I want to help and support people in my job
Do you want a job where you are making a difference to people's lives by providing an important service?
There are many jobs that support and help others - what kind of role appeals to you?
- Protecting the public - responding to emergencies, preventing harm, or rescuing people from dangerous situations.
- Providing healthcare - offering medical advice, treatment or support.
- Caring for others - providing physical and emotional care to those in need.
- Supporting young people - helping children and teenagers to learn, grow and thrive.
- Providing specialist support - advising and assisting children, young people and families.
- Upholding justice - providing legal advice and services to protect rights and prosecute crime.
- Developing policy - represent people's views, creating policies and influencing laws to help improve people's lives.
Selection of jobs using the value of I want to help and support people in my job
- Ambulance care assistant
- Care worker
- Children's nurse
- Counsellor
- Early years teacher
- Family support worker
- Firefighter
- Health play specialist
- Healthcare assistant
- Mental health nurse
- Nanny
- Nursing associate
- Paramedic
- Pharmacist
- Police officer
- Probation officer
- Psychotherapist
- Social worker
- Solicitor
- Special educational needs (SEN) teacher
- Teaching assistant
- Youth worker
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Check out more than 800 other job profiles. The above list is just a selection of jobs where providing a service will be greatly valued, there will be loads more!
These job sectors might be good places to start (there are other job sectors too) if you want to provide a service in your working life, click through to the job profiles to find out the details.
What can you do to build the skills and experience needed to get into one of these careers?
There are a number of different activities and schemes you could consider to help build the skills you need for many of these job roles.
Do the Duke of Edinburgh Award
This is a well recognised award and provides lots of useful evidence for demonstrating communication skills, teamwork, organisation and planning and also taking part in volunteering in the community.
Become a Cadet
If you are thinking of joining the armed forces or emergency services, it is a good idea to see if you can get into the cadets, which is aimed at young people and develops your team skills and resilience. You will benefit from training, fun expeditions, relevant experiences and get to see whether it is something that would suit you as a career. Either way it looks good on your CV.
Volunteer for a charity or in the community
If you want to do a job working with the public and people, build up your experience by volunteering for a charity or for an organisation such as a nursery or care home - this will build up your confidence in working with people of different ages and backgrounds.
British Red Cross Youth Volunteering
Gain relevant work experience and part time work
Where possible, it is useful to get relevant work experience in Year 10 and Year 12. For some careers such as the army, police and medicine you will need to start researching this about 12 months ahead, as it is likely to be competitive and require a specific application process.
In some careers it may not be possible to do work experience. If that is the case - don't worry - see if you can develop your experience with people either through volunteering with a charity or a community group like Cubs or Brownies. Even volunteering weekly in a charity shop will bring you in touch with lots of different people and show your commitment to regular volunteering.
Part time jobs such as working in a cafe or a shop can be very useful for developing transferable customer service skills for dealing with the public and difficult situations.
Do you meet the fitness and medical requirements?
For many of these careers such as the armed forces, the police and firefighter there is requirement to be to a specific fitness standard and also to meet specific medical requirements. It is worth finding out what these are in advance, so you can check meet the criteria. As you would expect -they do vary depending on what career you are applying for. Check in advance to give yourself time to improve your running, swimming or number of press ups!
Other Careerpilot tools you can use to find jobs and courses that might suit you:
Do the Job Quiz and see what sectors match what you want from work.
Do the Skills Profile to see what skills you have now and save them to talk about on applications
Search for courses and apprenticeships related to creative