Careers for
CMTs
February 2015
Careers
Bugatti Veyron
$1.7 million
No accessories
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Reminder about Career planning
• Self awareness
• Careers information
• Career decision making
– Have a plan B
• Action planning
– SMART targets
REMEMBER YOU ARE IN CHARGE!!
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Careers: Specialty Choice
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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
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Careers Information Websites
National medical careers website
http://www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
RCP Careers and Recruitment
http://www.jrcptb.org.uk
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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
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Showing you are committed
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Talk to specialists/trainees
Books/websites/fairs
Go on relevant courses
Do relevant assessments, audits and
presentations
• Try to get published
• Placements/tasters
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Careers “application” websites
HEE Speciality Training Website
http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk
ST3 Recruitment Website
http://www.st3recruitment.org.uk
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HEE Speciality Training Website
http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk
Processes explained
Timelines
Person specifications
Competition ratios
– By speciality
– By LETB
Sample application forms
Applicant Handbook 2015
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ST3 Recruitment Website
www.st3recruitment.org.uk
• Specialities hosted by the Speciality
Recruitment Office (SRO) of the
JRCPTB
• 20 specialities (some details on other
12)
• Timelines
• Adverts: Feb 11th
• Application Feb 17th - March 11th
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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 individual
LETB/Cluster/Nationally
• Single cascadable application system
• Single transferable score
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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
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Single Transferable Score
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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
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Advertisement and Applications
• Check LETB and College websites regularly
• Advertised
– NHS jobs
– BMJ careers
– College/LETB websites
• Narrow window
– Don’t leave it until the last minute!!!
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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
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Application Form Part 2
• Section 1: Evidence of competence and
experience
• Section 2: Employment history
– Including gaps
• Section 3: Evidence of meeting selection criteria
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Scoring of Application Forms
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Additional degrees
Prizes - National
Presentations
Publications
– Peer reviewed
– Relevant to speciality
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“White boxes”
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Achievements outside Medicine
Commitment to Speciality
Word count limited
Be succinct; good grammar and spelling
“Situation, Action, Result”
Do not plagiarise – be honest
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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)
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Academic Interviews
• Candidate’s past research experience
– Methodology and outcomes
– Underlying “science”
• Recent important research in chosen
speciality
• Candidate’s proposed research
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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
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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
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Skills and Knowledge Station
• Simulated session
– Communication skill
– Practical skill
• Medical Scenario
– Acute presentation
– Management of chronic condition
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Ethics Station
• Scenario
– e.g. underperforming colleague
• Approach assessed
• Communication skills assessed
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General rules for interviews
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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
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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
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Popularity of Specialties
Highest fill rates
– Dermatology, Palliative Medicine, GUM,
Allergy, Cardiology, Neurology
Lowest fill rates
– Acute medicine, Geriatrics, Diabetes &
Endocrinology, some small specialities,
e.g. CPT, SEM, Rehabilitation Medicine
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Non training posts
About third ST3 applicants have taken
a break
May help get additional experience
Advertised by Trusts/College websites
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