What Work Leicestershire
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
If you ’ re looking for a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress , then health and social care is for you . It ’ s all about providing personal and practical care and support to help people live their lives . With over 350 job roles , you could work with someone with a physical disability , a mental health condition , a learning disability or someone who ’ s overcoming challenges in their life , for example through illness . This could be in their own home , the community , a hospital , a care home or from an office . There are also other roles in health based in specialist consultancy or labs but there are also support roles in admin , security and maintenance which are essential to the day-to-day running of the service .
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What is happening ?
• The sector ’ s growing as people are living longer and have more complex needs : 53,300 are employed in this sector locally .
• Health and social care services are working more closely .
• Some recruitment is based on values and behaviours rather than experience and qualifications – showing you ’ re the right type of person for the job .
• Digital technologies and apps are having a huge impact including patient monitoring , diagnostics , robotics and bioscience . These are creating new job areas , for example in telecare , where remote monitoring and support can be given to people in their own homes .
• A growing range of apprenticeships , including new integrated apprenticeships where you can get experience of working in both health and social care .
• Skills shortages include midwives , A & E doctors , GPs , care and social workers , psychiatrists , occupational therapists , orthoptists , bioscientists and radiographers .
• The adult social care workforce must grow by 80 % by 2025 , and domiciliary care is expanding .
• Leicestershire is home to the Charnwood Campus – the UK ’ s first Life Sciences Opportunity Zone – which will develop industry , research institutes and government organisations in Life Sciences . http :// charnwoodcampus . com
On the web
www . nmc . org . uk www . stepintothenhs . nhs . uk www . nhscareers . nhs . uk www . skillsforcare . org . uk / thinkcarecareers
Skills & qualities
What could you earn ? *
Pharmacist Paramedic Dental nurse Social worker Care home assistant Residential home manager
Useful subjects
Local employers include
• City , county and district councils
• NHS hospitals and health centres e . g . Spire Leicester hospital
• Local care and care home organisations
£ 26K- £ 83K £ 22K- £ 35K £ 17K- £ 28K £ 24K- £ 40K £ 14K- £ 25K £ 20K- £ 50K
• Private health care e . g . Nuffield Health Leicester
• Domiciliary care agencies
• Community service agencies