What Work Hertfordshire 2015 / 2016
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
A job in the health and social care sector can be extremely rewarding. Many roles focus on care,
others are based in labs but there are also support roles in admin, security and maintenance
which are essential to the day-to-day running of the service. New technologies will have a huge
impact on healthcare including patient monitoring, diagnostics, robotics and bioscience.
What is happening?
Skills & qualities
• Health and social care is a large employment sector
in Hertfordshire and the largest in the UK. It employs
around 51,500 people in the county1.
• The number of people working in private health rather
than the NHS is growing.
• The future? New technologies will have a huge impact
on healthcare including patient monitoring, diagnostics,
robotics and bioscience. These are creating new job areas,
for example in telehealth.
Useful subjects
• More work in and around the community.
• Skill shortages in many areas including midwives, care
assistants, social workers, orthoptists and radiographers
• Demand for people with Level 3 qualifications and above.
• An ageing population means a shortage of people to help
care for older people.
What could you earn?*
• Adult social care workforce must grow by 80% by 2025 .
Pharmacist
£41,500
• Large life sciences cluster in Herts especially
pharmaceuticals – over 200 companies creating a growing
number of new jobs.
Midwife
£35,700
Dental nurse
£17,500
Social worker
£32,300
• 1,300 new jobs could be created at the Watford
Health Campus (currently under construction).
Care home assistant
£15,800
Residential home manager
£30,500
Local employers
Doctor
£71,100
Medical secretary
£21,400
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• NHS including hospitals & health centres
• Hertfordshire County Council & borough councils
• CareTech
• Glaxo Smithkline
• Sigma
Pharmaceuticals
• Roche
• MSD
• Merck, Sharpe & Dohme • Heptares
• National Stem Cell Bank • Various care homes
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On the web
www.nmas.ac.uk
www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk
www.skillsforcare.org.uk
www.skillsforcareanddevelopment.org.uk
1 Business Register and Employment Survey 2 Skills for Care * Annua