About the Career Planning for Healthcare Professionals programme
This elearning programme has been designed for healthcare professionals, to help you make informed career choices and effective applications for your next career steps.
The outcomes:
On completion of the programme, you will:
- Have gained a deeper level of understanding of how you can ensure your future career planning is informed, realistic and robust.
- Have compiled a distinctive, thorough personal portfolio of research and reflections contained in a downloadable workbook, that can be utilised for job applications and interviews.
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Who is it for?
The programme is aimed at healthcare professionals who are in the early stages of their careers. It is designed to encourage exploration of career options, within healthcare, to support you in achieving your career goals. Courses are being developed for specific professions as follows:
- Career planning for foundation trainee doctors – update October 2019
- Career planning for core trainee doctors
– Core psychiatry doctors
– Core medicine/ internal medicine doctors
– Core surgery doctors - Career planning for pre-registration/ foundation pharmacists
Programme Structure
The programme is based around five sessions, with the first being an introduction to each course and the remaining sessions concentrating on the four stage SCAN career planning model as shown below.
Each course within the programme is accompanied by a downloadable workbook in which you can undertake some of the exercises helping you to create a record and reflections of your career planning which can be used to support applications.
Advice will be given throughout as to how you can access individual careers support where you need this to complement your online learning.
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Stage 1
Self-awarenessStage 1
By increasing an understanding of your:
- Values and work preferences
- Interests and skills
- Personality
- Stressors
You can use this information to prioritise what is important to you in making decisions about your career.
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Stage 2
Career ExplorationStage 2
Uses a structured approach to:
- Exploring options available
- Undertaking information research
- Exploring networks and opportunities
You can gain greater insight into the working environment.
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Stage 3
Arriving at YOUR decisionStage 3
At this stage you:
- Can gain greater understanding of decision making styles
- Make your own decision using the tools suggested
- Use the ROADS model to check how robust your decision is
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Stage 4
Next StepsStage 4
In this session you will be able to:
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- Set your goals
- Find out about the tools to help support you achieve these goals
- Explore specific goals in greater detail
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Meet the team
The programme has been compiled and designed by:
- The Careers team within Health Education England – London and South East
- Health Education England elearning for healthcare
How to access
In order to access the Career Planning for Healthcare Professionals programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the Career Planning for Healthcare Professionals programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Career Planning for Healthcare Professionals programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Career Planning for Healthcare Professionals programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.