• Question: What’s Your job and what made you want to do it?

    Asked by tune11met on 30 Mar 2023. This question was also asked by safe11met, seek11met.
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      Clare Goss answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      My job is an advanced clinical practitioner and I mostly enjoy it because of the variety it brings. I also get to see people of all different ages and help them get better, and sometimes they just need someone to talk to because they are lonely or worried and it is nice to be able to give them advice and reassurance.

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      Yuen Say Toh answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      my job as a pharmacist and clinical director means I lead a group of people and also 4 practices. It is ever changing and I enjoy helping people to get the best out of themselves

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      Laurence Quirk answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      I am a programme manager – which means I manage lots of projects which support staff in primary care. Primary care is the part of the NHS that covers your local doctor. We work with the staff in Nottingham & Notts to make sure they have the right skills to deliver the best patient care they can and enable them to access education and learning opportunities.

      I’d worked alongside the NHS in charities for many years and after I was made redundant I was looking for other jobs. I applied for the job because it used a lot of the skills and knowledge I had form other jobs. I had managed training and learning for 500 plus staff and volunteers in national charities.

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      Kate Knowles answered on 31 Mar 2023:

      I came into healthcare because I believe the NHS is the right way to provide healthcare and i wanted to be a nurse. I am an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) – which is a registered healthcare professional (e.g. pharmacist, nurse, physiotherapist etc) who has done an extra Masters degree and now works very like a doctor assessing, diagnosing and treating patients.

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      Sarah Chalmers-Page answered on 3 Apr 2023:

      I am a freelance NHS manager, mostly working in service evaluation at the moment, although I have several jobs going at once.

      I went into NHS management because my skills are more around management – communication, evidence evaluation, asking the right questions to get a good idea how to solve problems – than they are around clinical work. I wanted a job where I could still help people.

      I work freelance because it allows me to work from home and set my own hours, and I have a child with some mild special needs so working this way is far better for them than if I still had a more formal job with a long commute. I think the NHS is getting better and better at flexible working patterns and alternative career paths, at least in the administrative side – obviously that’s harder for clinical staff.

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