Career Planning

Career planning is the process of making and implementing career decisions. Ideally you should start the process in medical school well before your final year though there may be doctors further up the career ladder who are re-thinking their career choices and may need to start the process over again as they consider moving to a different specialty or even leaving medicine. There are resources and activities to support you whilst you are a trainee.

Careers Information and Advice

• Educational Supervisor/Consultant Support- Your educational supervisors and the consultants that you work with have a wealth of knowledge and experience that you should tap into. They can give you in depth information about their own and other related specialties and can guide you in pursuing a career within them.

• Careers Information on the Website -Health Education England, East of England career web pages provides an array of information covering almost all specialties and sub-specialties. The pages also hold information on a variety of topics such as medical CVs, application forms and how to develop careers management skills.

• List of careers leads in trusts (Updated Nov 2016)

https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/psu_careers_leads

1:1 Career Guidance Meetings and e mail advice

Career guidance is the process that enables you to make a well informed realistic decision about your future career. There is lots of staff available in the trust that can help you with this such as Educational Supervisors, Supervising Consultants, College/ Specialty Tutors, Directors of Medical Education and Postgraduate Centre Managers. However there may be some who need extra support and the Professional Support Unit at HEE, EoE can offer one to one advice sessions contact via psu.eoe@hee.nhs.uk