Please may I have a

job?!

The sort of stuff you need

to be thinking about…

…even if it’s a couple

of years away!

Hannah Zacharias

What to think about?

CV

Management and leadership stuff

How does the NHS work? (well today, anyway!)Generic NHS stuff

Palliative Care

How do hospices work?

Interview preparation

CV

Just make a start –

now

You will, repeatedly, massively underestimate the time it will take to finish

Be ready to justify everything you write

Improving your CV

Attend management meetings

Teach as much to as many people as you can

Book reviews

Online comments to journals etc

Short reports / Case reports

Posters and prizes

Ask your consultant if any opportunities are coming up e.g. peer reviewing journal articles

Management & Leadership

Deanery courses

St Christopher’s course

Rota management / STC etc

Ask to be involved / attend meetings (They can be quite boring)

Write a list of questions to ask later

Service development / change

Must have something to talk about at interview

It doesn’t have to be internationally ground-breaking it’s the process that’s important

The ‘new’ NHS…made simple

www.kingsfund.org.uk/altguidenhs

…Sort of

Health & Social Care Bill Summary of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

The Bill proposes to create an independent NHS Board, promote patient choice, and to reduce NHS administration costs.

Key areas

establishes an independent NHS Board to allocate resources and provide commissioning guidance

increases GPs’ powers to commission services on behalf of their patients

strengthens the role of the Care Quality Commission

develops Monitor, the body that currently regulates NHS foundation trusts, into an economic regulator to oversee aspects of access and competition in the NHS

cuts the number of health bodies to help meet the Government's commitment to cut NHS administration costs by a third, including abolishing Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities.

Which bits are important to know about?

Vague idea (ie inwardly digest that video!) about all of it

Health and social care bill (into effect 1/4/13) Time to make friends with your local CCG

Francis Report

Initiatives

CQUINsCommissioning for Quality and Innovation

National (e.g. friends and family, VTE, pressure sores)

Local

Payment By Results

Patient Reported Outcome MeasuresStarted with e.g. hip/knee surgery

Now expanding

Specific to Palliative Care?

End of Life care Strategy

GSF

‘More Care, Less pathway’

EPACCS

Palliative Care Funding Review

Benchmarking / Peer review

24/7 SPC models

SPOC

Up skilling generalists

People to be aware of…

The King’s Fund

Leadership Alliance

NHS IQ

National end of life care intelligence network

ELCQuA

How hospices work

(If you don’t do the St Christopher’s management course)

Board of Trustees

SMT

Paid employees

Volunteers

Strategy

Applications

Pre-application visit?

Check your CV – it may need amending!

Match every answer to the job description and person specification

Referees

If you match the job spec (which you will), you will be asked for interview.

Think about terms and conditions

Interview prep

Go on a course

Know your CV

Know the unit

Know your audienceMeet them

Research them

Know what their interests are

Ask consultants to do mock interviews / check your presentation

The panel

Always: Consultant in Palliative Medicine

RCP representative (to see fair play)

Hospice: Chairman of the board

Chief Executive

Director of Patient Services / Director of Nursing

Other board members

?HR

Trust: Directorate Manager

Hospital Consultant / Clinical Director

?HR

Assorted others!

Expect

A presentation

‘Assessment centres’Psychological profiling

Group assessment / trial by sherry

Standard interview

(The unexpected)

Ask for help