Leadership role in education Vs leadership role in the NHS?

[Tigerlily788]

Hi,

I currently work for the NHS in a non-clinical role (I am a registered nurse) and I'm interested in applying for a job in the same field I work in but for an education Trust instead of NHS. I'm not a teacher and I know teachers are generally overworked and very stressed, as of course are nurses. But I can't find anything about what it's like to be in a non-teaching leadership role within education and what how do people think that would compare to NHS? Or even without the comparison, what is it like to work in a leadership role in education? Do you end up just as overworked and exhausted as teachers. My experience in the NHS is that whilst my job is busy and definitely stressful, it is not as stressful as actually being a front line member of staff (in my experience, I know others may experience this differently).
I do like my current job and I do like my employer but the job I want to apply for is much closer to my specialty but would it be foolish to give up a good job in the NHS for a job in an industry I have no experience of?
All of course dependent on whether I'd even get the job but I'm still just trying to decide if I should even apply at the moment.

What role is it? CFO/COO type?

How would you get a leadership role in a school wifhout being a teacher?

I would think it would be really hard to be taken seriously (and I honestly don't mean that as a slur on you at all, I'm sure you're excellent, I just know how teachers think) in an education leadership role unless you've done some classroom time.

UNLESS you mean in a business manager/finance sort of capacity in which case I think anywhere would be nicer to work than the NHS at present. And there's no need to have done classroom then of course as most of us have no idea about the intricacies of HR or whatever managerial sector you're in. I think there's probably parallels in the budgets are an issue, staff issues are ever-present, but schools are still quite often jolly places to work and potentially a smaller 'machime' than an NHS trust depending on the size of the MAT or whatever it is you're looking at.

I thought you were going to be in education saying you were looking at going to NHS to which I was going to say 'try another school first' 😂

This is interesting, what’s the role? The only time I’ve come across non-teachers in leadership was when I worked at a college and they were very senior and ran it as a business not a public service.

As s I worked in a huge college like that once. Wouldnt the background be accountancy/business than rather than nursing though?

It's a safeguarding role so training and support for teachers and school staff around safeguarding issues. I have a lot of experience in this field and currently work as a deputy named nurse for safeguarding for a Trust.

Actually the more I think about it the more a move from one public sector to another, assuming it's a business function role, is quite a logical move and easier to 'sell' to an employer than someone coming in from a private sector role as it's a whole new world, isn't it 😂. I reckon it'd be well worth exploring further OP.