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Standing out from the crowd & the ‘informal visit’

Standing out from the crowd & the ‘informal visit’. How are posts filled in 2011?. Offers to Trainees currently or formerly in post Discussions at Trainers’ Workshop Recommendations by Trainers to their colleagues Offers to locums Offers to existing salaried doctors

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Standing out from the crowd & the ‘informal visit’

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  1. Standing out from the crowd& the ‘informal visit’

  2. How are posts filled in 2011? • Offers to Trainees currently or formerly in post • Discussions at Trainers’ Workshop • Recommendations by Trainers to their colleagues • Offers to locums • Offers to existing salaried doctors • Opportunistic e-mails from GP Trainees • Adverts in the BMJ

  3. Making yourself stand out from the crowd! • Reputations are built during your ST years • Useful skills and attributes should be acquired in ST2 and ST3 • These can be clinical skills or personal and professional attributes. • Choosing your referees

  4. When and how to market yourself • During training • After training

  5. Your Ideal Practice • Factors to consider • Location • Implications for your family • Nature of the practice – physical & cultural • Nature of the partners, sex, age, dynamics • Income e.g. partnership share, outside work • Organisation of the practice • Training Practice? GMS? PMS? DAZI? • The team dynamic

  6. Discuss in pairsMust / Must not haves • Personal needs • Desirable features in looking for a practice • 3 things which are essential in a practice • 3 things that you definitely don’t want

  7. DEARNE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE SOUTH NETHERSDALE

  8. Informal visit preparation • Who to ask? • What other resources can be exploited? • The drive through • What are the important questions to ask – before and during the visit? • Things to do on the day

  9. What you need to look out for! • Smiley happy staff? • Quiet, efficient or obvious chaos? • Reaction of staff/doctors to you being taken around • Condition, layout and room occupancy of the building? • Car Parking • How are surgeries, visits, clinics, on call and extended hours organised and what is your expected contribution to these?

  10. The three questions you must ask! • What is the practice looking for from the new partner? • Are there any practice developments in the pipeline? • In which room will the interview be held and who will be on the panel?

  11. Questions you are likely to be asked Working in pairs identify the likely questions you may be asked at the informal visit?

  12. Questions you are likely to be asked • Why are you applying for this post? • Why Nethersdale? • What do you feel that you can bring to the practice? • What are your strengths? • What are your clinical interests? • What are your personal interests? • What outside commitments do you have? • Can you do extended hours or specific days? • What question do you have for us?

  13. What might they be looking for? • Empathy/caring (for other partners and staff) • Interpersonal skills (ability to build rapport with patients and colleagues) • Sociable/cheerful/fun • Self confidence (including knowing and admitting when wrong) • Decision making/living with uncertainty • Organisational skills (able to prioritise) • Good team player • Copes with change/flexibility/achievement drive (open to new ideas, looking for self-improvement)

  14. Wrapping things up! • How to finish the informal visit • What next

  15. Coffee time!

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