irrespective of your um years of experience of practicing outside the uk
as a healthcare professional or as Nurse to be specific when you come uh or migrate into
the uk you are starting at Band 5 so that is the first level of um band for the nurses that
is after qualifying after getting your pin this has become a worry for most overseas
people who have been are very keen on a career progression people have been asking
how fast they can progress because um it's it's it's i wouldn't say it's sad but it's
worrying after practicing for five years four years or even 10 years and then you
come into the uk and you are starting at band five this has been a dilemma for most people
however there are other people that also have just a year of experience who have just started
um as newly qualified nurses in the uk and are very ambitious
and therefore want to progress with their um with their profession um this is the right video
for you we are going to look at the fastest and the easiest way uh to become a band six
or to progress sns um stay with me right here and i will delve into it after the breeder
yeah so basically um it takes between average averagely takes like 18 months
for you to become a band six from from because from band five to a band six but this isn't always
the case as it is relative people have progressed very early and very as a very fast piece
so it is something that is doable um especially when it happens that you've qualified and you have
lots of experience before migrating into the uk um there are some key things that i would want us to
touch on or have a look at and that that is going to help you in your journey or in your
progression uh first of all um you have to know there are two things um or too many categories in
in in progressing progressing within the nursing uh fraternity that is we have progression through
uh we have a clinical progression or progression through the clinical routes and progression
through the um through the managerial routes so you can either become a band six um
as a clinician or you become a band six as a manager or become a band seven as a banjo or band
six as a clinician or to the clinical route or let me say a specialist so you have to have this
at the back of your mind um the other key thing is that you there are things that you have to
identify that is what's going to help you to know whether you are actually ready for progression or
not as progression isn't for everybody or isn't for anybody at all um you might have found one or
two people on your wall or in your hospital where you work that have been banned fire for 20 years
for 25 years and you're still banned five it isn't that there isn't um any progression for them but
they don't probably want to take any additional responsibility and they feel comfortable working
at band five so you have to know yourself and um don't blame them i don't blame them
at all but do not let them let them become a hindrance or source of discouragement for you
by seeing that somebody on your word has practiced for ten years or five years and so bad five no
it doesn't work that way you can progress as fast as you can so these are some of the things to look
out for this is what is going to tell you whether you are actually ready for for a higher position
or higher band or not one if it happens that most of the time your colleagues on the wall do consult
you or seek for your advice on certain things most especially on clinical matters or making clinical
decisions then it means you are getting there you are you are you you'll be able to chaperone
you'll be able to supervise you'll be able to mentor others therefore you can now decide to
take um a bolder step to to move ahead um two if it happens that most of the things of the world
you are being called upon you are being asked to do that you have been given the toughest tax
on the world you have been asked to manage the most difficult patient on the world you know then
it means you have their qualities you have that skills people might not tell you directly but
these are some of the things that your manager your line managers the award sisters the charge
nurses the metros will be looking out for so when you realize that anytime there's a difficult
patient on the ward you are the one being called upon to i mean take care of them or be there
allocated care for the day they know that you are getting there and that is another thing so um
these are some of the things again you could do to help you become a fan six like this
so one of course as we all know is for you to be initiative we want people to be very nice don't
beat out don't be always waiting for orders or instructions before you take a clinical
decision or make a bold step you have to take initiate you have to take charge of the shift
you have to stop panicking okay if you have to show that you are ambitious and you can actually
leave their shifts yeah so we have to show we have to see that quality in you also you have to do a
lot of training i know we are here for the money yeah but charlie most of the oversee nurses work
five days six days in a week and don't have time for trainings there are trainings everywhere do
not uh look down upon the e-learnings you have on your on your company uh website or your trust
website the mandatory trainings please always make sure you're up to date also there are trainings
trainings you can get outside your organization like the he website the health education
england website there are a lot of trainings that you can get there as a clinician sns that
will boost your confidence and also increase your knowledge of broadening your knowledge base sns
also you have to put yourself up to tax okay you have to um and be be approachable you have
to be forthcoming when there are issues and and they're asking for ideas on the water or yeah if
you asking for recommendations and all that you have to be able to be to contribute i mean your
culture you have to speak up it isn't always be like you are quiet and you are so laid back
you can't be a leader who is very slowly i mean laid back also you have to build up networks
talk to people on your award be friendly be approachable people on the other words
even people from other companies people from overseas and i like people from other trust
you have to be networking it's always about homework sleep homework sleep homework sleep no
i have to get interactive link it in share whatsapp contact join our sub
groups for analysis and like-minded people be sharing ideas you have to build up networks
you have to attend forums and almost all of us are joining unions like unison like rcn you know you
are you subscribed with nesting times keep up to date you will be reading news charlie you are in
uk always be watching ajaku and uh goku menu and doctor like you you know charlie spend some time
reading the nation times nesting rcni news bulletin about nesting and all that
current changes see even on the nmc nmc website is not only for your cbt and you're asking ah
there's always news you know new clinical research and all things coming up always
on instagram watching blue snap charlie watching how people already made it to life long term they
