Working in Health and Social Care

Do you want a role in which you can help, support, and make a difference to the quality of life for others?

Health and social care is a diverse sector covering a range of client groups including the elderly, children and people with additional support needs.

Come to our webinar to find out about the range of career options, how to get started, the training and qualification pathways possible and where to find job opportunities. The webinar will also cover the myths about health and social care, and tell you about the realities of working in a sector that can be incredibly rewarding, including ways to progress into higher level careers.

Are you someone with:

• the ability to get on with people from all sorts of backgrounds

• good speaking and listening skills with the ability to work well in a team

• a responsible, caring, trustworthy and dependable personality?

If so, then the health and social care sector is well worth exploring further, whatever background you have come from or experience gained from working or personal life.

Webinars are delivered via Microsoft Teams

For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Service adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment the careers adviser will help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action.

By giving us your personal information you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar

Customers' information is collected so that the Department for Education can carry out its functions, information will be handled in accordance with the principles and laws of data protection and at no time will it be used for purposes that are not related to the delivery of careers advice by the National Careers Service. For further details of how customer data is used, please view the privacy policy on the National Careers Service website; https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/help/privacy-and-cookies (or at bit.ly/NcsPrivacy2)

What else do I need to know?

There may be other participants in the session, so you must take care not to reveal any of your personal data at any time. Our recommendation is that you do not supply, verbally or on screen, your full name, email address, telephone number or any other information which could identify you to other participants on the call. You must not share such data, to safeguard your interests and so that you do not make yourself vulnerable to any malicious activity. Some presentations may be recorded for training purposes.

The link for this webinar will be sent to you afew days before the event.