All Careers development articles – Page 22

  • News

    Pension help for volunteers

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    Health workers who volunteer their skills overseas need not lose out on building their pensions, due to a new government support fund. Patricia Sloan explains

  • News

    Career coaching: work-life balance

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    Jayne Nicholas helps a project manager combine an ambitious work move with her more personal aims and commitments

  • News

    RCP to set out responsibilities of doctors and patients

    2008-05-14T13:12:00Z

    A Royal College of Physicians working party is being set up to identify more clearly the roles of responsibilities of doctors and patients.

  • News

    Career Path: leading change in the NHS

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    Michael Scott's CV reads like a chronology of NHS reforms. So it is not surprising that his next move is into a London PCT. Here, he explains how his career took shape

  • News

    Did racism delay the SAS contract?

    2008-05-01T09:00:00Z

    Staff and associate specialist doctors are often said to lack a voice. Could this explain why they were the last group to sign their new contract, or is institutional racism to blame, asks Daloni Carlisle

  • News

    Qualifications for managers

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    A company secretary qualification is offering expanded skills and career opportunities for managers. Scroll down for more information and case studies

  • News

    Induction programme for non-executives

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    This month, the Appointments Commission launches its new 12-month induction programme for chairs and non-executives.

  • News

    Coaching: achieving office overhaul

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    Elizabeth McGuirk on how teasing out some underlying problems helped a development manager to 'bite the bullet' and involve her team in change plans

  • News

    Career coaching for NHS board members

    2008-04-17T09:00:00Z

    Dorothy Larios explains how non-executive directors and chairs can benefit from coaching and invites readers to take advantage of coaching sessions offered by HSJ

  • News

    Career path: leader in mental health

    2008-04-15T09:00:00Z

    Jenny McAleese explains how she rose to the top of a specialist mental health provider and helped to turn around its finances

  • News

    Global health partnerships: from preparation to practice

    2008-04-08T09:00:00Z

    Patricia Sloan shares more of her experiences as a health management volunteer in Cambodia

  • News

    Training for the third age: responding to the needs of an ageing workforce

    2008-04-01T09:00:00Z

    As the country's workforce ages, employers and employees must dispense with the notion that some members of staff are too old for training and development

  • News

    Alison Irving on life after the health service

    2008-03-25T09:00:00Z

    A long, fulfilling career in the NHS can prepare you for things you never thought possible, as one former manager explains

  • News

    Coaching: ready to speak out

    2008-03-24T09:00:00Z

    Dorothy Larios continues our coaching series with a look at how she worked with a hospital-based commissioner

  • News

    Career Path: working in mental health

    2008-03-18T09:00:00Z

    Not many managers in mental health nursing can claim to have worked in the Royal Engineers and as a healthcare assistant. For Andy Johnston, however, it was those early experiences that led him to start nurse training in 1988. He is now a hospital manager. Here, he charts his career's ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    One man's vision for the future

    2008-03-17T09:00:00Z

    Former junior health minister David Lammy, now skills minister, tells HSJ about his plans for a more skilled healthcare workforce

  • News

    Work experience in the NHS

    2008-03-11T09:00:00Z

    Opening its doors to students interested in NHS careers must be a fundamental element of a trust's long-term workforce strategy, says Foluke Ajayi

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Learning to be unloved

    2008-02-25T09:00:00Z

    In the second article in our series on coaching, Isobel Gowan describes her work with a GP who is new to leadership

  • Comment

    Jon Restell on looking after managers

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    Managers in healthcare need to do more than ever to look after their staff. I don't have a problem with this; it's the right thing to be doing.

  • News

    Act now to avoid crisis, says RCN

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health must recognise the need to train thousands more nurses now to meet 'unprecedented' demand by 2030, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.