therapy (1%)
Doctors general practice - increase of 222 training places (2.7% increase on 2013/14) core Surgical Training - reduce core surgical training places by 71 this year emergency Medicine – reported problems in insufficient emergency care doctors but
these are not due to a shortage of funded training places, problem lies in attracting trainees to select emergency medicine as specialism. HEE taking action to address this.
Dentistry reduce the number of commissions for dental students, subject to certain discussions
and keep numbers of funded dental students under review in future commission further work into expansion of wider dental workforce e.g. dental nurses &
hygienists. Public Health
commissioned training places for Consultants in Public Health, which will support a forecast increase in the Public Health Consultant workforce of 18% by 2020
(Primary source: Investing in people for Health and Healthcare. Proposed Education and Training Commissions for 2014/15 - Workforce Plan for England Health Education England (December 2013))
Workforce plans and trends impacting on career opportunities
Modernising Scientific Careers
Increasingly opportunities/entry levels at several points:
Healthcare science assistant (work towards vocational qualifications)/healthcare science associate (work towards FDeg)
Healthcare science practitioner (via Practitioner Training Programme (PTP) undergraduate entry – after new BSc Healthcare Science)
Healthcare scientist (via Scientist Training Programme (STP) – graduate entry (replaced previous clinical scientist training scheme))
Consultant healthcare scientist (Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)) – for experienced and postgraduate qualified healthcare scientists. Plans to begin introducing HSST from 2014
** Major changes ** as a result of Modernising Scientific Careers
Primary source: Modernising Scientific Careers: The UK Way Forward (www.dh.gov.uk)
New 3-year accredited BSc Healthcare Science degrees. Include up to 50 week WEX
244 trainee vacancies under STP for 2014 intake
Information becoming
available in 2014
BSc Healthcare Science (Hons) degrees (PTP) at 3-14
LIFE SCIENCES PHYSIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES PHYSICAL SCIENCES &
BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Life Sciences
Blood sciences
Cellula
r sciences
Infection sciences
Genetics scienc
e
Audiology
Cardiac physiology
Neurosensory sciences
Respiratory &
sleep physiology
Medical engineering
Medical physics
Nuclear medicine
Radiotherapy physics
Rehabilitation engineering
Renal technology
Radiation engineering
Radiation physics
Anglia Ruskin University
Aston University
Bradford University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
De Montfort University
Leeds University
Liverpool University Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester University
Middlesex University
Nottingham Trent University
St Georges University
Swansea University
Ulster University
University of Central Lancashire University of Cumbria University of Hertfordshire
University of Plymouth
University of Portsmouth
University of Southampton
University of Sunderland
University of the West of England
University of Wolverhampton
Scientist Training Programme Specialisms (2014 entry)
Total 244 vacancies
in 2014
No. of posts Audiology 20 Cardiac Science 32 Clinical Biochemistry 20 Clinical Engineering - Medical device risk management 1 Clinical Engineering - Rehabilitation engineering 4 Clinical Engineering 9 Clinical Immunology 3 Clinical pharmaceutical sciences 5 Critical Care Science 1 Cytopathology 1 Gastrointestinal Physiology & Urodynamic Science 4 Genetics 17 Genomics 7 Haematology & Transfusion Science 6 Health informatics 6 Histocompatability & immunogenetics 3 Histopathology 1 Medical Physics - Imaging (ionising radiation) 4 Medical Physics - Imaging (non-ionising radiation) 1 Medical Physics - Radiation safety physics 2 Medical Physics - Radiotherapy physics 20 Medical Physics 38 Microbiology 6 Neurophysiology 7 Ophthalmic & Vision Science 0 Physical sciences & biomediical engineering – informatics 5 Reconstructive sciences (maxillofacial prosthetics) 4 Reproductive Science 4 Respiratory & Sleep Sciences 6 Urodynamic sciences 1 Vascular Science 6
For 2014 entry, there have been 8,432 applications for 245 places
Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) Specialisms
Curriculum for the HSST specialisms listed below will be available from April 2014, although additional curricula may be required in the future.
