Section 1: Is a care role for me?

What’s important to you?

Do you want a job that makes a positive difference to other people’s lives?
YES NO
Do you want a job where you’re working with lots of different people?
YES NO
Have you seen the importance of care roles through personal experience or family and friends who work in care?
YES NO
Do you like motivating and stimulating others?
YES NO
Do you want to get into the type of work where there will always be jobs?
YES NO
Do you want to work in a role where you can do training and qualifications to help you progress?
YES NO
Do you like doing different things every day and working in a challenging environment?
YES NO

Your answers were mainly yes! We would recommend you consider a career in care.

Your answers were mainly no / not sure. We would only recommend you consider a career in care if you can answer yes to a majority of these questions.

Section 1
What sort of person are you?
Section 1
What’s important to you?
What sort of person are you?
Still not sure? Find out more.
Section 2
Jobs where you can learn and gain qualifications on the job
Apprenticeships available
Apprenticeships in development (2022)
Jobs requiring degrees
Voluntary work / work experience
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Section 3
Personal care and roles dealing with bodily fluids
Direct work with people roles that don’t involve personal care
Technical and ancillary roles
Still not sure? Find out more.
Section 4
Roles working in someone’s home
Roles based in the local community
Roles in large organisations
Roles in small or medium organisations
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Section 5
Jobs that are usually full time 9-5
Jobs that usually involve regular shift work
Jobs that are often part time and with flexible hours
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Section 6
Health Roles
Social care roles
Roles that can be in either health or care settings
Links to role descriptions and details
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Section 7
Moving into management / progress quickly
Frontline roles / advanced practitioners
Next steps
Section 8