Looking for help to move from a clinical to a non clinical NHS role - or other job ideas please

[Oneglimmerofhope]

Hi ,
Is there anyone that has moved from a clinical role in the NHS (I’m an AHP) to a non clinical role that would share their experience please? I’m thinking public health, health improvement, quality improvement. Or anyone with any job ideas if I were to leave the NHS - salary ca. £45k.

I’d really like to hear about jobs that let you switch off from work after a shift and that don’t keep you awake at night with worry. Do these jobs even exist ??

I went from clinical pharmacist in an acute trust to ICB medicines team - writing guidance, answering queries from clinicians and managing local contracts to improve quality.Decisions tend to be peer reviewed or go through governance/ committees so less personal responsibility. It works for me. We have teams looking at quality, strategy, transformation which include lots of AHPs.
it’s still NHS though - not patient facing but retaining pension etc.

@Newwindows Thank you, that sounds really interesting. I’m going to explore that a bit more to see if there’s similar teams in my area. Pension and annual leave allowance etc are definitely worth considering, so any suggestions like this are really helpful.

I am a social worker and I moved from A front line team manager role to a safeguarding lead in a private school. They have a lot of school counsellors in the private schools and loads of them are Ex NHS clinicians. Better pay, shorter days and school holidays.

Don’t know which ahp you are but I’m an OT and moved from acute to social services. There are definitely different cons. I find it very individualistic and miss working in a team (I was really fortunate with my nhs teams too). But they are very flexible, no weekend/ banh holiday working and all annual leave requests approved - all of these things were a source of stress on the nhs having school aged children x

@CurlyTop1980 @inabubble3 Thank you both for giving me more to think about. I have considered lecturing or teaching but would require a post grad which I can’t afford to do right now. I hadn’t considered other roles in education as an option.
I think if I were to stay a patient facing role, I’d probably stay in the NHS for pension etc, but might have a look at what else I could do in the local council.
Great to hear the move is possible and there’s been some positives.