Nurses (or anyone!) tell me about your promotion to an area outside your speciality?

[WhatsHoppening]

Name changed as outing.

A job has come up as a band 7 ANP which I meet all the criteria for other than it’s not in my area of expertise. I’ve done gynae then family planning (contraception) for 6 years and this is in fertility. However I have a lot of transferable knowledge, meet virtually all the criteria and have many of the training courses they request.

Would you apply? Is there any hope? I’m confident I would be able to gain the necessary knowledge fairly quickly as I’m interested and would put the time in to learn but thinking I may be written off due to lack of experience in that area.

Oh definitely apply! You may be able to do some online learning in the speciality first to show your keenness

Thanks @Onlythelaundryfairy I’m worried they’ll think I’m silly for applying but it’s a great job and I’d definitely do my revision 😇