All Careers development articles – Page 21
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Working group on women in medicine holds first meeting
The first meeting of the national working group on women in medicine took place this week.
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NHS work experience: a crucial stepping stone
In the second in our series of work experience diaries, we follow Lyndon, who spent a week at Southampton General Hospital two years ago
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Spreading the word about NHS careers
Taking part in a new careers initiative could help NHS organisations raise their profile among job seekers
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Careers: TGI Monday
Jobseekers have ranked healthcare management among the most desirable careers. Louise Hunt finds out why
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Health volunteering in Cambodia - tackling inequalities
In the latest of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about the drive to reduce health inequalities in the Cambodian health system
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NHS retirement: old enough to know better
The NHS Retirement Fellowship must attract younger members if it is to continue to represent ex-staff. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Mental health volunteering in Sri Lanka
Katherine Allen, senior mental health promotion officer at Rethink and former VSO volunteer, talks about the challenges facing mental health professionals in Sri Lanka and how British volunteers can help
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NHS work experience: getting on board
Work experience is a valuable way of encouraging people to consider a career in the NHS. In the first of a series of work experience diaries, we meet Cara, aged 17, a work experience student at Southampton General Hospital's radiography department
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Career coaching: put a positive spin on work
Sessions with executive coach Dorothy Larios encouraged one manager to address the demotivators in her working life
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Happy staff equal happy patients
Healthcare organisations with happy staff are more likely to have satisfied patients, the Healthcare Commission has revealed.
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Darzi drives doctors to scale the dizzy heights
The next stage review makes a priority of getting more clinicians into leadership roles. Alison Moore explores the implications of the workforce strategy for clinical professionals
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Managing NHS talent
The NHS needs to attract great leaders into the service and unleash the full potential of those it already has. Paul Gander looks at the challenges facing talent management
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Management coaching: project you
Isobel Gowan explains how she helped a client tackle a lack of self esteem and worth
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Career aspirations: what younger managers want
Long-held beliefs that Generation Y is self-absorbed, disloyal and impatient are a myth, according to a report published this month by the Chartered Management Institute.
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Health volunteering abroad: a lot to offer
HSJ catches up with VSO workers in Cambodia to find out what they are contributing to the country's health strategy
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NHS website aims to dispel career myths
A survey published by NHS Careers has highlighted the mixed feelings among undergraduates towards a career in the health service.
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Pension help for volunteers
Health workers who volunteer their skills overseas need not lose out on building their pensions, due to a new government support fund. Patricia Sloan explains
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Career coaching: work-life balance
Jayne Nicholas helps a project manager combine an ambitious work move with her more personal aims and commitments
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RCP to set out responsibilities of doctors and patients
A Royal College of Physicians working party is being set up to identify more clearly the roles of responsibilities of doctors and patients.
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Career Path: leading change in the NHS
Michael Scott's CV reads like a chronology of NHS reforms. So it is not surprising that his next move is into a London PCT. Here, he explains how his career took shape