Contrary to what it might look like, allied health jobs comprise the majority of positions within the health services. These are the occupations that are not immediately visible on your trips to the surgery or hospital, but such positions lie behind and support the obvious professionals (such as doctors and nurses) that make up the health service. So, if you are looking for work in the NHS or health sector more widely, there is a vast range of careers that you might be overlooking – jobs in occupational therapy and jobs in radiography, for example. These can proceed along a very different training path to ‘traditional’ medicine or nursing, and so can continue to be an option for those who wish to retrain or move sideways into other kinds of work.
This category of jobs accounts for something like 60 percent of all the vacancies in the health services – a surprising number on the surface of it, but more understandable when you realise that these are merely the behind-the-scenes folk that support all the work that the most visible staff carry out. These are the technicians who process blood tests, use the x-ray machines, offer different kinds of counselling and physical therapies – all the work, in short, that uses 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 ready to do. Because allied health is a related but different area to regular medicine, it often has a different entry route. There are jobs agencies that deal specifically with allied health jobs, and can help you find all the vacancies in your local area or UK-wide that might be good for your circumstances, training and experience. These jobs 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 check 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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