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Is a health career right for you?

Did you know there are more than 350 different roles in health? You can work in the NHS, a charity or a partnership between the NHS and a local authority department, such as social care or children’s services, and there's a wide range of roles in private healthcare too.

Whatever your background, previous work experience or qualifications there will be a full-time or part-time healthcare role for you.

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You will undoubtedly have transferable skills and experiences.

Here are just some of the reasons you may wish to move into healthcare:

  • perhaps you are interested in working directly with patients or helping to support those staff that do
  • perhaps you have knowledge you could bring to working in healthcare science; in a laboratory testing role, at the cutting edge of medical research or using and maintaining state of the art equipment
  • you could work in a range of settings including hospitals, clinics or in the community alongside social care workers
  • you may wish to use previous experience and qualifications in areas such as administration, accountancy or management
  • or perhaps you would like to use your practical skills, such as catering, gardening or plumbing in a different workplace

Follow the links below to help inform your thinking about a career in health.

  • exploring your options [1]
  • identifying your transferable skills [2]
  • using your caring skills [3]
  • answer questions and find the health career for you [4]

Source URL: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/health-career-right-you

Links
[1] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/health-career-right-you/exploring-your-options
[2] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/health-career-right-you/identifying-transferable-skills
[3] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/health-career-right-you/using-your-caring-skills
[4] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/FindYourCareer