Industry Focus: Health & Social Care in Hertfordshire

Health and social care is about providing physical and emotional support to help people live their lives. For various reasons, at different stages in each person’s life they may need help and support.

Health and social care could be for you if you are passionate about helping people with their health and wellbeing and want to make a difference by improving the lives of others in the community.

Across Hertfordshire there are;

• Over 700 private, voluntary and independent care providers
• 3 hospital trusts
• 2 community providers delivering services such as school nursing, health visiting and community nursing
• 1 mental health and learning disability provider
• 1 County Council delivering a number of adult and child social care services
• 1 Integrated Urgent Care (NHS 111) organisation
• 1 Ambulance provider

There are 64,000 EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE INDUSTRY IN HERTFORDSHIRE!

DON’T FORGET The industry needs a wide range of non-health and social care roles such as FINANCE, BUSINESS ADMIN, HR and LEGAL.

Some of the most needed Health and Care roles in Hertfordshire:

• HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT
• CARE HOME MANAGER
• NURSE
• SOCIAL WORKER
• PHYSIOTHERAPIST
• OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
• SEXUAL HEALTH CLINICIAN
• DOCTOR
• MIDWIFE
• CHILD AND FAMILY SOCIAL WORKER
• OPTOMETRIST

If you are interested in finding out more;

If you are interested in finding out more about the range of jobs available in this sector, you can look at the following web links:

• https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate
• https://academy.healthierfuture.org.uk/
• https://www.hcpa.info/herts-good-care/
• https://www.hct.nhs.uk/work-with-us

Also, make sure to visit our YouTube channel to access the recent Health & Social Care careers in Hertfordshire webinar recording: https://youtu.be/qgnFwsJcYI0