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STFS Careers Service
Lisa Stone &
Margaret Holbrough
Senior Careers Advisers
Tammy Harman
Careers Adviser
South Thames Foundation School
www.stfs.org.uk
The Careers Team
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Lisa Stone – Senior Careers Adviser
Margaret Holbrough – Senior Careers Adviser (p/t)
Tammy Harman – Careers Adviser
Sarah Marten – Careers Adviser (p/t)
Sanil Sansi – Careers Information Officer
Ria Johnson – Careers Information Officer (p/t)
Shipa Begum – Careers Website Officer (p/t)
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What we do
• Support trainees within STFS with their career planning
and progression
• Provide an impartial, confidential and effective careers
advice service
• Run careers support workshops in trusts for those who
give careers advice to trainee doctors
• Manage the NHS Medical Careers website on behalf of
Health Education England
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Career Planning Model
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Framework of a patient consultation
1. Taking a patient
history
2. Examining/taking
further tests if
necessary
3. Formulating a
diagnosis
4. Implementing a
treatment plan
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1. Self-assessment
2. Career exploration
3. Decision-making
4. Plan implementation
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Career Planning – Stage 1
Self Assessment
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Work values
Achievements, skills and interests
Stresses and strains
Psychometric instruments
– e.g. Sci59, MBTI
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Career Planning – Stage 2
Career Exploration
• Preliminary research – Medical Careers
website
• The ‘C’ word – competition ratios
• Researching options in more depth –
– tasters, networking, specialty champions,
person specifications
• Is the career decision realistic?
• Stages 1 and 2 are linked
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Career Planning – Stage 3
Decision Making
• Using a timeline of previous decisions
• A more structured approach –
– e.g. pros and cons, testing ideas
• Is the career decision robust?
• ROADS – realistic, opportunities, anchors,
development and stress
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Career Planning – Stage 4
Plan Implementation
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Application process
Portfolio/evidence folder preparation
Interviews and selection centres
Additional support
AGCAS DVD
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3 – tier careers support model
Underpinned
by trainees
working on
their own
career
planning
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Careers Support Workshops
• 8 per year run in Trusts for DMEs, clinical & educational
supervisors, Faculty career leads
• 4 stage model of career planning
• Exploring ways of applying this generic model to the specific
context of helping trainees
• Providing an overall framework for the career planning process
• Outlining basic career counselling skills that can be used in
discussions with individuals or groups of trainees
• Linking career support needs with the overall educational
goals of foundation & specialty curricula
• KSS: http://kss.hee.nhs.uk/education-and-training/about-careers/careerssupport-training/
• South London:
http://store.london.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=13&modid=5&compid=2
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Specialty Champions
• Aims of the scheme
• Responding to feedback
– Champions survey identified only 57% satisfied with
scheme in its current form
• Developments
– Updated guidance
– Champion training via webinar planned for April 2015
– Collecting feedback from foundation doctors
– Champion contact details in secure area of STFS website
• Appeal for additional champions
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What we offer trainees
• Workshops for F1s and F2s (1 – 3 hours)
• 1:1 drop-in sessions at trusts (30 mins)
• Career planning webinars (1 hour)
• Application to specialty webinars (1 hour)
• Individual careers referrals (available to all trainees)
• Management of careers information on STFS website
• The HEKSS and London Careers Unit websites have useful
careers information.
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New health careers websitewww.healthcareers.nhs.uk
www.phorcast.org.uk
www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
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New health careers website homepage:
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Explore roles page:
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Career planning tools:
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What has been said about us
From 1:1 sessions:
• A very useful session. A good facilitator who allowed me to
express my concerns and thoughts and who made good
suggestions
• All advice given on the day was very helpful. Person running
session is obviously very experienced in careers advice
• Useful to talk through options and get some impartial advice
• Useful session with good points to take away and work
towards
• Uncertainty is difficult to face but you have reassured me and
I’m so grateful for all your help
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What has been said about us
From Foundation 1 & 2 workshops:
• Very useful session with opportunity to practise interview
skills
• Very informative slides and hand outs
• Videos and online statistics good. Thank you very useful
• It was very helpful to do mock interview sessions, despite
dreading this aspect
• The timeline and differences about GP application were
very useful
• Very useful information and pointers for further research
• Made it all slightly less scary
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Resources for Trainers
http://www.stfs.org.uk/faculty/careers-guidance:
• Interview resource pack to help foundation doctors
prepare for applications to specialty training
• Statement of service for the STFS careers team
• Specialty Champions – information about the scheme
http://www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk/trainers/information.aspx
• Career planning introduction
• Tips for helping trainees
http://www.faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/e-learning/careersadvice
Careers Support e-learning module.
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