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Careers for CMTs Sept 2015

This article provides a reminder about the importance of career planning, self-awareness, and decision making. It offers tips on creating a career plan, setting SMART targets, and taking charge of your career. It also includes information on accessing careers information and websites for career resources.

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Careers for CMTs Sept 2015

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  1. Careers for CMTs Sept 2015

  2. Careers Bugatti Veyron $1.7 million No accessories

  3. Reminder about Career planning Self awareness Careers information Career decision making • Have a plan B Action planning • SMART targets REMEMBER YOU ARE IN CHARGE!!

  4. Careers: Specialty Choice Form: HEEoE website careers section JRCPTB website careers section National medical careers website Talk to ES/relevant specialists or trainees etc Escalate through Trust Careers Lead

  5. Careers Information Websites National medical careers website http://www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk RCP Careers and Recruitment http://www.jrcptb.org.uk

  6. Preparing your Evidence Get a box file to save things you might need. Keep everything! • Degree/exam certificates • Prizes • Certificates of attendance at teaching / courses etc Copies of papers/ presentations / audits Keep your ePortfolio up to date • Try to put something in every week Keep your CV up to date and targeted

  7. Showing you are committed Talk to specialists/trainees Books/websites/fairs Go on relevant courses Do relevant assessments, audits and presentations Try to get published Placements/tasters

  8. Careers “application” websites NHS Jobs http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ Oriel https://www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web HEE Speciality Training Website http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk ST3 Recruitment Website http://www.st3recruitment.org.uk

  9. Job Advertisements Week before Applications open NHS Jobs http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ Possibly elsewhere • e.g. BMJ careers, LETB websites

  10. Oriel https://www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/ Single site for all parts of process Registration Vacancies Application forms Interviews Offers

  11. HEE Speciality Training Websitehttp://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk Processes explained Timelines Person specifications Competition ratios • By speciality • By LETB Sample application forms Applicant Handbook 2016

  12. ST3 Recruitment Websitewww.st3recruitment.org.uk Specialities hosted by the Speciality Recruitment Office (SRO) of the JRCPTB 22 specialities (some details on other 10) Timelines • Adverts: Feb 10th • Application Feb 16th- March 9th

  13. The process Minor variations between specialities All will use Oriel – all stages including offers Most nationally coordinated • Small specialities: assessed in Lead LETB • Large specialities: assessed in single or multiple centres • Single transferable score Single cascadableapplication system

  14. Single Transferable Score New Recruitment Model Successful pilot in Respiratory Med 2014 Four interview centres around UK Applicants seen in their closest centre Could rank all UoAs Quality assured for consistent scores Some other SRO specialties 2015

  15. National specialties

  16. Single Cascadable Application System Cascading occurs before interview based on application form score Applicants interviewed by their top ranked LETB that has interview capacity for them Appointable candidates for whom there is no post in the LETB that interviews go into national clearing and are not cascaded to their next choice LETB

  17. SCA specialties acute internal medicine cardiology endocrinology & diabetes mellitus geriatric medicine renal medicine.

  18. Application Form Part 1 Personal details Eligibility to apply: • Registration • English language skills • Right to work in UK Fitness to Practice LTFT, deferred start, disabilities etc

  19. Application Form Part 2 Section 1: Evidence of competence and experience Section 2: Employment history • Including gaps Section 3: Evidence of meeting selection criteria

  20. Scoring of Application Forms Additional degrees Prizes - National Presentations Publications • Peer reviewed • Relevant to speciality

  21. “White boxes” Achievements outside Medicine Commitment to Speciality Word count limited Be succinct; good grammar and spelling “Situation, Action, Result” Do not plagiarise – be honest

  22. Structure of the Interview Different for different specialities, but typically, three or more of: • CV and portfolio station (evidence folder) • Presentation station • Skills and knowledge station • Communication and ethics station Academic: usually a single panel (also have to apply through national recruitment)

  23. Academic Interviews Candidate’s past research experience • Methodology and outcomes • Underlying “science” Recent important research in chosen speciality Candidate’s proposed research and career path

  24. CV & ePortfolio Station Questioning may include: • Biographical • Experience • Achievements • Why is it right for you • Why are you right for it Communication skills assessed Content of evidence folder assessed

  25. Presentation skills Sometimes given topic prior to interview • Flip chart or PowerPoint presentation Sometimes given topic at interview • Preparation time – about 20 mins • Flip chart Choice of subject assessed Clarity of visual aids assessed Verbal communication skills assessed

  26. Skills and Knowledge Station Simulated session • Communication skill • Practical skill Medical Scenario • Acute presentation • Management of chronic condition

  27. Ethics Station Scenario • e.g. underperforming colleague Approach assessed Communication skills assessed

  28. General rules for interviews Inform own team, rota coordinators etc Try to anticipate questions and practice Take the requested evidence with you Appropriate dress and demeanour Arrive in good time Say if you don’t understand a question Be yourself and be honest Say what you believe not what you think the interviewer wants to hear

  29. Allocation Process All offers will be made by the same day Offers can be declined or accepted (with/without uplift) or held (with/without uplift) Failure to respond by deadline = declined Can only hold one post

  30. Popularity of Specialties Highest fill rates • Dermatology, Palliative Medicine, GUM, Cardiology, Neurology Lowest fill rates • Acute medicine, Geriatrics, Diabetes & Endocrinology, some small specialities, e.g. CPT, SEM, Rehabilitation Medicine

  31. Clinical Oncology http://www.oncologyrecruitment.nhs.uk/clinical/home Hosted by HEKSS Application through Oriel Single UoA; rank LETBs at application Interviews in London National clearing of unplaced applicants with appointable score (Clinical Radiology hosted by Shared Services)

  32. Intensive Care Medicine http://www.ficm.ac.uk/national-recruitment-intensive-care-medicine Hosted by HEWM Interviews in Birmingham Dual CCT (same LETB) • AM, Renal Med, Respiratory Med • Stepped recruitment • Apply for both simultaneously, but can accept only one • Apply for other before end ST5

  33. General Practice http://gprecruitment.hee.nhs.uk/Recruitment Currently, very underfilled National priority so some incentives

  34. Non training posts About third ST3 applicants have taken a break May help get additional experience Advertised by Trusts/College websites

  35. i.barton@nhs.net

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