Band 5 Interview Advice and Tips NHS and Private

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Today I have got my buddy Massoud here, my guy, and we're going to talk about interview tips

for when you go for your NHS rotational post or your static post or your private post that you want to go for

Massoud, I'll let you kind of, I mean obviously we're totally different

in the sense that I'm working in the NHS and the sues. Yeah, yeah. But kind of the general interview tips will be kind of the same, isn't they

Yeah, so usually when you're in. You're going for your first post as a junior physio

You will be expected to know the basics, like all your red flags, so clinical red flags

what are they, why are they used, what do they indicate, what are you going to do if it was actually present in a patient

You need to know all of that. I think you'll get like scenario-based questions where you might have to prioritize a particular number of patients

I think like off top of my head, something that came to mind is like someone who's just had a

neck of fema fracture, someone who needs to do a stair assessment to be able to be discharged home

another person who has like shoulder rotator cuff irritation and they're coming in for a follow-up

treatment and you need to give them exercises so that they can go off and do. And you need to

prioritize which one you would see first because the other physio who's supposed to be seeing them

are busy for whatever reason or they just can't see them. What are you going to do? And then you

have to just clinic, they're looking at your clinical reasoning. in that scenario and they're trying to understand what you would do, how you would literally

justify your actions. Being able to discharge people home safely and soundly is the number one goal

right? Yeah. So I guess in that scenario, the stare assessment would probably be number one for me

I'll go for the neck of femur fracture second because just had an operation and they need to

learn up, they need to mobilize because it's evidence to suggest that they need to put pressure and

Need to walk and stuff right yeah, that's it. And then the third one is obviously the exercises and I think that the exercises are put last because that person is not really impacted their quality of life that much

Still able to do normal day-to-day things. So yeah, that's what I do. Usually with the interview, they should ask you a little bit about yourself

So kind of what, you know, why are you here today? Why do you want to work for us? What kind of things make you stand out

Make sure that you've done your research. So for instance, you might say if you had an interview at Southampton University Hospital

Southampton General and say I know Southampton General is the biggest hospital that deals with the most, performs the most operations in the whole of the South East England or whatever

I mean, don't quote me on that. Just having done your research and just saying, look, this is how great it is

Say how great it is. Say that's why you want to work there. You might have a special interest in orthopedics

In which case you say, I have a special interest in orthopedics. And that's why this hospital looks great because it works and performed so many surgeries

So physios are so useful in that sense And they ask you about yourself as well like what kind of person you are Yeah I asking you what hobbies you have I mean I did have an interview where they asked me one question about myself and everything else was like questions about physio physiophysio like

knowledge yeah I was like that's when you kind of know they're not as interested in you as a person so

I think I got some red flags from that kind of that interview I sort of knew I didn't want to

work at that place but I'm not going to mention that place obviously because because they're watching yeah yeah no first way no absolutely you have to you I think you bring up a great point

When you're going to these interviews, just remember that you're interviewing them

We're going to bring your skills, your time, your energy to that place. So you need to see them as a potential candidate and not just someone that you are doing something for

It's like a power shift in your mind. If you come into the interview knowing that you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you

And that helps you generally in everything when answering questions and just your overall mindset going into it

And one of the other things I think just bouncing off your point, Matikas, is learning about the actual trust or institution, wherever it is that you're actually going to

Usually if you're going for like an NHS job, they have trust values

Each trust has their own values. It's basically like a mnemonic like C-A-R-E

Yeah, and then each letter stands for something of an attribute that each health professional in that hospital who works there should show to patients

And then once you know the trust values, make sure you have an example of a previous example of yourself in the clinical setting

You can kind of do this before you go into the interview. So you have something to say if that comes up

But generally, I think that if you do your research around trust values and maybe looking at the job spec as well

making sure that you're the right fit for that job and you're actually interested and you want to

if it's a good fit for the career that you want to have. Yeah

Yeah, I'm just kind of really good points. I think just having the prep done before the interview can make a huge difference

Like, as you were saying, preparing scenarios using the star formula, so situation, task, action, like result, response

I kind of cover this in some previous videos where I've made, what I've talked about kind of how to get into uni

how to get into a physiotherapy course at uni, but it's really just making sure that you are well prepared

and even have some questions prepared, as you were talking about, have some questions prepared for the interviews

because if they ask you at the end, do you have any questions for us? And you go, no, it kind of makes you look like a bit of a waste man

Basically. So definitely have those questions paired. So kind of from my experience, it's probably a bit different from you with your private experience

But when I went for an interview, most of them at the start, because I was trying to get a job during the pandemic, basically the hype of the pandemic

A lot of them were over Zoom. So I had one over Zoom, which was the one that didn't go so well

