Many people from all walks of life have had experience of care without realising it. Caring for a relative, friend or comrade can be particularly rewarding and makes it considerably easier to forge a new career in the healthcare industry.

 

Jark Healthcare, a specialist, national and privately owned recruitment business, has the ability to provide retraining to exArmed Forces personnel, and runs a dedicated and fully functioning training department that is geared towards training and retraining applicants with a view to working on a full/ parttime, temporary/permanent basis. With offices across the country, we are confident that we have the ability to not only retrain you, but also to provide you with consistent work moving forwards.

 

For more information call 01223 227999 or visit www.jark.co.uk.

 

 

 

 

Here’s an interesting and unusual line of work that may be new to you. Last year, interviewers and nurses working for the National Centre for Social Research visited over 300,000 homes in the UK. The interviewers completed survey questionnaires with people in their own homes, and on our health surveys the nurses followed up with medical measures (including taking blood samples and blood pressure).

 

For 40 years we have been carrying out major public surveys for government departments and charities. The results are used for all sorts of different purposes, such as evaluating policy and monitoring people’s opinions, health, education and finances.

 

Our interviewers enjoy the challenge and satisfaction of using their people skills to persuade members of the public to take part.

Our nurses say that one reason they like the work is because they are not only dealing with people who are unwell! It’s worthwhile work because you are gathering information that is vital to understanding modern Britain, and the surveys give people a chance to be represented and have their voices heard. It’s a role for people who enjoy being out and about on the road, meeting a wide range of individuals and families. No two days are the same.

 

We provide all the training you’ll need on the various survey questionnaires and measurements. There are no fixed hours but there is evening and weekend work, since this is when the public are often at home. Interviewers and nurses work for us on a freelance basis, so you can accept and turn down assignments of work during the year. In 2010 we will have assignments in cities, towns and villages throughout England, Scotland and Wales. If you like the sound of this, why not give us a call?

 

For more information, contact Tel: 01277 690038, email: fieldrecruitment@natcen.ac.uk, or visit website at www.natcen.ac.uk

 

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Health Minister Ann Keen (herself a former nurse) has announced that all nurses will need to be educated to degree level by 2013. The move aims to improve both patient care and perceptions of nurses’ professional role. However, there are fears that it may deter people from pursuing a nursing career, put off by the idea of an extended – and expensive – period of study.

Nursing candidates will require a degree in nursing, or equivalent international qualification, and the courses (lasting up to four years) will meet standards developed by professional regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Currently, the minimum requirement for entry into the profession is a diploma: a two- or three-year nursing course.

Keen told The Times, ‘By bringing in degree-level registration we can ensure new nurses have the best possible start to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This is the right direction of travel if we are to fulfil our ambition to provide higher-quality care for all.’ A formal three-month consultation period will begin in January, and universities are expected to begin offering nursing degree courses from as early as September 2011.