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Jobs in radiography are another category in the health system

Contrary to what it might look like, allied health jobs comprise the majority of jobs within the health services. These are the occupations that are not immediately obvious on your trips to the surgery or hospital, but such positions lie behind and support the front-line professionals (such as doctors and nurses) that make up the health service. So, if you are looking for work in the NHS or health sector more broadly, there is a vast range of careers that you might be overlooking – jobs in occupational therapy and jobs in radiography, for example. These can take a very different training path to ‘traditional’ medicine or nursing, and so can continue to be an option for those who wish to retrain or move sideways into other types of work.

This category of jobs accounts for something like 60 percent of all the vacancies in the health services – a surprising number on the surface of it, but more understandable when you realise that these are just the behind-the-scenes folk that support all the work that the most visible staff carry out. These are the technicians who process blood tests, operate the x-ray machines, offer different kinds of counselling and physical therapies – all the work, in short, that needs specialist training of one kind or another, and that the doctors and nurses who do most of the face-to-face work and time on the wards may not be ready to do. Because allied health is a related but different area to regular medicine, it often has a different entry method. There are jobs agencies that deal specifically with allied health jobs, and can help you find all the vacancies in your local area or UK-wide that might be right for your circumstances, training and experience. These jobs would not usually be advertised in a job centre or possibly other normal jobs agencies, because they are specialist.

If you are looking for jobs in radiography, jobs in occupational therapy, various kinds of physical and speech therapy, diet or any other allied health jobs, then you would do well to try an agency which will recognise and deal with your needs, and that is consequently more likely to offer you the kinds of vacancies you want. These work both ways – for people looking for work, and for health services looking for employees. They are used to providing staff at short notice, and to matching job-seekers with suitable vacancies.

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Sales presentation training for businesses with ambition

We all know it; times are tough. When it comes to the bottom line, every bid for new business counts. It’s tempting to cut advertising budgets, sack the consultants and just try to keep running costs down. However, if your company is always coming second in bids for new business and tendering unsuccessfully for those vital bread-and-butter contracts, maybe, rather than try and find a new sales manager, it could be more economical to bring in some temporary expertise. If sales are where it’s falling down, there are now companies specialised in the whole bid support process from business proposal writing to sales presentation training and they could just turn things around for you.

As in all service areas, the vital word is ‘bespoke’. Maybe your sales guys are doing a wonderful job out there but are working with second-class materials. Tired PowerPoint presentations and brochures which make even the sales team yawn are not going to inspire potential new clients. Behind the presentations comes the hard graft of business proposal writing – maybe this is where you need the help. Or the inverse may be true – the team at head office put their everything into the details of the bid, which the sales team then fail to deliver effectively because of sub-standard sales presentation training.

Bringing in specialists in tender and bid support is no longer something that just major companies do. In fact, it’s precisely the smaller players in the market who can ill afford to employ specialists in all these complex areas full-time who can most gain from an outside team coming in short-term with new ideas and market-leading competencies to pass on. It’s also smaller businesses who most rely for their survival on winning new contracts. Suddenly, hiring a specialist company starts to make sense.

There are other bonuses to hiring a company to steer you through the tendering process. The bid support you invest in this time may well give you the confidence and expertise to handle it alone the next time you have a major pitch. Knowing you have expert help with your business proposal writing and that your team are receiving excellent sales presentation training can additionally give you a confidence at tender time which will be communicated in your bid. And confidence, when it comes to that big pitch, could be something well worth paying for.

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Social worker jobs have changed a lot in the last 40 years

Social work jobs are tough and intense at the best of times, leaving a small amount of room for consideration of the past, and thereby achieving more perspective on the present. However, Brian Dimmock, a principle lecturer in social work at the university of Gloucester, has finished a project to change that. Recently the Guardian reported on his project to compile more than 50 face-to-face interviews with a range of people in all types of social worker jobs. The interviewees range from very young workers at the beginning of their careers to older people, who have been in social services jobs for over 40 years; from students in their first jobs, to managers.

The interviews also include a range of workers from various regions of the country. Dimmock’s research took more than four years, and the interviews are unedited, ranging from 20 to 50 minutes long. The main reasons for carrying out this project seem to be to gauge the mood, or level of job satisfaction, amongst social workers, and to see how they think about their own profession. Also, the aim was to test whether progress is being made in social work according to the workers, and to see what has changed in 40 years of support work.

