Finding and building a career in the health sector Alan Simmons - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Finding and building a career in the health sector Alan Simmons Careers Specialist, Health Careers www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

A whistle stop tour of…  Roles in the health sector  Undergraduate and graduate opportunities  The changing health care landscape  Recruitment into employment and onto university programmes with NHS clinical placements  Pay  Evolving roles and treatment, and current workforce plans  Labour market information sources  Resources available from Health Careers, including new website  NHS Jobs website www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Workforce size comparisons 89,400 88,977 99,000 530,000 1,400,000 ???? 81,700 www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Roles in the health sector www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Staff in the NHS 2015 (approximately!) Support to doctors & nurses (eg HCAs, Doctors & dentists admin) 9% 23% Healthcare scientist & AHP support staff (eg therapy assistants, admin) Nurses & midwives 5% 28% Support to ambulance staff (eg HCAs, maintenance ) 1% Central functions (HR, Healthcare scientists finance etc) 4% 9% Allied health Health informatics professions (AHPs) Hotel, property Qualifed 2% Managers 9% & estates ambulance staff 3% 5% 2% www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Public health ‘core’ and ‘wider’ workforce  Around 40,000 staff in England, work in ‘ core ’ public health roles above level 5 of the Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework  Additionally estimated there are around 4,000 health trainers (below level 5 of PHSKF)  Estimated 15-20 million people in over 170 occupations work in the ‘ wider ’ public health workforce. www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Undergraduate and graduate opportunities (brief and in general terms!) www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Opportunities at university  Medicine**  Dental hygiene*  Midwifery*  Dental technology  Nursing*  Dental therapy*  Occupational therapy*  Dietetics*  Orthoptics*  Dentistry**  Operating department practice*  Environmental health  Paramedic science  Healthcare science (audiology) Pharmacy   Healthcare science (blood sciences, Physiotherapy*  cellular sciences, infection sciences) Podiatry/chiropody*   Healthcare science (cardiac physiology) Prosthetics and orthotics*   Healthcare science (clinical engineering) Radiography* – therapeutic &   Healthcare science (genetics science) diagnostic  Speech & language therapy* Healthcare science (medical physics)  Current financial support for eligible students Healthcare science (neurophysiology  * Tuition fees paid in full, £1000 grant and means-tested science) bursary payable ** NHS support from part way through course Healthcare science (respiratory & sleep  More information: NHS Student Bursaries website: sciences) www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Opportunities for graduates – clinical Scientist Training Programme (STP)  (8,000+ applicants for c240 places)  Trainee biomedical scientists (few posts now, STP and PTP main routes into pathology) Arts therapists (music, drama & art therapy)  Psychologists – (clinical, counselling, forensic, health areas), psychological  wellbeing practitioners  Accelerated/shortened (by way of APEL) programmes for graduates:  Dentistry** Current financial support for eligible students  Dietetics* * Tuition fees paid in full, £1000 grant and means-tested bursary payable ** NHS support from part way through course  Environmental health More information: NHS Student Bursaries website: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students  Medicine**  Nursing*  Occupational therapy*  Physiotherapy*  Radiography* (therapeutic and diagnostic)  Speech & language therapy* www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Opportunities for graduates - non-clinical Graduate Management Training Scheme (any degree discipline). Four streams:   Financial management (2463 applications for 25 places) Applications for GMTS  General management (5209 applications for 52 places ) starting Sept 2015  Human resource management (2836 applications for 10 places)  Informatics management (1156 applications for 16 places) Graduate Surveyor Trainee Programme (need RICS-Accredited degree)   NHS Property Services (8 places in 2013) Other “non - scheme” opportunities e.g.:   Health informatics (e.g. librarians, statisticians)  Operational management  Engineering etc. www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

…but don’t forget the many opportunities for “non - university trained” staff too! www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

 Approximately 50% of NHS staff do not hold a degree or professional/clinical qualification  Career framework (developed by Skills for Health)  ‘The Talent for Care’ initiative ( Get In, Get On, Go Further )  Increase in number of part-time pre-registration programmes  Apprenticeships and traineeships. NHS to create 100,000 apprenticeships across the country by 2020 in a range of areas within the NHS, including: – nursing and healthcare assistants – IT, estates and facilities – domestic and housekeeping services – business administration and accounting www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Apprenticeship vacancies* in the NHS in the last 6 months (examples) Great Warehouse/engineering Endoscopy apprentice Scunthorpe Yarmouth apprentice Health care support worker Apprentice nursing assistant Liverpool Portsmouth apprentice Apprentice IT Service assistant Hull Apprentice porter Stoke on Trent Simulation, clinical skills and Community Mental Health Team Truro Manchester resuscitation apprentice administrative apprentice Apprentice healthcare Apprentice maternity support Huddersfield Wirral assistants & phlebotomists worker Apprentice buyer Exeter Early years apprentice Epsom Patient Transport Service Apprentice fleet mechanic Stafford Birmingham apprentice Apprentice clinical support Business admin apprentice Maidstone Leeds worker Apprentice dispensary support Norfolk Healthcare apprentice Sheffield worker *As advertised on NHS Jobs (www.jobs.nhs.uk) www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk Candidates should also search on the National Apprenticeships website: www.gov.uk/further-education-skills/apprenticeships

The changing health care landscape www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

What’s your vision of healthcare? www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

But around 70% of healthcare is delivered outside of hospitals! www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Since Health & Social Care Act 2012… NHS Acute (hospital) or other NHS organisation Private healthcare provider GP Social Enterprise/ Community Interest Company Clinical Commissioning Group GP GP Charity GP GP GP GP GP GP www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Who provides NHS healthcare in England? Examples – NHS organisations Ambulance service trusts responding to emergency 999 calls and non-emergency patient transport service Acute/hospital trusts providing general medical and emergency services to the local population. ‘University’ trusts are usually major teaching and research centres . Mental health or partnership trusts. May also provide learning Community trusts providing a broad range of community- disabilities services. based services, e.g. district nursing, school nursing, adult social care, community hospitals. ‘CCGs’ commission healthcare services for its population NHS organisations with a national remit www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk

Who provides NHS healthcare in England? Examples Other providers Partnerships between the NHS and Charity sector other providers Partnership between 2 NHS Foundation Trusts (Guy’s and St Charities commissioned by the NHS to provide support through the Thomas’ and King's College) and service company Serco. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative Community health and integrated social care services in Hull, The East Riding of Yorkshire and Knowsley Community interest companies and social (The Hospital Corporation of America) enterprises delivering community-based services Independent healthcare providers Delivers community healthcare and adult social services Runs all local Hospital facilities provided to NHS patients through ‘Choose and previously provided by Care & support for mental health and Book’ service for certain types of surgery Bath & North East adults in the associated Somerset NHS Primary Swindon area services in North Care Trust and the local East Lincolnshire Council www.healthcareers.nhs.uk @HealthCareersUK advice@healthcareers.nhs.uk