Entry Level Computer Job Question?

Hi – I work for NHS Careers. I'm sorry that your response from our helpline didn't answer your question. NHS Careers is a careers information service, and although it isn't resourced to provide careers guidance, I hope that the following will be of help to you.

If you're looking for some sort of unqualified role in the NHS, in which you'd be providing patient care or having direct contact with patients, then you could consider roles such as healthcare assistant, nursing assistant, therapy support worker, therapy assistant or porter, for instance. In these roles, you'd be working alongside qualified healthcare professionals, including doctors, therapists and nurses, and it would give you a great insight into how healthcare is delivered in the NHS. It would also help strengthen a university application.

The NHS has a pay system called ‘Agenda for Change’ which has 9 pay ‘bands’. These support roles would be between bands 1 and 4 on the system. All NHS organisations in England (‘trusts’ and ‘health authorities’) advertise their vacancies on the NHS Jobs website www.jobs.nhs.uk If you're looking for a job in the NHS, you could use the ‘quick search’ box on the home page and try typing in the job titles above.

However, if you take the ‘advanced search’ link from the home page of the site and then navigate to the ‘search by skills’ field, you can try keywords and phrases, such as ‘support work’, ‘patient care’, ‘therapy support’, ‘assistant’ etc. This may help you find job vacancies that you hadn't heard of before. If you get a lot of ‘results’, you can further filter these (use the ‘refine my search’ link - so you might filter by pay or geographical area (see the fields on the advanced search page). You then need to look at the person specification for each vacancy (it's usually a Word document, which you can download from the vacancy details).

This will tell you exactly what skills, qualifications and attributes you'll need and help you decide whether you want to then apply, which you can do online through the NHS Jobs website. It's also worth registering to receive free email alerts from the site - this means you'll get to hear about vacancies as soon as they are placed, rather than having to remember visit the site to check on a regular basis. On the main NHS Careers website at: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/medical.sht... you'll find lots of information about working and training as a doctor.

You can also download our ‘Careers in medicine’ booklet from: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/downloads.s... It is well worth contacting the medical schools/universities that run the degrees in medicine, to see what sort of advice they give about the relevant experience and skills they seek from applicants. You can use the course finder tool on the main NHS Careers website: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/cou... to get a list of medical schools in the UK. Finally, there's also some really useful information in the publication, ‘Becoming a doctor’, which you can download from the British Medical Association's website at: http://www.bma.org.uk/images/becomingadoctor2011_tcm41-198047.pdf I hope this helps and apologies once again.

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