Social Care Careers Guide
With caring careers, you can give back to the people who need it most.
About Social Care Careers
Care in the community exists to help those who are most vulnerable. The elderly, people struggling with physical or mental health, disadvantaged young people and those affected by great poverty… all these people need extra help and support.
Did You Know?
They say a community is only as healthy and successful as the people in it who are suffering the most. When you work in social care, you help to give those people the support they need. Giving back to the community in this way is one of the most important jobs there is, and it can be very rewarding too.
Social Care Career Guides
Get into social care careers and hospitality roles with advice for all the routes you can take after school, college, university, and training. Get work experience and first job tips, example salaries and discover youth-friendly employers who want to help you get ahead!
Get Into Social Care Careers With Youth-Friendly Employers
These employers and organisations are here to help. They care about your potential and desire to learn, not just your qualifications and experience. They may be able to offer traineeships, apprenticeships, graduate schemes, first jobs, careers advice, wellbeing support and much more.
How Much Can You Earn With Social Care Careers?
These LMI Job Trends give you a sneak peek of how much you could earn starting out for certain jobs, and how much your salary could grow with experience.
List of Social Care Careers
Here's a full list of roles and areas you could work in, so you can see how much variety there is in this sector!
- Accommodation warden
- Administrative assistant
- Aid worker
- Art therapist
- British Sign Language interpreter
- Care escort
- Care home advocate
- Care home manager
- Care worker
- Careers adviser
- Child protection officer
- Childminder
- Clinical psychologist
- Cognitive behavioural therapist
- Communication support worker
- Community development worker
- Community transport driver
- Counsellor
- Dramatherapist
- Drug and alcohol worker
- Education welfare officer
- Equalities officer
- Family mediator
- Family support worker
- Forensic psychologist
- Foster carer
- Funeral director
- Health trainer
- Horticultural therapist
- Housing officer
- Learning disability nurse
- Learning mentor
- Life coach
- Money adviser
- Music therapist
- Nanny
- Nursery manager
- Nursery worker
- Occupational therapist
- Occupational therapy support worker
- Palliative care assistant
- Patient advice and liaison service officer
- Play therapist
- Playworker
- Primary care graduate mental health worker
- Probation officer
- Psychologist
- Psychotherapist
- Religious leader
- Residential support worker
- School crossing patrol
- School matron
- Senior care worker
- Sexual health adviser
- Social services manager
- Social work assistant
- Social worker
- Substance misuse outreach worker
- Victim care officer
- Youth offending team officer
- Youth worker
