Returning with Purpose: Exploring Career Challenges and Rediscovering with Professional Passion (RTT19MAY26)

If you have ever found yourself questioning why you do the job you do, and feeling disconnected from the person who made that career choice in the first place, this workshop is for you. Come and meet others who have felt similarly, and reconnect with, or re-design, your career aims and aspirations. This is a relaxed, informal one-day workshop. The emphasis will be on exploring how you feel about your career in a non-judgemental environment. This day is completely independent from any discussion with faculty from your school.

The workshop is interactive and involves some solo reflection activities, and some pairs/small group work. You will not be required to share anything you are not comfortable with sharing.

What do I need to do to prepare? There is some preparatory work to do which will help you get the most out of the workshop

• Ensure you have something to write with and on. You may wish to use a journal or other confidential space for your work.

• Please complete the VIA strengths questionnaire: https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register It is free to complete and your report will be emailed to you.

• Have a look at the list of values in the document accompanying this course information and see if you can identify your top 3 (or nearly 3– can be more if you are struggling to narrow it down)

• You may wish to print out the Balance Wheel also included in the course information

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is restricted to trainee doctors and dentists who are taking time out of training or who have returned to training within the last 3 months. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.) Please only book if you meet these criteria.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To reconnect with your purpose and rediscover your professional passion, in light of time away from training

The workshop is interactive and participants will engage in both solo reflection activities and some pairs/small group work. Pre-session completion of questionnaire and online report recommended

• To explore possible impact that any change in personal circumstances might have on motivation for professional role

• To think through any concerns returners might have about the role they are returning to

• To reconnect with career and specialty choices

• To speak with confidence about their time out of training

• To engage in a safe learning environment at a time when (for some) learning might seem more challenging than in the past, and to build self-confidence in doing so

• To network with other returners and create supportive alliances.