About Us News Events Search Quick Send CV Healthcare 01277 217 777 My Athona Healthcare Education Clinical Services Clients Work With Us Contact Us Tailored Support For You Athona Recruitment > Healthcare > Tailored Support For You In January 2020 we hosted our first ever Advisory Board with a group of our healthcare candidates to find out how we could be better supporting them on their career journeys. In April 2021 we held the first of our follow up events, to ensure we are continuing to do all that we can to offer the best tailored support for our candidates. A number of ideas and discussions were raised in these meetings including training, discounts and more, which we have started working on. CPD Accreditation CPD accreditation After receiving feedback our candidates would be interested in attending CPD accredited training provided by us, we looked to become CPD accredited ourselves. We are now pleased to announce that we have been approved as an official member of CPDUK and are able to run CPD accredited courses. Our most recent Advisory Board was worth up to 3 CPD points for every attendee, and we’re currently in the process of starting to plan more training where CPD points are available. Webinars Webinars We have partnered with financial specialists Wesleyan to deliver free, CPD accredited webinars, presented by their knowledgeable financial consultants. Since December 2020 we have covered topics including mortgages, pensions, IR35, investments & more. Hosted live on a weekday evening, they are informative and engaging with Q&A sections and are recorded to ensure you can rewatch, or watch at a better time to suit you if you can’t attend live. See what’s coming up next and register to attend here. Healthcare Workers Foundation Charity Healthcare Workers Foundation We’ve partnered with The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation; a charity committed to protecting the welfare and wellbeing of healthcare workers across the UK. HWF have launched an online platform, Healthchain, enabling access to a growing number of free initiatives, including childcare support grants, counselling sessions & wellbeing room support. Members can also claim a free Ally face cover on sign up! Use your NHS email* to join Healthchain today. *If you don’t have an NHS email, please contact Athona. Edgecumbe 360 Discount Edgecumbe 360 Discount We know obtaining 360 degree feedback can be a challenging process for doctors, so we felt Edgecumbe’s Doctor 360 was a great product to offer a discount on. We’ve partnered to offer reduced rates on all their colleague and patient feedback packages, which include use of a new user-friendly system with remote patient feedback functionality. Doctors can obtain feedback via iPad, or can ask a team member to send the patient a link after their consultation. This new technology solution overcomes the issue of paper based feedback, and is a much smoother and quicker process. Find the discount code here. Oxford Medical Discount Oxford Medical Discount Our partnership with Oxford Medical offers you an exclusive 10% discount on all of their courses and books. They run in person and virtual and online courses, with lots of course options to choose from including consultant interview preparation, advanced communication skills, medical leadership, management and much more. They also offer a vast range of books which provide in-depth information on the same range of career-development topics as their courses, which you can also get 10% off of. Find out more about the courses and books on offer and get this month’s code here. Accessing legal support We know on occasion as a healthcare professional you may need to access legal advice. Below we have listed a few organisations who provide a range of legal support and services: BMA – represents on behalf of UK doctors and medical students MDU – can guide you through the medico-legal aspects of CQC compliance MDDUS – provides guidance and specialist representation in all aspects pf professional practice Support, protection and guidance There is a host of tailored support and individual guidance available for you as a candidate with Athona to help you through your appraisal and revalidation processes and much more. We have our own dedicated Responsible Officer, Fahed Youssef who works closely with Tracie Spires, our Associate Director of Quality to run our appraisal, revalidation, support and remediation services. Together with the appraisal and revalidation team, since 2013 they have made over 500 revalidation recommendations and successfully delivered over 2500 appraisals. What tailored support is available? Click on each drop down button below to find out more: Appraisal support Support with gaining QIA (quality improvement activity) whilst working as a locum Tips and advice on collating colleague and patient feedback Revalidation support for doctors new to the country and NHS Personal support, complaints, GMC issues, and support with attendance at Tribunals Clinical and educational supervision Career advice Are you a healthcare professional and want to find out more about Athona and the tailored support available to you and the roles we have to offer? Click the button below to find out more. Find out more