Life sciences (completion of HSST will include the requirement to achieve the FRCPath by examination) Analytical toxicology Clinical biochemistry Clinical immunology Reproductive science Haematology Histocompatibility and immunogenetics Genetics Microbiology Molecular pathology of acquired disease Molecular pathology of infection Virology
Physiological sciences Audiological science Cardiac science Gastrointestinal and urological sciences Ophthalmic and vision science Respiratory and sleep physiology Vascular science
Physical sciences Medical physics (which includes diagnostic imaging sciences and radiotherapy physics) Clinical biomedical engineering
Source: Scaling the Heights: an overview of Higher Specialist Scientist Training (HSST) in Healthcare Science (HEE, 2014)
Apprenticeships in the NHS in the last 4 months - examples
Clinical skills and simulation technician apprentice Sheffield
Apprentice healthcare assistant Norwich
Estates apprentice South Tyneside
Stores apprentice Taunton
Apprentice administrative assistant Manchester
Apprentice ambulance care assistant Harrogate
Mechanic apprentice Coventry
Graphics and multimedia apprentice Gloucester
Apprentice pharmacy support worker Grimsby
Apprentice craftsperson – mechanical/estates Truro
Apprentice healthcare support worker Portsmouth
Apprentice healthcare assistant – clinical wards Gloucester
Apprentice biomedical support worker Norfolk
Healthcare support worker apprentice Bromsgrove
Apprentice gardener Huddersfield
Apprentice administrator – ophthalmology/dermatology Norwich
*As advertised on NHS Jobs (www.jobs.nhs.uk) Candidates should also search on the National
Apprenticeships website (www.apprenticeships.org.uk)
Values Based Recruitment & pre-degree experience
Values Based Recruitment What? “Values Based Recruitment - an approach which attracts and selects
students, trainees or employees on the basis that their individual values and behaviours align with the values of the NHS Constitution”.
Why? “…to ensure the future and current NHS Workforce is selected against the values of the NHS Constitution so we recruit for the right workforce not only with the right skills and in the right numbers but with the right values to support effective team working in delivering excellent patient care and experience.”
How? “…can be assessed in a number of ways including through: pre-screening assessments values based interviewing techniques role play written responses to scenarios assessment centre approaches amongst”
Pre-degree experience being piloted in 6 areas of England for pre-entry into nursing degrees (visit
hee.nhs.uk for details) check with each university as to their requirements/involvement with pilots
Recommendations with roots in the Francis Inquiry
(Primary source: Health Education England website www.hee.nhs.uk)
Labour market information and sources
Shortage occupation list – from 6 April 2013
Includes: Healthcare scientists - clinical neurophysiologist; nuclear medicine scientist;
radiotherapy physicist; bio-informatician; nuclear medicine technologist; radiotherapy technologist
Consultants in: haematology; emergency medicine; old age psychiatry
Non-consultant, non-training, medical staff posts in: anaesthetics; general medicine specialties delivering acute care services (intensive care medicine; general internal medicine - acute); emergency medicine (including specialist doctors working in A & E); rehabilitation medicine and psychiatry
Nurses specialising in: neonatal intensive care units
HCPC-registered: diagnostic radiographer; therapeutic radiographer and sonographer
Source: Shortage occupations list for the UK and Scotland (as at 6 April 2013) from the Migration Advisory Committee (UK Border Agency)
LMI sources in England
Workforce risks and opportunities - education commissioning risks summary from 2012 - March 2012
(Centre for Workforce Intelligence)
Tier 2 Shortage Occupation List – Government approved version – valid from 6 April 2013
(UK Border Agency)
Proposed Education and Training Commissions for 2014/15 - Workforce Plan for England – December 2013
(Health Education England)
Sector Skills Assessment (SSA) for the Health sector(UK Commission for Employment and Skills)
Join the team and make a difference
Resources available from NHS Careers (England only)
What is NHS Careers?
