STARTING A NEW JOB:
Before you start a new job, find out about accommodation, what will happen on the first day and when you will first be required to be on-call. The hospital medical staffing department will either provide answers or will direct you to someone who knows.
Make contact with the outgoing doctor and, if possible, arrange to visit a few days before you start to find out at first-hand what is involved and for handover of problems where relevant.
You will have to complete a health questionnaire, and may be asked for interview or examination. Make sure that you have an appropriate certificate of Hepatitis B immunity.
If this is your first job, ensure that you have completed Home Office and GMC procedures. If there is only a short interval between your successful interview and your start date this may require a visit to London with your papers, including your letter of appointment.
Before starting your first post in the UK you should have been given an opportunity to attend an Overseas Doctors Induction Course. These courses are run in various parts of the country, not necessarily where you will be working. They are provided free of charge, funded by the Department of Health, and you are strongly recommended to take advantage of attending a course. Enquiries about this course should be directed to NHS Professionals - Tel: 0845 120 3164.
On your first day, the hospital will almost certainly run a local induction programme. Make sure you attend. It is helpful if you contact your consultant to say that you have arrived and that you will be attending the induction. You can arrange to meet later in the day. During the induction make sure that you find out about anything that you do not understand or that is worrying you. Do not be afraid to ask questions.
If it is not already part of the induction programme, arrange to meet the senior nurses in the areas where you will be working, including wards, clinics or theatres, to introduce yourself and to find out what they expect of you and what you can expect of them. Remember that nurses are professionals whose work is complementary to yours; they are not the doctors' servants. Nurses can be enormously helpful to you or can make your life difficult; depending on the relationship you develop with them, so use this to your advantage.
If you require any leave in the early part of the job, for instance to sit an exam, contact the medical staffing department and your Consultant for approval before you start. Do not just assume that you will be able to take the leave, however important it is.
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