The NHS offers a huge range of exciting and challenging opportunities for people who are passionate about making a difference. With over 1.3 million employees and more than 350 different careers on offer, there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills or qualifications.
Many jobs in the NHS don’t require a university qualification and many provide on the job training, as well as opportunities for further learning.
Map your career
Step into the NHS can help guide you through these career opportunities. You may want to try our personality quiz to find out what jobs might suit you in the NHS: Map your career.
There are also real-life NHS staff talking about their jobs and many didn’t take the traditional university route into employment.
By registering with Step into the NHS, you’ll receive a welcome pack through the post and exclusive access to our ‘Ask the Expert’ section and real-life work experience stories. You’ll also receive regular emails on what working for the NHS is really like.
NHS apprenticeships
Apprenticeships also provide routes into a variety of careers in the NHS, and offer the opportunity to earn, learn and achieve nationally recognised qualifications at the same time.
Check out more info on NHS Apprenticeships
Across the NHS, individual trusts are responsible for their own recruitment. The majority of employers advertise their job vacancies on NHS Jobs, the online recruitment service for jobs in the NHS. NHS Jobs brings them all into one place, making it easy to find and apply for a huge range of jobs in the NHS.
What roles can I do within the NHS?
There are all sorts of different jobs, apprenticeships & training programmes within the NHS including…
- Anatomical pathology technologist
- Chef
- Clinical audit assistant
- Clinical coder
- Clinical technologist
- Electrician
- Emergency medical dispatcher
- Emergency services call handler
- Gardener
- Hospital play specialist
- Housekeeper
- IT help desk advisor
- Maternity support worker
- Medical laboratory assistant
- Medical records clerk
- Medical secretary
- Occupational therapy assistant
- Paramedic
- Personal assistant
- Phlebotomist
- Porter
- Sterile services technician
The National Health Service offers a huge range of exciting and challenging opportunities for people who are passionate about making a difference. With over 1.3 million employees and more than 350 different careers on offer, there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills or qualifications.