That's the one they asked me about myself in like one question

and they didn't really care about me as a person. But it's all about kind of how you take your failures

and take what you've done maybe what you could have done better in an interview

and learn from that and take it into the next one And that kind of what I did And it my next interview which is the place I working for now you know lucky it was actually face so I think that was a huge advantage you know make sure you written a good personal statement first because obviously they definitely screen through the really crappy personal statements and the good ones so make sure you have a good concise best statement if that like a video you want me to make in future I can just leave comment down below I could look at making one of those videos gives me a like as well if you like to see that mainly you know when I got in it was

The atmosphere was really different. I had three seniors in front of me, so it was a little bit intimidating

I don't know if that was the same for you. Did you have? Yeah. So I can remember before I actually got my private job, I did interview for one rotational post

It was at St. Bart's Hospital. I can say the name because I didn't get the job, so it's okay

Yeah. And in that interview, I did get a panel. So there was, I think, I think there was three or four people who asked me different questions

So one of them asked me about the trust values. the other one was a scenario-based question

The other one was like about anatomy and physiology. Sometimes they might ask you about anatomy

So different variety of questions from each interviewer. But generally I think that if you were to get a Zoom interview

which is like what's going on at the moment, I think personally I think that's a little bit lucky

because you don't have the pressure of going to the interview face-to-face

and sitting there in person. Sometimes it can be a lot more like nerve-wracking

knowing that you have to wake up, you know, get ready, put on a good set of clothes look good and make sure you're prepared and travel to the

destination of your workplace to have the interview that's a lot more nerve-wracking than having

a Zoom call in your house and you can literally just be wearing like your boxes but

i was going to say that actually just kind of going on you can literally be wearing like a top

suit and then nothing underneath yeah yeah but yeah i wouldn't recommend that just in case you

do have to get up and stuff but yeah i kind of i do i actually disagree with you on one though like

I feel like you build better rapport when you go in person, but I do understand like you feel less nervous because you just your face on the screen

I personally did prefer face to face. I mean, I mean, of course, for me, similar to you, you know, when you had that panel, you know, I had my panel and they asked me, we had, I had a neuros specialist, I had an ortho specialist, MSK, they were all like band seven or band eight

They sort of took turns and asking questions from the different areas of physio because I was going for a rotation post

So, you know, I had respiratory questions, questions about. kind of what would you do if you had a patient that was struggling to breathe and you just talk

about how you'd usceltate, you know, you'd check medical history things, just the kind of

your A to E assessment basically for REST. I had a neuro case, so I had a couple of neuro questions and I had some MSK and like orthopedic

questions and then some like emergency questions as well, what would you do in this situation

So it depends on what you're going for. If you're going for static MSK, you'll be kind of what Masu said

Or if a private MSK, you know, you have all those questions about like anatomy and red flags and things

But for rotational, they're a little bit more general and you cover more of the wide range of the topics

But that kind of my interview was actually I felt that was my best interview I think Okay You walk in you introduce yourself they ask questions about yourself and then you have the scenario questions

and then towards the end, they'll get you to do some practical, so I had to assess a knee. Oh, wow

So, like, Barris, Falgus, things like that. But I forgot, like, Lackmans, I forgot what it was called

I knew what it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I sort of demonstrated it to the guy who's interviewing me

and he goes, it rhymes with Macmans. I was like, oh, Lankmans, it came back to me

Other things to know, make sure you know you're like my terms, dermatomes. They asked me like what was what innovates the biceps and I said like I think

I said C7 was actually C6 but I beat myself up after that but then after that I knew so then that's

kind of key know your neuro stuff at MSK as well and then at the end of the interview they gave

me like a sheet with arterial blood gases so I had to answer some questions on ABGs which is more

respiratory stuff but that was my interview and it took me a while to hear back but I did actually

end up getting a job out of like 120 people I think so I don't know I kind of feel like a bit like an

imposter because I'm like, what did they hire me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I don't know what it was like for you as well

Was it kind of a similar experience? For the private job that I got, it was actually quite easy, if I'm honest with you

I don't know if that's just my experience or just how it was. But my interview wasn't as nerve-wracking as it was interviewing for the NHS job

The NHS job just demand a lot more prep work. The private one, I didn't really know what to expect

But after having done my NHS interview, for that interview, I had really done a lot of prep

So I think that I was going from that to the private one

It wasn't that tricky because I kind of knew what... I was well informed about the things that they could ask me

similar to what we've just discussed. So I had that experience already

I had done a few interviews similar to yourself, actually. Yeah, it was okay to do honest

But also I know that you went for, because your private's more MSK, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. So I suppose because you know you want to get MSK

you just prepared MSK, which is what you're good at. That's why the interview went kind of smoothly for you

Whereas for me, I know that like the other areas, like MSK was my area as well

So at the moment I'm doing a rotation at MSK outpatients, which I just feel so at home with

But then you also have to prepare for the others and make sure you prepare for your neuro and your resp

Because if you don't prepare for those two and you just prepare for MSK, you're a little bit stuffed

I think that's pretty much everything. You know, any questions like feel free to message Masoudarai

on Instagram. But like, of course, if it's been covered in our videos

then we will direct. particular videos but if there are any specific questions then feel free to ask

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