In person · Redundancy workshop · Middlewich, Cheshire
Now what?
A one-day planning workshop for anyone who’s been made redundant, is at risk of it, or is weighing up voluntary redundancy. Any sector. You’ll leave with a written plan: what you have to offer, what your ideal working day looks like, how long your payout and savings last, and what to do in the first 90 days.
The meeting’s happened, or it’s coming. Now everyone wants to know what’s next.
Your CV hasn’t been touched in years. You’ve started applying for anything that looks close to what you do now, because doing something feels better than doing nothing.
The payout looks like a lot of money until you divide it by your monthly outgoings. Then it’s a countdown.
This day is for you if you’ve been made redundant, you’re in consultation, or you’re deciding whether to take voluntary redundancy. Healthcare, public sector, corporate, industry. You’re capable and you’ve got years of experience behind you. You just don’t have a plan yet.
By 4pm you will.
Four things, on paper, in your hand.
Values & Skills
A completed Skills Translation Matrix. What you actually have to offer outside the job you’re leaving, in language that makes sense to people who’ve never worked in your sector.
Imagine
A picture of your ideal working day, built by you, not borrowed from LinkedIn. The hours, the work, the people, the life around it.
Affordable
Your runway number. How long your payout and savings last, your minimum viable income, and what that buys you in time and options.
Your 90-Day Plan
Written by you, for you, plus the full workbook covering all seven Via Nova stages to take home.
VIA is the foundation of the Via Nova framework. The morning covers these three stages in depth, each with its own action. The afternoon takes you through the remaining four, Now What, Overcome, Validation and Action, so you leave knowing the whole route.
Someone asks what you’re doing next and you have an answer.
Your skills, written down in language a stranger would pay for.
A number you know. How long the money lasts and what it buys you.
The drive home spent planning the first week, not avoiding the question.
9.00 to 4.00. Finish bang on.
David Birchmore
More than twenty-five years in healthcare. I started as a radiographer, then moved through clinical systems, medical technology and international roles, working for some of the biggest healthcare companies in the world.
I’ve quit jobs and I’ve been made redundant. At 35 I was made redundant and left the same day. I’d never been without work and assumed my job was safe. I sat in my car in tears waiting to pick up the kids, then spent five weeks out of work.
After one particularly brutal contract I walked away with no safety net. It still took a few more years to work my last shift. That gap, between the decision and the move, is where most people live. It’s longer than it needs to be.
Since then I’ve built and grown several businesses, sold one, and now I help people, many of them from healthcare, build a realistic, structured plan for what comes next, without feeling like they’re being reckless.
Founder, Via Nova · Creator, Personal Exit Plan · Host, Get A Shift On
Their words, not mine.
David helped me reflect on my career and recognise my skill set, considering how I am, or am not, using it to my full potential.
KS · Director, former Radiographer
He helped me identify my skill set and made me realise these skills are not only transferable, but how valued they would be outside of a healthcare setting. It gave me the confidence to make positive changes.
TM · Nurse
His advice helped me recognise the value of my clinical experience, leadership skills and transferable strengths. It genuinely helped rebuild my confidence.
AM · Clinical Lead Nurse
I would highly recommend David and Via Nova to anyone seeking to refresh their career and explore new ways of applying their skills. Nothing is ever too much trouble.
DG · Digital Transformation, former Radiographer
A room worth sitting in, with parking you don’t pay for.
Canalside Conference Centre, Middlewich
The Willow Room. 34–36 Brooks Lane, Middlewich CW10 0JG. A working day deserves a room worth sitting in. Refreshments through the day and lunch made on site, all included.
Visit the venue ↗Getting there
Ten minutes from the M6 at junction 18, with plenty of parking on site and no charge for it. That puts Manchester, Stoke, Crewe, Warrington and Chester all inside an hour. Coming by train, Winsford and Sandbach are both a short taxi ride away. Taxi numbers come with your booking confirmation.
£99. Everything included.
A small room, so you get answers.
- Full day, 9.00 to 4.00
- Lunch and refreshments included
- The complete seven-stage workbook
- A small room, so you get answers
Reserve through the form and I’ll send your payment link. Your seat is held while you sort it.
Every penny of your workshop fee comes off any further work with me if you decide to keep going afterwards. No pressure either way. You leave with a plan regardless.
Asked and answered.
Do I need a business idea?
No. The day works whether your next move is a business, a portfolio career, or a different employed role. The plan comes first. The route follows.
Do I need to work in healthcare?
No. My background is healthcare and a lot of my work is with people leaving it, but the day works for anyone facing redundancy. Public sector, corporate, industry, all of it.
I haven’t been made redundant yet. I’m in consultation or thinking about voluntary redundancy. Can I come?
Yes, and the earlier the better. You’ll make far better decisions in consultation than you will in week six of job hunting.
Will I have to share my finances with the room?
No. The Affordable stage is worked on your own paper. Nobody sees your numbers but you.
Can my employer or redundancy package pay for this?
Often, yes. Many settlements include outplacement or retraining budgets that go unspent. I can invoice directly. Worth asking, it’s your money either way.
I’m an employer making redundancies. Can you run this for my team?
Yes. I run the same day on site for groups of up to ten, so your people leave with a plan and you know they’ve been looked after on the way out. Book a call and we’ll talk it through.
Is this a sales pitch for something bigger?
The day stands on its own and you leave with your plan. If you want to keep working with me afterwards, your workshop fee comes off it. That’s the whole pitch, and this is the only place you’ll hear it.
What should I bring?
A pen. Everything else, workbook, lunch, coffee, is provided.
Book your seat. Bring the question you’ve been avoiding.
Tuesday 17 November · Middlewich, Cheshire
Book your seat ↗Fill in the form and I’ll send your payment link. Lunch included, finish at 4.00 bang on.