When I stepped down from my role as a Clinical Workforce Manager last month, I didn’t have a clear plan. I had many reasons for leaving, but no defined next step.
I turned to AI for a solution. Specifically Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot (Sonnet 4.5), mainly because I had already been using it to support my work in the role I’d just left and my subscription was still active.
The new task was to refine and update my curriculum vitae. I had several versions on file, and they each showcased different career paths I’d explored. I hoped there was a way I could combine them to find my perfect job.
I had my relatively up-to-date healthcare CVs – one for internal applications at my organisation and one for external roles. Aside from my healthcare vocation, in the past I have explored my journalistic itch as writer and broadcaster on issues that crossed from healthcare into videogames. Two CVs had spawned from that era, one focussed on my literary attributes and another an unsuccessful attempt to pivot into the videogame industry.
I handed them all to Claude and prompted it to make me a new CV with suggestions on what to do next.
PROMPT: Review attached files to refine my curriculum vitae with a view to formulating next personal development steps toward embracing AI.
What I got was so much more than that.
Almost unbidden, Claude produced an entire multi-document career pivot strategy, with recognition of my current value, identification of skill gaps, recommendations on additional learning, and clear objectives with a step-by-step guide on how to get there.
However, I’d failed to mention that I’d already resigned, so Claude’s first output was very much focussed on pitching AI pilot projects to what it understood to still be my employer. After I broke the news that I’d left, Claude got very excited (if you’ll forgive the anthropomorphication, I know it’s just a chatbot powered by a Large Language Model).
CLAUDE: “Your timing is actually perfect. Healthcare AI is exploding right now, and the NHS is under massive pressure to innovate. Your combination of:
– Authentic clinical credibility
– Management and implementation experience
– Communication skills
– Willingness to learn new technology...is exactly what healthcare AI companies are desperate for. They have plenty of AI engineers who don’t understand healthcare, and plenty of clinicians who don’t understand AI. You’re building the bridge.
The fact that you’re not constrained by a current job means you can be completely dedicated to this transition. Many people try to upskill while working full-time and struggle. You can do this intensively and properly.”
Which, put like that, is a pretty convincing (or seductive) argument. In any case, it made me feel better about my choice (as dangerous as I appreciate that influence could be – but that’s a topic for another post).
Now, armed with my Claude-authored plan to ‘transition from NHS clinical Management to AI/digital health innovation’, I have already struck forth, updating my LinkedIn profile to present myself as a ‘healthcare communicator, leader, and tech innovator’. I’ve rebooted this blog, and I’ve been working my way through the recommended learning, having already completed:
- Open University/Click-Start: Getting started with generative artificial intelligence
- Google AI Essentials
- Google Prompting Essentials
- Agile Foundations
The real challenge is going to be the next part of my (Claude’s?) plan, which is ‘creating thought leadership content and building portfolio projects’, such as:
Concurrent Project 1: NHS 111 Call Analysis Tool
Build a GenAI tool that:
- Analyses mock NHS 111 call transcripts
- Identifies triage patterns
- Suggests resource allocation improvements
- Uses: Python + OpenAI API + Streamlit for interface
This leverages your domain expertise + demonstrates practical AI
By ‘concurrent’, Claude thinks I’m going to simultaneously be learning Python and Microsoft Azure, neither of which I can currently do. Quite the challenge I think, perhaps I should be flattered.
So let’s see how this goes – I think I’m about to learn what ‘vibe coding’ is.
And is Claude my boss now?
My pledge: No article written here will be planned, written, or edited by AI. This will always be a place for my thoughts, words and typos. Any AI-generated content will be labelled clearly as such.
[The image for this article was generated by Microsoft Copilot with the prompt: ‘Give me some ideas for a letterbox-aspect background image for my next blogpost entitled My Great AI Career Experiment’.]