Career change: utilising your existing skills to secure your dream job

Are you looking to change direction in your career?

You are not alone. The pandemic has made many nurses rethink – or at least review – their career pathway.

So what do you do? Do you need to spend a lot of time retraining – or could you use your transferable skills to secure that new job?

This episode of the podcast hears from former associate director of nursing and midwifery Winnie George, who is now retention lead at NHS England and Improvement.

Like many nursing colleagues, the pandemic - and also her personal experience of being very unwell with COVID-19 - inspired her to look for a fresh career opportunity.

Ms George talks about her own career experience including gaining a tissue viability nursing role without specialist skills, and also how nurses can apply their existing skills such as leadership in care provision or project management to a new job. She also tells interviewer Nursing Standard editor Flavia Munn about the use of secondments to gain new opportunities and how flexible working and treating everyone as an individual can help to retain staff.

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