One of the conclusions is that people find that the rise of the management culture can frequently be frustrating, since it is perceived to result in a reduction in face-to-face time with the people they are supposed to be able to help. This is accompanied with frustration at a higher level of bureaucracy: the amount of risk assessments, incident forms and other types of paperwork has augmented consistently over the past 40 years. However, there were positives to come from the interviews.

The most noteworthy of the findings, according to Dimmock, has been that people in social worker jobs have stayed so positive about their professions, despite the many obstacles that they face. The profession does seem to suffer from a perception that, to begin with, one starts off idealistic, and ends up becoming ‘world weary’ as a result of the frustration of not being able to make as much of an impact as one had hoped. However, this does not seem to be the case, judging by the people in social work jobs interviewed in Dimmock’s videos. Social services jobs still seem to attract people who are motivated to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, and often as a result of their own life experiences.

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CIS payroll requirements must be adhered to in construction

If you wish to continue to work as a self employed or freelance contractor, it is worth, if you have not done so already, liaising with a contractor umbrella company to make use of the payroll services given by these companies. Not only will you receive cis payroll benefits (if you operate in construction), but you will have a greater level of stability this way, which is especially valuable these days. Even in difficult times it is still desirable to be self employed, provided that there is enough work available.

One reason for this is that self employed traders are often required to pay not as much in national insurance contributions to HM Revenue & Customs. Another is that by being self employed you have the ability to offset your work-related expenditure against the income tax that you owe on your earnings. Also, of course, you have the final say over what contracts you take on, or decline to take on, which can be invaluable, especially to freelancers with more than one profession: if times are busy in a contractor’s primary profession, he or she might reject contracts in his or her secondary profession until there is a fall in trade in the first. In other words, self employment is a good way to attach new strings to your bow.

Freelancers and sole traders from a whole range of different industries utilise the services offered by contractor umbrella companies. Whether you work in logistics, construction, teaching, Information Technology Services, or even social care, making use of payroll services can boost your earning potential and save you money at the same time. In addition, it can simplify the intricate procedure of ensuring that you are CIS compliant, according to the rules and regulations of HM Revenue & Customs.

A contractor umbrella company can provide skilled freelance contractors to its clients at short notice, enabling these clients to temporarily bring up their staff numbers in order to complete projects, without all of the associated hassles that they get with permanent employees, such as sick pay, NI, maternity or paternity leave, and so on. In the construction industry, however, all transactions made to sub contractors must be made in compliance with the Construction Industry Scheme regulations (cis payroll). Umbrella companies can provide payroll services to sole traders, pending a successful registration process, ascertaining, among other things, the sub contractor’s eligibility to work in the UK. They will have a system in place to process payments between themselves, their clients, and their sub contractors.

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Bacs payments are made using approved software suppliers

The Bankers Automated Clearing services, usually identified by the abbreviation bacs, is an organisation for processing payments in the UK. It is not for profit, and the scheme was originally created to facilitate electronic payments, lessening the need for paper documents where the transfer of money is concerned. According to its official website, 5.6 billion bacs payments were made in 2009 alone, accumulating a total value of £3.83 trillion. Large, individual companies are likely to make thousands of such payments, to the value of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of pounds each year. For such large companies, processing these payments can constitute a significant obstacle in terms of administration and paperwork. Accounts payable teams can, if the situation is not monitored, and an adequate solution devised, end up swamped in stressful, confusing, and tiresome paperwork. It is for this reason that many companies choose solutions involving specially designed bacs software.

Bacs is the best method of payment for managing automated payments to and from repeat suppliers and customers. Also, of course, it is perfect for managing salary payments, because of their regularity and consistency. In fact, there is a good likelihood that your salary has, at some point in your working life, been paid through the scheme, as this is how the majority of the UK workforce is paid.

When accounts payable is run inefficiently or on inadequate software in a business, this can have a knock-on effect that trickles through the entire range of aspects of that particular company. Worse, it can result in payment errors and vulnerability to fraud. The scheme provides a rigorous approval process for would-be software suppliers, to make sure that their software is adequate. There are several criteria, among which is the authentication of parties that communicate with Bacstel-IP, or, in the case of faster payments, Secure-IP. When a software supplier satisfies this and many other requirements, it will have permission to use the ‘approved software’ logo.

The bacs scheme is an effective way of processing large volumes of secure payments. Your company’s bacs software needs to come from a fully authorised supplier, otherwise you are at risk from insecure bacs payments and payment errors costing significant amounts of money.

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