are riches uh it doesn't add anything knowledge wise to just your scope of practice so use that
little that time if you watch a little movie you watch uh those entertainments news and other stuff
focus on the health news as well and keep updated you have to keep updated keep yourself updated
i say i attend webinars and all uh events job fairs organized by nursing times organized by rcn
and and other health um outlets just to um broaden your knowledge base on the necessa
on nursing also most importantly take your supervisions very very serious submissions
and appraisers with your line manager always seek for supervision don't wait for your supervisor
allow me manager to come to you always don't wait till there's a problem before you go for
supervisions at least once a month you can go to first person talk about your career development
areas that you think you need help and support with discuss with your money your line manager
um probably um nursing fields or things that you are interested in as i said discussed it i'm
saying all these things to channel or draw your attention to the fact that in as much as you are
making money or doing a lot of [ __ ] you have to think about career progression
if you really want to make money quick you have to progress in your career invest in yourself
invest in your training trust me because as a band six or a band seven if you do over time
you get more than ever and five anyway so the money you you make in two days is what's
probably about five we get in three or four days that's just what i'm saying so yes
uh if you progress and and invest in yourself and in your career and all that and get to the top
you end much more and i wouldn't say the job is a bit easier but excuse my language you you are you
are far away from the donkey drops you don't do them anymore all right now let's look at
um some positions that are classified as band six automatically as i indicated there
are two two routes you can either go to the clinical route or go to managerial some people
naturally are not managers they can manage people okay however they have interest in progressing
so if you want to progress um you can still go get a higher band bastard clinical because a very good
clinically good okay you are good on the world you are good in doing stuff how good in patients
care so you can still do that and still forget to get a help and as i said don't let the people
who have spent five six years 20 years 25 years at span 5 discourage you they are there because
they want to be there okay you can progress very quickly so band six senior toughness team leader
junior nurse practices community astrologists all of these people are band six as i said you can go
through the specialist route so if it happens that you find yourself being interested in working in
a particular clinical setting so for instance you are in an adult world probably on a medical world
however always realized that most of the time when you are picking a bank shift or
picking an extra shift you enjoy working at the a e or you enjoy working at the i.t or
icu then you can do us permissions and all that and through courses available in your trust and
otherwise other places you specialize in that you can start to become an itu nurse or icu nurse
okay or in a e emergency nursing provider you get a qualification and work for some few months you
automatically you become bad sex your your band changes okay or if it happens that you realize
you have interest okay in uh taking care of special conditions so how interesting is special
disease condition like hypertension like diabetes like um oncology cancer and all that
yeah so you focus on those ones you can become a diabeticness um and public healthness and all that
you realize on automatically this also changes your band you don't become a band five
so these are the if you want to go to a clinic specialist or clinical routes this is where you
have to look at again for general analysis let me give you this apo let me give you this uh
hot point if it happens that while genuine is and you can pick up a rule in a mental
health hospital to work as a practice nurse so basically what practice nurses do is that
they do all the physical health observations they take blood so venipuncture um they do ecgs they
book gp appointments fundamentals patients and all that so you don't um serve bed plants you
don't serve commodes you don't treat pressure sauce and vegetables because they are not bad
okay they can do most of the stuff themselves and automatically most of them are band six
yeah so if i have practice network in a mental health setting um fourth time you can end 32
3034 and above depending on your work pattern and if you happen to if you want to do part-time
which is almost just two days so the two days um that's part time you can end around 27 28
some places 26 000 per annum and the two days is either work too long this or work nine to five for
two days and that's it you don't do a lot of the increased deity jobs all you do is just the blood
or serve their physical ups which is like once a week and all that book gp appointment and all that
and you are gone for those who are naturally there so i want to go for the managerial rules you can
target charge charge nurses forward sister dp2 word manager even senior staff nurses they are
all um that is the managerial role up to award uh manager yeah so these are the two routes exactly
there's a clinical route and is the managerial route um so they are all band six you can engage
in secondments when those academic opportunities come up it's a good opportunity for you to
show your potential exhibit your skills and go for it um if you see any position for intel you
go for it if you feel the first until you go for the second interview if you feel for the second
interview go for the third interview that's not the end of the world keep going so you get what
you want do not be despair do not get this pair one one will not spare when you just fill one
interview and as i say anyone who is here and um is interested in picking up the advances
positional passive position i'm happy to help just uh link up to my whatsapp or their telegram
page uh facebook you can dm me on instagram you can dm even snap you can dm i'm happy to help
i can take you through the advanced six questions so i've been about seven questions i can give you
that one-to-one support coaching and mentorship that you need to progress um i'm happy with that
if you see any um job um whatever you want to go for it go for it okay occupational health public
health negotiations school nurses how to visit tests they are all banned six by seven rules
depending on your experience so they are always of you moving from the band five okay um yeah
it's interesting it's interesting when you are a bank sister about seven it's it's there's this um
high self-esteem there's this fulfillment you are able to effect change positively who you
are including i mean you get involved in decision making and it feels good you know it's in its food
good and on top of it the pay is good as well um there are a lot of opportunities for you as well
um the near future so yeah um i wish this video was informative and as i always said kindly
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