When it comes to your job, are you fulfilled? If you aren’t, a career helping others is sure to increase your fulfillment. Positions within the health and social care industry allow you to make a genuine difference in the lives of others. This is because you are helping them when they’re at their weakest and often lowest points. If you’re a compassionate person and want a fulfilling job that gives you purpose, here are some ideas to consider.
Medical
Working in the medical field allows you the chance to help people heal from illness and injury. Doctors and nurses are obvious choices, but there are a lot of careers in the field. Some examples are paramedics, air ambulance crew, physiotherapists, midwives, and so much more. The higher level careers take years of training. However, it’s not impossible to make the switch or to get started. To get started, you need to be focused, prepared to study hard, and start from the bottom.
Mental Health Services
It’s not just our physical health that matters, but mental health too. And mental health services are an important element of healthcare. The higher regarded positions in the field like psychologists and psychiatrists take many years to study for and are good places to aim for.
Mental health nursing is also an excellent choice, it’s a well-paid job which you can work your way up in but only requires a three-year bachelor’s degree so ideal if you don’t want to study further afterward. Another great mental health area to go into is counseling. This positions require less schooling than a psychiatrist but offer direct interaction with helping people.
Care Work
Care work is often revolving around elderly people or those with disabilities. You could be working in a nursing home, group home, or one on one with a client in their own home. Many care jobs don’t require formal qualifications to get started, so you could get started right out of high school and work your way up. You will take courses as part of training and gain skills, qualifications, and experience as you go—which is useful if you need to work and earn money quickly.
Social and Community Care Work
There are lots of roles within the community which can help others with their lives and health. Housing and homeless officers, social workers, postnatal health workers, and community nurses amongst many others fall into this category.
If you don’t want a regular office job and prefer to be out and about, working in the community, this could be a fantastic option. It ensures people are integrating well with society and have access to the help that they need. In the case of community nurses, it helps people who would struggle to get to a doctor or hospital on a regular basis.
A job within the health industry genuinely benefits the lives of others. You could be the difference between someone living or dying, someone giving up hope and going on to live a happy life. You might not be able to change the world, but you can change the world for some people in this kind of career, what can I say, it’s fulfilling.
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