I'm currently in a band 6 nhs job, I'm a health care professional in fairly niche area (not a nurse!). I have become very dissatisfied where I am - the management team are incompetent, but unfortunately my options to work elsewhere are very limited without moving the family which would create childcare problems as we are close to my parents.
I'm wondering how easy it would be to switch to the corporate side of things and maintain banding? I guess it would be quite tricky as my experience largely wouldn't be relevant sadly. My job involves a bit of patients, a bit of admin, a lot of using specialist software which I am more highly trained in than rest of team.
I am also going to keep an eye on private companies but again its tricky to transfer something so niche. If I stick to specifically what I do my options will be very limited as so few opportunities.
I feel I need to widen the scope of what I could do but not sure where to start.
I have considered retraining (I looked at accounting or cybersecurity as I wanted something with more earning potential) but I think the initial salary drop would be too difficult to manage for the family (2 young kids, DH also nhs but lower band).
I'm open to ideas. Please help!