Career development

The Healthcare Careers and Development Team provides career development support for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) staff.

For more information or to book onto any of the sessions listed below, please email the One Front Door Team.

• OneFrontDoor@uhb.nhs.uk

Individual career coaching

One-to-one career coaching sessions can maximise your opportunities at UHB by enhancing your personal development, improving performance and increasing confidence.

An initial six 60 minute sessions will take place over MS Teams or in person and will help you:

• raise aspirations
• maximise ability
• improve specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) targets
• develop confidence during interviews
• maximise opportunities

Group career coaching

The group coaching session can help to improve your job applications, CV writing and interview techniques. 

The 60 minute small group session will take place over MS Teams or in person at Heartlands Hospital or Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and will cover:

• Interview preparation
• Building communication techniques
• Developing interview confidence skills
• Providing structured answers
• Improving CV/application skills

In addition to the 60 minute session, a further 30 minute one-to-one session is available if required.

Let’s Talk: conversation group

Let’s Talk is a conversation group that supports staff whose first language is not English to gain confidence with everyday conversations inside and outside the workplace.

The small conversation group, with a maximum of ten people, will be informal and take place in person over six sessions. Agreement with your line manager must be agreed before attending the course.

Please note this is not an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or similar certified course, but a resource to assist staff with their daily communication with patients, colleagues and visitors.