So, you’ve done it. You’ve typed up your CV. Applied for a new job. Got to the interview and then, success, you have an offer. Great! You pluck up the courage to tell your current employer that you have another offer. Then it comes. They don’t want you to go. They offer you more money, [...]
May 6
NHS management number drop but overall staff increases
Statistics released yesterday by the NHS Information Centre shows that the number of managers and senior managers employed by the NHS decreased in the past year to September 2010. Managers and senior managers total numbers have decreased by 6.2 % since 2009. However, since 2000 this figure has shown an increase of 66.1 % – [...]
Oct 27
Pharmacy Jobs UK
Simply Health Recruitment (www.simplyhealthrecruitment.com) is working with market leading employers, recruiting for Pharmacists in the UK. As a Pharmacist you will have the freedom to create the best pharmacy possible, so you will be looking for ways to improve procedures and operations and making recommendations and take relevant actions. You will share and implement best [...]
Oct 6
Community pharmacists need to be a jacks-of-all-trades
Community pharmacists are not only required to be clinically and service focused, but they will have to prove their business, management and leadership skills, according to the authors of an article in Tomorrow’s Pharmacist. Providing advice to newly registered community pharmacists in their article, the authors explain that employers want to know what assets they [...]
Jul 9
NHS shake-up ‘hands funding powers to GPs’
GP practices are set to be handed responsibility for most health services under ministerial plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS in England. Local trusts and strategic health authorities would be sharply scaled back to make way for their new role. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley believes GPs are best placed to understand patients’ needs [...]
Jul 1
Healthcare recruiters must provide ‘value for money’, says Bupa
As healthcare sector budgets come under increasing scrutiny, recruiters have been urged to provide ‘value for money’ by Nichola Hooper, national resourcing manager at Bupa Care Services. New health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced plans for family doctors to be forced to take back responsibility for out-of-hours care. Budgetary responsibility would then be handed back [...]
May 19
Pharmacists fear for job security
Lack of job security remains a major worry for pharmacists, the C+D and PDA Union Salary Survey 2010 has found. Over one third of respondents said they felt either a little less or a lot less secure in their jobs than they had last year. Employees at independent pharmacies felt they had the least job [...]
