About C2 Careers
Providing career advice to doctors for over 100 years
C2 Careers, which is part of the University of London and The Guardian Group, is a not for profit organisation that provide specialist career advice to the medical profession. In partnership with BMA Careers Services, this service is now available to BMA members through:
C2 Careers have been delivering impartial and confidential advice to the medical students for over 100 years and to experienced medical professionals for nearly twenty years.
With a team of expert career advisors and coaches, C2 Careers have worked across London’s Foundation Schools as well as the medical staff at several London hospitals and deaneries and have helped them tacle an extremely diverse range of career issues.
For further information about C2 Careers, visit their website on www.c2careers.co.uk
About Healthcare Performance Ltd
Healthcare Performance are working in partnership with BMA Careers Services to help BMA members with their career development needs. Dr Emma Sedgwick and Dr Mike Roddis are using their combined expertise and experience in medicine to provide career management and professional development workshops, on topics such as:
- Surviving the NHS
- Managing the transition from junior to consultant
- Life after medicine when retiring
- Love the job you have
- Work life balance
Profile: Dr Emma Sedgwick MBBS BSc MRCPsych DCH MBA NLP Coach
Emma qualified from the London Hospital in the early 1990’s. She was interested in a career in child and adolescent psychiatry and spent a year in paediatrics before completing her general psychiatric training on the Guy’s rotation in South East London. She did her child and adolescent psychiatry SpR training at St Mary’s in North West London.
After experiencing a traumatic incident with a psychiatric patient, Emma left medicine and gained employment with the Medical Defence Union (MDU). For eight years Emma was a medico-legal adviser and clinical risk manager at the MDU. During this time she completed an MBA at Henley Management College. At the MDU, Emma worked on many projects including medico-legal and elective study projects for medical students and junior doctors, workshop design and delivery and risk assessment in general practices.
Due to her clinical and management experience she became interested in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and became a certified NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner and achieved Certified NLP European Coach status, after training with Ian McDermott, recognised as one of the best coach trainers in the UK.
Emma is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is currently seeking the first level of accreditation.
She has recently undertaken a career coaching course with Career Counselling Services, which provides her with a licence to use a number of career planning exercises. She began a Postgraduate Certificate in managing medical careers in January 2008, the first course of its kind in the UK.
Dr Mike Roddis
Mike Roddis qualified as a doctor in 1978 from Manchester University. He started his training in pathology in the West Midlands region before becoming senior registrar in chemical pathology at the Hammersmith hospital. He took up his first consultant post in 1985 at Barnet and Edgware hospitals becoming clinical director of clinical support services in 1988. He gained his MBA in 1990. In 1994 he moved to the Homerton hospital as clinical director for surgery and clinical support services and became medical director of The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex in 1996. He left the NHS in 2002 to become an independent medical management consultant.
Experience:
- NHS board executive director:
- Medical director of an acute hospital trust for 6 years; including strategy development, policy formulation and several periods as acting chief executive.
- Clinical governance
- Medical performance management
- Medical Management Consultant
- Performance management
- Clinical service review
- Running aspects of performance management for a large east London PCT
- Evaluating a major pilot of innovative provision of community clinician care in east London
- Retained as medical adviser to a large locum agency, providing advice and counselling to doctors on appraisal, career and professional development as well as investigating and dealing with complaints and clinical incidents within the NHS on behalf of the agency.
Recent publications include articles on dealing with difficult doctors, senior medical career development, image management and the need for medical management skills in medical consultants for the Health Service Journal and the BMJ group.
For further information about Healthcare Performance Ltd, visit their website on www.healthcareperformance.co.uk