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There are over 350 different NHS careers and everyone makes a difference every day.
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Anaesthesia
Clinical oncology
Clinical radiology
Community sexual and reproductive health
Emergency medicine
General practitioner
Intensive care medicine
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Occupational medicine
Ophthalmology
Opportunities in medicine
- Acute internal medicine
- Allergy
- Audiovestibular medicine
- Cardiologist
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and diabetes
- Gastroenterology
- General internal medicine
- Genitourinary medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases
- Medical oncology
- Medical ophthalmology
- Metabolic Medicine
- Neurologist
- Nuclear medicine
- Palliative medicine
- Pharmaceutical medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Renal medicine
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Stroke medicine
- Tropical medicine
Opportunities in surgery
- Cardiothoracic surgeon
- General surgery
- Neurosurgeon
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery)
- Paediatric surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Trauma and orthopaedic surgery
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
Opportunities in pathology
- Chemical pathology
- Haematology (doctor)
- Histopathology (doctor)
- Medical microbiology and virology (doctor)
Opportunities in psychiatry
- Child and adolescent psychiatry
- Forensic psychiatry
- General psychiatry
- Liaison psychiatry
- Medical psychotherapy
- Old age psychiatry
- Psychiatry of intellectual disability (PID)
Paediatrics
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Support services
- Audio visual technician
- Driver
- Fire safety officer
- Health and safety officer
- Porter
- Security staff
- Stores and distribution staff
Estates services
- Bricklayer
- Caretaker
- Carpenter/joiner
- Electrician
- Engineer
- Estates technician
- Gardeners and grounds staff
- Painter and decorator
- Plumber
- Surveyor
- Tiler
- Window cleaner
Domestic services
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Life sciences
- Analytical toxicology
- Anatomical pathology
- Biomedical science
- Cancer genomics
- Clinical biochemistry
- Clinical immunology
- Cytopathology
- Genomic counselling
- Genomics
- Haematology (healthcare scientist)
- Histocompatibility and immunogenetics
- Histopathology (healthcare scientist)
- Infection sciences
- Microbiology (healthcare scientist)
- Reproductive science and andrology
- Virology (healthcare scientist)
Physiological sciences
- Audiology
- Cardiac sciences
- Clinical exercise physiologist
- Clinical perfusion science
- Critical care science
- Gastrointestinal physiology
- Hearing aid dispenser
- Neurophysiology
- Ophthalmic and vision science
- Respiratory physiology and sleep sciences
- Urodynamic science
- Vascular science
Clinical bioinformatics
- Clinical bioinformatics (genomics)
- Clinical bioinformatics (health informatics)
- Clinical bioinformatics (physical sciences)
Physical sciences and biomedical engineering
- Clinical engineering
- Clinical measurement
- Clinical or medical technology in medical physics
- Clinical pharmaceutical science
- Clinical photography
- Decontamination science (sterile services and flexible endoscopy)
- Imaging (ionising)
- Imaging (non-ionising)
- Medical device risk management and governance
- Nuclear medicine (healthcare scientist)
- Radiation physics and radiation safety physics
- Radiotherapy physics
- Reconstructive science
- Rehabilitation engineering
- Renal technology
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Dietetic assistant
Healthcare assistant
Healthcare support worker
Mammography associate
Maternity support worker
Occupational therapy support worker
Orthoptic support worker
Orthotic technician
Physiotherapy assistants/support workers
Podiatry assistant
Prosthetic technician
Radiography assistants and imaging support workers
Speech and language therapy assistant
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Clinical manager
Estates manager
Finance manager
Human resources (HR) manager
Practice manager
Project manager
Operational management
- Administrative management
- Decontamination services management
- Facilities management
- Hotel services management
- Integrated urgent care/NHS 111 team leader
General management
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Adult psychotherapist
CBT therapist
Child and adolescent psychotherapist
Children's wellbeing practitioner
Clinical associate in psychology
Clinical psychologist
Counselling psychologist
Counsellor
Education mental health practitioner
Family and systemic psychotherapist
Forensic psychologist
Health psychologist
High intensity therapist
Mental health and wellbeing practitioner
Peer support worker
Psychological wellbeing practitioner
Youth intensive psychological practitioner
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Corporate services
- Arts manager/arts co-ordinator
- Chaplain
- Communications/public relations staff
- Finance staff
- Human resources staff
- Nursery nurse and nursery assistant
Clinical support staff
- Assistant practitioner
- Cardiographer
- Creative therapy support roles
- Dental support worker
- Donor carer
- Employment specialist
- Health play staff
- Healthcare science assistants and associates
- Integrated urgent care/NHS 111 roles
- Mammographer
- Medical support worker
- Newborn hearing screener
- Nutritionist
- Optometrist
- Orthopaedic practitioner
- Phlebotomist
- Social prescribing link worker
- Social worker
- Support, time and recovery worker
- Theatre support worker
Administration