Employability & Careers

If you are passionate about helping people and it is important to you that you make an impact every single day, then you are on the right course for success. Taking this course in health and social care allows you to nurture your desire to help others, and at the same time, take the vital steps to earning a living.

The qualification also supports entry into roles such as youth work, community support, and broader health‑related services.

This qualification supports progression into: University, employment and Students apprenticeships

Potential Careers

Employment opportunities can be grouped into:

• allied health (e.g. physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy)

• ambulance services

• complementary therapies

• dentistry

• health informatics

• health promotion

• healthcare administration and management

• healthcare science (e.g. clinical engineering, biomedical science, pathology)

• medical equipment sales

• medicine (e.g. doctors, surgeons, GPs)

• medical research

• midwifery

• nursing

• nutrition and diet

• optometry and opticians

• pharmacy

• psychological therapies