Contrary to what it might seem, allied health jobs comprise the majority of vacancies within the health system. These are the occupations that are not immediately noticeable on your trips to the GP or hospital, but such positions lie behind and support the more visible professionals (such as doctors and nurses) that make up the health service. Therefore, if you are looking for work in the NHS or health sector more generally, there is a vast range of careers that you might be discounting – jobs in occupational therapy and jobs in radiography, for example. These can follow a very different training path to ‘traditional’ medicine or nursing, and so can remain an option for those who wish to retrain or move sideways into other areas of work.
This category of jobs accounts for something like 60 percent of all the positions in the health services – a surprising number on the surface of it, but more understandable when you realise that these are simply the behind-the-scenes people that support all the work that the most visible staff carry out. These are the technicians who process blood tests, work the x-ray machines, offer various kinds of counselling and physical therapies – all the work, in short, that requires specialist training of one kind or another, and that the doctors and nurses who do most of the face-to-face work and time on the wards may not be qualified to do. Because allied health is a related but different area to regular medicine, it often has a different entry path. There are jobs agencies that deal specifically with allied health jobs, and can help you find all the vacancies in your local area or country-wide that might be suitable for your circumstances, training and experience. These vacancies would not usually be advertised in a job centre or possibly other normal jobs agencies, because they are specialist.
If you are looking for jobs in radiography, jobs in occupational therapy, various kinds of physical and speech therapy, diet or any other allied health jobs, then you would do well to visit an agency which will recognise and deal with your needs, and that is consequently more likely to offer you the kinds of vacancies you want. These work both ways – for people looking for work, and for health services looking for employees. They are used to providing staff at short notice, and to matching job-seekers with suitable vacancies.
Please visit http://www.abouthealthprofessionals.co.uk/ for further information about this topic.
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