Nurses who have a desire to enter the commercial world whilst still utilising their experience and maintaining their professional status and NMC registration.
Innovex needs people who are innovative and flexible - who relish a challenge and have the capacity to work alone whilst still contributing to a team.
Also, we want people with a commercial awareness balanced with the empathy and sensitivity to work deep within the NHS environment.
Skills
- Academic: The ability to take on new information quickly
- Communication: The ability to influence others
- Business: The ability to maximise opportunities
Personality
- Intelligence, initiative and common sense
- Communication skills, rapport builder and networker
- Persuader, motivator, and flexible in approach
- Empathy, tact and humour
Commercial Awareness
- Numerically and financially aware
- Agrees and delivers objectives
- A willingness to learn about the commercial arena
- Good knowledge of, and interest in, the NHS
Energy
- Self-motivated, enthuses others
- Ability to work in a constantly changing environment
- Works well under pressure
Practical Issues
- Willingness to cover a large geographical area
- Able to attend a 2-week residential training course on joining
- Willingness to attend overnight business meetings and conferences
"I do miss some of the social scene of nursing - going out for a drink after shift - but I love the independence and professionalism of being a Nurse Adviser"
Let's consider some of the things you may have been told about Innovex
“Being an Innovex Nurse Adviser is just like being a nurse but with better pay, a car and more freedom”
Hopefully, all that you have read will have helped to explain why this statement is far from the truth. While a nurse has patient, team and NHS pressures, the Nurse Adviser has patient, therapy, customer and commercial pressures - not more than a nurse - just hugely different. And yes, the pay and conditions are very different but so is the job - if you are even slightly considering this move for the rewards alone - go back and find out if it's the job you really want.
Read more, talk to people who are in the role and seek to understand if it's right for you. In many ways, the Nurse Adviser has no shortage of responsibility and accountability - more freedom, more commercial responsibility and certainly travels more and works alone for more of the time. Only you know if this will suit you.
“Moving to become an Innovex Nurse Adviser is a good way to 'have a change from' the NHS”
Let's be quite clear on this, best practice in career management is to 'move towards things you want to do, not away from what you don't like doing'. So firstly, find out about the role, see if it is of interest to you and then assess - would I enjoy this job and be good at it?.
Don't just seek to 'get out of the NHS' - it is likely to surprise you, make for irrelevant direct comparisons and overall, disappoint you. Move because you've 'done your homework', evaluated it carefully, and consider it's right for you.
“A couple of years with Innovex will help me back into a better job in the NHS”
A couple of years with Innovex will enable you to do many things, both within Innovex and possibly elsewhere. You will have gained many new skills, understand different therapy areas and have a good grounding in the commercial world.
In essence, a world of possibilities will be available for you, which will have been discussed and planned within your own Career Pathway.
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