Careers information for England only* websites (4)
literature (all free – but available only for organisations)
contact centre
Job vacancies (NHS Jobs for England & Wales)
Careers counselling/guidance
*There is separate provision in Scotland and Wales
NHS Careers – contact details
0345 60 60 655
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk (main site) www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk (for 14-19 year olds)www.whatcanidowithmydegree.nhs.ukwww.nhscareers.nhs.uk/nursing (nursing microsite)(www.facebook.com/stepintothenhs)(www.youtube.com/nhscareers)Twitter @NHS_Careers
NHS CareersPO Box 27079GlasgowG3 9EJ
Careers resources from NHS Careers, include...
Main site Nursing microsite Undergraduates site Step site (14-19 year olds)
Step welcomeE-pack
Update newsletter for Careers advisers
& teachers
Work experience Toolkit for WEX Co-ordinators
Lesson Plans Schools competitionfor year 8/9 students
Occasional webchats for careers advisers and teachers
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore_teachers.shtml
Features of the main NHS Careers website
Details on the whole breadth of careers in the NHS
Use our coursefinder to search for clinical programmes that lead to professional registration (e.g. nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, BSc (Hons) Healthcare science degrees, radiography, etc). We only list courses that lead to registration – whereas UCAS lists other courses as well. Contact us if you need clarification.
Download our range of literature – before ordering it
See our Resources for education section – lesson plans, schools competition, newsletter etc
Links to the stepinntothenhs.nhs.uk, nursingcareers & whatcanidowithmydegree websites
Links to the NHS Jobs website for job and apprenticeship vacancies in England and Wales
Information for internationally qualified healthcare professionals seeking to work in the NHS
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk
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Using the NHS Jobs website
NB New look site launched 4 March 2014
NHS Jobs website (England & Wales)
www.jobs.nhs.uk
Simple search facility,
Note can use
keywords!
Register for job alerts by email
More advanced search facility
How to apply, hints on applications and interviews
etc
Browse vacancies by career groupings
Vacancies often removed
before closing date (usually
stated this may happen).Recommend signing up for
jobs by email alerts!
NHS Jobs website – advanced search
www.jobs.nhs.uk
NHS Jobs website – vacancy results and filtering
www.jobs.nhs.uk
Using the “keywords or job reference” field…
LOOKING FOR VACANCIES
RELATED TO…
TRY SEARCH TERMS SUCH AS…
EXAMPLES OF RESULTING JOB VACANCIES
NUTRITION Lifestyle support worker Health development practitioner Assistant nutritionist/dietitian
PSYCHOLOGY“talking therapies”, “counselling”, “mental health”, “low intensity”,
“high intensity”, “IAPT”
Substance misuse practitioner Wellbeing Coordinator Mental health advisor - trainee
ADMINISTRATION“marketing”, “project”, “payroll”,
“finance”, “communication”, “record-keeping”
Marketing coordinator Employment services officer
(recruitment) Finance assistant
SPORT SCIENCE“exercise”, “fitness”, “lifestyle”, “stroke”, “physiology”, “cardiac
rehabilitation”
Rehabilitation assistant Health improvement practitioner Cardiac physiologist
LIFE SCIENCES“laboratory”, “pathology”, “public
health”, “healthcare science”, “health protection”
Training administration asst. (pathology)
Medical laboratory assistant – advanced
Newborn screening data managerPUBLIC HEALTH
“health improvement”, “health protection”, “substance misuse”,
“smoking cessation”
Health promotion resource & info. officer
Integrated care drugs worker Administrator (PCT, working at a
prison)
“healthy eating”, “diet”, “food”, “allergy”, “health promotion”,
“nutrition”, “lifestyle”