Nurse want to change job...and looking for a job

gino_76ph

I heard about "nicer working conditions" on private clinics or hospitals but would they have the same benefits as that of an NHS nurse? based on what i know/heard...No. I could be wrong.

I'm still curious about this so-called Healthcare Advisers or Nurse Advisers or Nurse Assessors. can i ask what is the exact term for the job? I'm now getting mixed info if it is a "high-paying" £35k-£40k per year job or not? I'm also hearing of 40-hour shifts per week and you work two saturdays in a month. Is this true?

Fiddlestick

gino_76ph wrote: »

Also, what IT or computer course would be the most common or practical to take if i want to start a career/job on IT/computers/tech?

What - specifically - would you like to do?

It's a BIG field.

Fiddlestick

gino_76ph wrote: »

I'm still curious about this so-called Healthcare Advisers or Nurse Advisers or Nurse Assessors. can i ask what is the exact term for the job? I'm now getting mixed info if it is a "high-paying" £35k-£40k per year job or not? I'm also hearing of 40-hour shifts per week and you work two saturdays in a month. Is this true?

i have family that do this for a private healthcare firm.

I'm not sure exactly what they do but I believe it involves speaking to claimants and assessing their claims; essentially gathering and checking the details of the claim and assessing the medical impact of what the customer is claiming for.

The wages are nowhere near what you are looking for if you expect £35-40k per year - think what a glorified call centre would have to pay to attract a qualified nurse and you would have a better idea as to what to expect.

I don't know about the shift pattern but in terms of hours I'd expect a normal working week.

If it helps, the family member hates it and is now seeking a return to the NHS ASAFP.

MiddyMum

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I find your naivete of career options for nurses startling, if not a little worrying. Was you trained in the UK?

A registered general nurse of 10 years should know that in order to work as a school nurse you would need to be dual trained. You would need to take a 1 year conversion (last time I checked) in pediatric nursing. This would then allow you to apply for school nursing posts. You would not be eligible for a bursary, and you would not get paid a salary during this year unless you were sponsored by your employer.

gino_76ph

I was trained in the Philippines and then moved here in the UK 10 years ago.

At the moment the way it's looking i am deleting school nurse as one of my options. i am trying to concentrate more of a GP/clinic/medical centre type or healthcare nurse advisors or assessors over the phone type of nursing.

As regards trying IT (as a "back-up" career) i am more inclined to say something of a software support courses for computers like their Windows or Mac OS. not having much to troubleshoot stuff but more of the overall features & settings of the thing - guiding them where to go and what to do; i have a Macbook Air and i am now slowly getting used to the OS after having a Windows laptop for years.

Errata

I doubt you'll be able to earn much offering 'how to' support for people who want to learn how to use a personal computer; there are vast numbers of people already doing it to earn a bit of pin money or unpaid as a volunteer, and countless books/manuals/For Dummies and lessons on the internet for people who want to DIY it.
Are you regularly checking for nursing vacancies outwith hospital settings? Have you talked to any agencies about prospects? Can you make use of your diagnostic skills to diagnose what you want to do? At the moment I can't see that you're particularly interested in anything but are simply casting around trying to find anything you will want to do more than you do hospital nursing.

gino_76ph

I want to make this clear: I do not want a work in a hospital setup anymore. I am confident and can assure anyone that my assessment & "diagnostic" skills as a nurse are excellent but would like to use those skills in a different setup such as GP or a Medical (private or NHS) clinic or a call centre-type of thing where you "support" read: assess & advice clients/patients over the phone.

But as a back-up to all of these since i am good at tech & gadgets and a bit of computer OSes i would also like to take a leap into that. If its tech & gadgets i can easily adapt and adjust to them read: be able to find out how they work, make a review, etc. as to computer OS i would like to find a job wherein it involves software support read: overall environment and settings of the OS (not exactly a full tech suport) like now i am slowly adapting to the Mac OS X thing. What specific courses shall i take, etc.?

I hope that is clear enough.

Please....i need help.

Errata

Talk to these people http://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com/homepage.aspx

paddyrg

gino_76ph wrote: »

If its tech & gadgets i can easily adapt and adjust to them read: be able to find out how they work, make a review, etc. as to computer OS i would like to find a job wherein it involves software support read: overall environment and settings of the OS (not exactly a full tech suport) like now i am slowly adapting to the Mac OS X thing. What specific courses shall i take, etc.?

OK, so the tech blogging etc you mentioned a while back - TRY IT! Take the phone from your pocket, and review it. Then go to your kitchen radio, and review it. Seriously - you need to see if you're any good at it and get some practice before you stand any chance of making a penny, let alone £30k/yr.

Software/OS support - if you're serious, you're looking at at Network/Systems Support kind of role. Pick from MS, Unix or OSX and concentrate on it. Operating systems are complicated, they have many nuances, and to be of any use, you need to know them. You need to understand networking in this day and age too, as that's 50% of what people need help with. If you do 1 on 1 customer support on a private basis, you might make a couple of hundred quid a day. As an employee you might get 17-30k depending where you are in the country. It's not the land of milk and honey, especially with no experience.

What qualifications? Either the CISCO or Microsoft ones are good if you want to work in the corporate environment. Courses cost a few grand but you will find some cheaper self-study.

Remember the grass always seems greener...if you want the IT life, you start from scratch, this will be reflected in your pay.

azzabazza

I think to be a nurse in a GP practice you need some form of further training. For Health Visitor/Community Nurse you definitely need further training.