A Healthy Approach to Your Career

A great job should make you feel alive, energetic, stimulated and most of all excited about going to work. Yes, we all have our down days when the thought of getting out of bed seems like an insurmountable challenge but generally speaking we all strive for a career that makes us happy.  As the saying goes, if you enjoy your job, you never have to work another day in your life.

So we recently asked our customers what makes their job in healthcare so great and what makes them happy. Here are the top five reasons why people working in healthcare are so happy with their career: 

1. Knowing you're making a difference in a sick person's life
2. Colleagues who value your input 
3. A team environment - knowing that someone's got your back
4. Diversity of role - meeting new people everyday and no two days being the same
5. The intellectual stimulation from a constantly evolving environment

Not bad, hey?    If you think a career in healthcare sounds interesting, we've got hundreds of great roles waiting for your application.  So find a new career, start enjoying your job and never work again!

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Midwifery. A Career is Born

A career in Midwifery is the ultimate opportunity for a person looking to help bring new life into the world.

Preparing women mentally and physically for the delivery of a new baby, means that Midwifes play a critical role during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period.  Midwifes can be hospital based or work directly in the community at women's homes or local clinics as they provide advice, care and support for women, helping them make their own decisions about the care and services they access. They care for newborn children, providing health education and parenting support for the first 28 days, after which care transfers to a health visitor.

Many midwifes choose to specialise in a particular area of perinatal care and undertake research in the process.  For more specialised roles in Midwifery, click here:

Generally speaking, the midwife's job role includes (but is not limited to):

• diagnosing, monitoring and examining pregnant women 
• developing, assessing and evaluating individual care 
• providing full antenatal care, including screening tests
• identifying high risk pregnancies and making referrals 
• arranging and providing parenting and health education for the woman
• encouraging participation of family members in the birth to support the mother
• providing counselling and advice before and after screening
• offering support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death
• supervising and assisting mothers in labour, monitoring the condition of the foetus and using knowledge of drugs and pain management;
• giving support and advice on baby care e.g breast feeding, bathing and making up feeds

If you think a career in Midwifery is right for you, check out the range of jobs available at NHSJobs.

Bending over Backwards for a Job in Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy helps restore movement and function when a patient is impacted by injury, illness or by another disability.  This could involve neuromuscular (brain and nervous system), musculoskeletal (soft tissues, joints and bones), cardiovascular and respiratory systems (heart and lungs and associated physiology).

A career in Physiotherapy offers a variety of exciting and rewarding employment opportunities. With the right qualifications and clinical expertise, options exit to become: 

• physiotherapist to a national sporting team
• physiotherapy lecturer in a university
• researcher for a patient charity dealing with muscular issues
• consultant physiotherapist in musculoskeletal services
• owning or working within a private practice or NHS

To find the many exciting jobs in physiotherapy available in the UK, search www.NHSjobs.co

Occupational Therapy....setting kids on a new trajectory

Occupational therapy can help children improve behaviour and coordination by focusing on their cognitive, physical, and motor skills. Active intervention by OT experts can help children operate more effectively at school by increasing their concentration and self-esteem.

OT's will intervene with playing and learning and daily activities to ensure the child is achieving the relevant benchmarks for their age group. They work with students who have disabilities to achieve success in the classroom and other learning environments.  Specifically, therapists help students develop fine motor skills, visual motor skills, sensory regulation and physical access.  This could include assistance with awkward pencil grasp, poor core stability and coordination, delayed hand-writing, inability to pay attention in class, right through to autistic spectrum disorder and ADHD.

Working with children can be hugely rewarding and experts in this field are increasingly sort after.  To find great jobs in Occupational Therapy search for opportunities on NHSJobs.

Nuclear Technology: An Atomic Job in Healthcare....

Nuclear technicians work in the field of nuclear energy...the splitting of atoms through a process called nuclear fission. Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of energy and/or high-energy particles from the nuclei of atoms when they are split.

There are many kinds of roles for nuclear technicians. In the field of healthcare, radionuclides—unstable atoms that emit radiation spontaneously—are used to diagnose and treat disease. Radionuclides are purified and compounded to form radiopharmaceuticals. Nuclear medicine technologists administer radiopharmaceuticals to patients and then monitor the characteristics and functions of tissues or organs in which the drugs localise. Nuclear medicine differs from other diagnostic imaging technologies because it determines the presence of disease on the basis of metabolic changes, rather than changes in organ structure.

Nuclear medicine technologists operate cameras that detect and map the radioactive drug in a patient's body to create diagnostic images. A “scanner,” which creates images of the distribution of a radiopharmaceutical as it localises in and emits signals from the patient's body. The physician can then interpret the images.

NHSJobs adds hundreds of new jobs everyday including exciting roles in nuclear technology.  Join our mailing list to get up-to-date job alerts for nuclear technicians.

Biomedical Science: A Job Less Ordinary

A career in Biomedical Science is an exciting and cutting edge career path. Biomedical scientists work in healthcare to diagnose disease and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment through the analysis of fluids and tissue samples from patients.

They provide the hub of modern medicine with 70% of diagnoses based on the pathology results provided by laboratory services. With biomedical scientists handling an estimated 150 million samples in the UK, every person at some point in their lives will have benefited from their services.

Whether you are looking to further your biomedical science career within the NHS or considering broadening your experience into the commercial sector, your next biomedical science job can be found here at NHSJobs

Caring for your Career

There's been a lot of information in the press of late about support for carers in our society.  It is estimated there are 6M carers in the UK - that's a tenth of the population.  Whilst many of these roles are paid positions, the majority are not.  The unsung heroes of our community.

A carer could be someone looking after an elderly person, supporting a partner with a disability or helping  a friend or neighbour.  Roles can include therapy assistants and hospital support.  The opportunities are varied and many but are united by one key attribute - compassion. These people help keep our society humming.

If you think you've got what it takes to develop a career in the carer profession - compassion, empathy, energy and a great sense of humour, check out the hundreds of wonderfully fulfilling roles we have available on NHSJobs

Search here: www.nhsjobs.co/carers