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This sector provides a range of health and social care services to meet the needs of all people in society. There is a broad range of opportunities within childcare, nursing and caring for the elderly and disabled.
If you feel that you would like to make a difference to someone’s life then you may want to think about a career in Health & Social Care. You will need to like working with people and have good communication and interpersonal skills.
The UK health sector employs around 2 million people who work in a range of different organisations.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the biggest single employer in England with a workforce of 1.3 million and around 300 different career options.
Between 875,000 and 1.25 million people work in the social care sector; social care can mean working with adults or children.
61% of social workers are over 40 and 80% of them are female.
The Health & Social Care sector is growing because people are living longer and require a growing range of health and social care services to support them.
Jobs such as Care Assistant and Home Carers are 2 of the fastest growing occupations in this sector.
The number of jobs in social care are expected to increase every year until at least 2012.
It is expected that the National Health Service will need to recruit over 100,000 additional staff by 2008 to cope with the growing need for health care.
Within Social Care there are shortages of:
Within Health there are national shortages of:
Many people working in this sector now will be retiring in the next few years, so there will be a need to recruit young people.
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