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Career Change from NHS

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Hi everyone

I came across this forum as I was googling "career change to HR" and I'm really hoping that I can get some advice about on this subject.

I am currently a Therapy Radiographer in the NHS and have been for almost 10 years. It's a very physically demanding job, the hours have become more and more unsociable recently and this likely to continue to get worse in the future, opportunities to progress further than my current level are very limited because people get into the very senior or interesting specialist roles and stay there until they retire and I'm just at a point where I'm really bored of the profession and can't imagine continuing to do it for any great length of time. I have been contemplating a career change and I am considerng HR.

I have some limited experience as in my current role I am also a trade union industrial relations representative so I frequently work very closely with HR.

Some of the activities I do are:

  • advising members about organisation policy and law,
  • ensuring my department acts in compliance with the organisations policies and law challenging non-compliance,
  • advising supporting and representing members going through sickness absence management, grievance, disciplinary, capacility procedures
  • reviewing the organisations policies and procedure documents, ensuring they comply with law and national trends, redrafting documents where necessary
  • designing and implementing training to reflect changes to organisation policies and procedure
  • assisting to draft organisational change documents for consultations, reviewing these documents, representing staff by writing response documents
  • participation in policy forums and working groups
  • conduction personal development reviews
  • sitting on interview panels

I am wondering if any of this would contribute towards me securing a position in HR if I persued a qualification prior to applying. I also wonder what level it would be appropriate to apply for and whether the experience above would help me not have to start at the very bottom.

Any opinions would be gratefully received!

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  • Welcome A !

    In very distant past personal experience in a heavy and heavily-unionised industry with a massive workforce, trade union reps quite often 'changed sides' and moved into HR roles. Their past experience, albeit from the other side of the negotiating table, was considered invaluable; they were intimately familiar with all the particular site operations and respected and accepted by their fellow workers.

    In similar vein, unless you prefer a future not involving the NHS, think the obvious thing to do would be to have an informal chat with someone senior and receptive and potentially supportive in their HR function. They *ought* to realise the potential great benefits of such a thing happening, although finding someone like that within a vast public sector organisation like the NHS might possibly be a bit of a problem.

    Just a thought.

    Best wishes for future, whatever.

  • in reply to David
    Completely agree with David. I have worked with several HR types who moved from the Union side to the employers side, including a HRD who was brilliant at his job. I would hope you would be successful in moving into the HR world given your experience
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