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About care jobs
Care jobs are seldom mundane, often testing and tend to be extremely rewarding. If you are hard-working, passionate, good at communicating and believe you’d like to help others then care work can inspire and satisfy. They can also offer excellent career progression and opportunities.
The term care jobs is far too broad to be defined easily and briefly. Certainly ‘care jobs’ covers far too many job roles to explain thoroughly in one page. In fact, care jobs embrace everything from unqualified carer jobs, through qualified nurse jobs, to NVQ qualified support workers jobs and more.
So, where to start? It’s probably best that this article is considered as an introduction to more detailed outlines of more specific care job types found elsewhere on this site. To help anyone considering care jobs for the first time, it might be best to consider the following three questions. These will help you determine whether care jobs are for you, and which kind of care job will suit you best.
Where do you want to work - where would you like to see care job vacancies?
We don’t mean geographic location here (health care jobs are as likely anywhere in the UK, of course with a large preponderance in the cities - care jobs in London, for instance, are extremely numerous), but rather ‘what kind of institution do you want to work in?’ Let’s consider some of your care jobs options in this respect:
Residential care jobs - working in a care home built for the particular purpose. This may be a residential home for the elderly, or learning disabilities clients, or a specific mental health illness centre. See care homes jobs elsewhere for more information.
Nursing homes jobs - specifically requiring qualified nurses to be in attendance. Commonly for the elderly (elderly care jobs are extremely numerous), but not exclusively so of course.
Hospital jobs - NHS hospital jobs and independent or specialist hospital jobs. Working either as a qualified nurse, or support staff or healthcare assistant. Acute, clinical hospital jobs will offer general nursing care jobs and specialist nurse jobs of course. And they will span all the nurse jobs you may think of - surgical, operating theatre, A&E jobs, mental health, paediatrics, clinical, medical, ICU jobs, outpatient nursing jobs and so on.
Community care jobs - community care jobs can be defined by picturing those who go out to provide care for people in, obviously enough, the community. So, district nurses, some social worker jobs, many support workers jobs, certain care assistant jobs, domiciliary jobs...
Home Care jobs - you’ll start to hear a number of different terms, some of which mean similar things. Home Care (sometimes called outreach jobs) has become a popular term to mean working in the community (yes, community care jobs again). Home care jobs encompass support workers, NVQ qualified care staff, and sometimes degree-qualified care staff such as nurses or social workers.
Others... there are many more places of care. For instance, prisons, schools, offices, clinics, GP surgeries and nurseries. Where do you want to go?
You want Care Jobs UK... but who do you want to work with?
By that, we mean - what kind of group do you imagine will bring the best out in you? What kind of clients will you be able to care for best? For instance, children? Or adults? Or those with behavioural difficulties, learning difficulties, physical disabilities, the elderly, those suffering from terminal illness or end-of-life care jobs.... Choosing the care group will define your care worker jobs decision.
Child care jobs, if you enjoy working with children, would be an obvious choice. Less obvious are the range of jobs working with clients with complex mental health needs, or enduring mental illness such as huntington’s disease or any of the autistic spectrum disorders. This kind of care work may lead you to seek care vacancies for in home care jobs or jobs in care home, residential care jobs or community care jobs.
Would you like to take qualifications?
Many healthcare workers start off their career in care as a care assistant, carer or HCA (healthcare assistant) and choose to take qualifications in order to specialise. Many nurses, for instance, studied to gain their nursing degree or diploma while working as a carer.
If you wish to take qualifications then you ought to consider what you wish to qualify as, and what kind of care jobs will suit you best. For instance:
NVQ jobs - support workers jobs, home manager jobs.
Qualified nurses - mental health nurse jobs, learning disabilities nurse jobs, nurse practitioner jobs
Social work jobs - gain your degree in social work and work in a hospital or the community, for social services or a support organisation
So… you can see the options, and there are lots of them! A job in care can be so many different things. It can be a job working for a private organisation such as a specialised hospital. Or care work UK can mean carer jobs in the public sector, or as a nurse within NHS care jobs. Jobs in home care and support care jobs will see you working in the community. Mental health jobs take in jobs for qualified nurses, support workers, and then the rest of the team - psychiatrists jobs, consultants, psychologists.
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Whatever route you choose caring jobs will present you with positive challenges and a chance to learn. Many people working in care say they feel like they’re giving something back to the community and can’t imagine doing anything else. Some say it simply doesn’t feel like a job. And, as you’ll read elsewhere on this site the opportunity to diversify and specialise is a key benefit, and a recurring theme, to all of those who choose jobs in care.
