Managing Work/Life Balance for Returning Trainees (RTT12FEB25)

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SubjectSuppoRTT (Supported Return to Training)
DescriptionFinding Energy, Time, Support and Focus – Healthy CPD and Revision Practices for Busy Health Professionals Juggling Busy Lives. The introduction of children, eldercare, family health issues, or a move following a partner’s work, introduces many new struggles, questions and dilemmas for healthcare professionals. At the heart of this transition is the question for a new season of life: ‘How are we going to make this work?’ This course aims to help you navigate this time and feel more control and clarity in how you shape the next season of your life and work (including for dual-career couples or anyone following a major life transition).
Additional information
  • Please only book this course if you are available to attend the course and have applied for study leave in advance where required.
  • Please only book onto one instance of the same course.
  • If your availability changes, please cancel your place as soon as possible. If this is within one week of the course, you must email the team on england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net.
  • Online bookings for the course will close one week prior to the course start date. If you wish to attend after this, you must email the team and they will inform you whether this is possible.
  • Where the course is a multi-session course, you must attend all sessions.
  • If the course is virtual, joining instructions will be available under the documents section prior to the course. You must join the course within 30 minutes of the start time unless you have agreed differently with the course facilitator, otherwise you will not be allowed to attend the course.
VenueVirtual (Zoom), - Virtual  View details
Date & timeWednesday 12 February 2025, 09:30 to 15:00
LecturerRyan Offutt  View details
Target audience

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. Please only book if you meet this criteria. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.)

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

Course styleWorkshop
CateringNo catering
CPD points0.000
CostNo charge
Aims

This course helps returning trainees transition from life with an ‘independent’ career in medicine to an ‘interdpendent’ career due to the arrive of new children, life changes or increases in care responsibilities.

The course focuses on the work/life challenges that this moment presents, helping health professionals sustain their progress and development throughout this busy season of life, and using revision and exam prep techniques that are the most time-efficient and effective methods for busy professionals to squeeze into their demanding schedules.

Objectives

Course objectives:

  • The challenges of returning to work;
  • The latest research on dual-career couples and practical insights we can use;
  • Models of engagement and stress at work, and how they help us understand our experience of work;
  • The latest research into time poverty and attention;
  • Environmental, contextual, and social factors that affect our focus;
  • The latest learning science and how it applies to trainee medical professionals;
  • Research on behaviour change and how it can help health professionals with their CPD.
Learning outcomes

After the course, delegates will be able to:

  • Have healthier conversations and solo work processes (either with their partner about the new demands of being a dual-career couple, with more fairness and candour or on their own).
  • Get clear about the practical constraints (environmental, time, attention, focus) that limit your ability to do your work and find solutions that work for you.