Being a healthcare worker comes with many different challenges but helping people is the overall importance, together with working hard and changing lives day and night. There are so many different routes one can take within the healthcare sector to become a Doctor, Nurse, Midwife, Care Assistant and so on. All of these roles play an important part in everyday life.

Working within healthcare

• You will grow and develop your listening and caring skills:

It is very important to understand the patient’s perspective. All of us have once been patients before coming into the healthcare profession. Each healthcare professional should be empathic, make us feel comfortable and develop a trusting relationship with us. Knowing how it feels to be a patient is what forces us to understand the patient’s perspective and therefore ensure we treat patients with care and deliver a very good service.

• You will make a strong effect on people’s lives every day:

Undeniably the most amazing part about working in healthcare is helping all the people that walk into your place of work, as well as making a great impact on their lives. No matter what role you play in the health and social care sector you will accomplish a lot, such as helping any individual that comes into your care, as well as learning something new almost every day.

• You will improve both personally and professionally:

Everyday there is something new to learn. There are so many situations that healthcare workers can find themselves in and therefore must be prepared to deal with all of these circumstances to their best ability.  As a healthcare worker you must understand how to deal with high pressure situations and know the practise of how to keep calm in a crisis.  You will find that you will develop very swiftly in your professional career and if employed by the NHS, staff will be provided with excellent training and support. With the broadness of the job, there will always be more to learn, new equipment to use, new procedures and new surroundings. Therefore, making you a more specialised person within the sector.

• No day is ever the same as the one before:Every day is a new challenge and a new situation. One day at work could be easy and another day could be the hardest challenge you have ever come across. You will encounter new people, different cultures, different scenarios, and new learning curves. You will get a chance to work with people from all walks of life, and there will never be a boring day in when working in healthcare.

• You will never not be able to find a job:

As this sector is so broad, there are so many different jobs you can go for. There will always be jobs within healthcare whether you find part time positions, full time or through an agency. If you have the required skills, then you will have a job waiting for you to fill. Luckily, healthcare is needed everywhere, not just the country you live in but also abroad. There are opportunities everywhere.

• Wide-ranging staff benefits:

Healthcare is one of the most flexible and accommodating sectors for its staff. For example, employees working for the NHS can frequently enjoy benefits such as flexible working, a trade union, sick-pay, child-care schemes, a bike scheme, affordable living schemes and a car servicing scheme. Allowing them to be looked after as well as them looking after everyone else.

• You will meet like-minded people:

 Within the healthcare sector, you will find people like yourself working hard to care for others. You will meet people that will be able to help you to develop within your speciality, making you become better at your job and also enabling one another to work harder.

Overall

Overall, as a health and social care worker you have the ability to make a difference in the world. You make a big difference in the world just simply because you are working to assist others. A simple interaction can make all the difference in the world. You could help bring a new life into the world or save a life from ending; you have the ability to change lives and help the world. Kudos to all the healthcare workers around the world!