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Barnsley is a place where everyone can fulfil their learning potential and find a job that’s right for them. Opportunities for learning and working builds the skills, talent and creativity among people of all ages, and opens exciting prospects. This means that more people can excel with inclusive, quality employment, and businesses can benefit from our talented workforce.
As well as all the current job vacancies across every single neighbourhood of Barnsley - yes really - there are lots of different routes into getting a job in this sector.
Check out the latest NHS spotlighted jobs acros Barnsley. These are updated each week.
Working in social care jobs: You'll find roles helping people to continue living independently in their own homes and lead happy, healthy lives in one of our care homes. For many of our roles, you don't need any previous experience. If you've the right caring qualities, we can teach you the rest.
You'll need a few core skills, like working well in teams and being able to build strong relationships. Most of all, we're looking for passionate people who love helping others.
You can find available options on the following care provider websites:
Caremark
Professional and personal home care services tailored to people's needs.
Cera
Care assistant roles helping people to stay living independently.
Home Instead
Home Instead combines care and compassion to provide quality care for older people.
Medacs
Medacs work within local communities to deliver personalised home care to meet people's needs.
Trust Home Care
Operating in Barnsley, Trust Home Care provide high quality, personalised care in peoples' homes.
Exemplar Health Care
Offering specialist nursing care for adults living with a range of complex needs.
Hillcare
Supporting older people and those in need of a little extra help with a caring and can-do attitude.
Prospect House
Prospect House has been at the heart of the community for over 20 years, providing residential, respite, and end-of-life care.
St. James Court (Crown Care)
Crown Care's approach to care has long recognised that “people make places”.
Wood Care Group
Wood Care Group provide first class care to residents in warm and comfortable environments.
Barnsley Council and the NHS are teaming up with the Prince’s Trust to help more young people to explore the possibilities and get started in the health and social care sector.
There are more opportunities than you might expect! We’re on hand to help you find a role that suits you. From admin, to healthcare, IT, cleaning, catering, facilities management, to care work, and so much more. Our team can help you get started in care with support: for job searches and applying for roles during the interview process with tips and techniques to access financial help for employment to develop your skills and employability with relevant training and learning through a committed mentor to help throughout the process
Contact them online to speak to a friendly advisor.
In your first three months of a job with the NHS or a care provider, we can offer: a dedicated mentor to help with your progress, who provides regular contact and guidance access to financial assistance for employment opportunities to develop your skills resilience techniques and stress management signposting support
Check here for the latest work experience vacancies in Barnsley.
Apply now: NHS Blood and Transplant work experience in Barnsley. Closing date for applications is April 21st 2024. Applications have opened for a great work experience opportunity with NHS Blood and Transplant in Barnsley for the week commencing 15 July. The work experience is for students aged 14-18 years (Years 10-13) and will be of especial interest to anyone thinking of a laboratory-based career.
Students must be sponsored to participate by their school or college. Students can apply for their preferred work experience programme here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=jxsa4VKPCEaPdkZ_8dNMliA0KloGY9NImzBK9z4SqMRUQ1E1ME9HWjRDQTA1VTdNT1pYRTdaQUJOVyQlQCN0PWcu.
Applications close on 21st April.
Local colleges offer courses for anyone 16 and over. They include T levels, apprenticeships, higher education access courses, right through to foundation degrees. There are courses specifically in health and care as well as lots more other opportunities for the range of roles in this sector - think finance, admin, marketing, plumbing plus many more.
Our four-week training programme will teach you everything you need to know about working in care. We'll give you all the tools you need to get started.
After a few weeks of teaching, you’ll come away with the skills and knowledge you need to start in one of Barnsley’s varied health and care roles.
From here, we'll link you with local employers to help you find the perfect job for you.
Adult skills training: If you are 19 or older, there's a range of local sessions on offer to help you get the skills you're looking for a new job or volunteer role. This might be everyday numeracy or English or employability skills like applying for jobs and preparing for job interviews.
They offer free tatser courses and many of the courses don't need entry qualifications.
These are the main health and social care employers in Barnsley. You'll find out more about them on their websites or search for them on social media.
Barnsley Healthcare Federation: Better health, better care for a better Barnsley. We manage the Barnsley Primary Care Network (PCN), which is made up of 32 GP practices, and run the iHEART Barnsley out of hours GP service. We also deliver a number of community healthcare services, such as health and wellbeing coaching, social prescribing and first contact physiotherapy, and directly manage BHF GP practices.
Barnsley Hospice: Comfort, care and dignity. We are a charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care to local people living with a life-limiting illness and those close to them. Our care strives to improve the quality of life for patients and their families by providing pain and symptom relief; practical, emotional, spiritual and social support; counselling and bereavement support services. The hospice is not just a building – it is a way of caring for people. With our support, patients are able to benefit from the best possible care throughout their illness and at the end of their life.
A wide range of roles are available, all offering the chance to learn, develop and grow. Whether you're supporting someone in their own home, helping people out in the community or working in one of our care homes, you'll be helping to care for our borough. Some roles involve offering physical and emotional support. These include personal care as well as helping people to get around in their community or stay active. Others will see you helping make sure our services and care homes run smoothly. Here's some of the roles you could do.
NHS Blood and Transplant: We help people do something extraordinary - donate blood, organs, tissues or stem cells to save someone in need. One of their facilities is based in Dodworth, Barnsley providing services to surrounding hospitals.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust: We cover nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities. We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
Voluntary and community organisations. There are hundreds of these across Barnsley, some who offer services directly related to people's health and wellbeing and some whose work improves their local communities. Many of these are members of Barnsley CVS - your one-stop-shop for information about what's happening in the voluntary and community sector jobs and volunteering in Barnsley.
Visit the Barnsley volunteer centre for the latest opportunities.
Volunteering is when someone spends unpaid time doing something to benefit others. Volunteering can be formal and organised by organisations, or informal within communities. It should always be a free choice made by the person giving their time.
Volunteering has many benefits, including gaining experience relevant to employment or education, learning new skills, improved physical and mental health, making friends, and giving back to the community. Whatever your reason, we can help you find the right volunteering opportunity for you.
Local health and care organisations also have a range of volunteering opportunities:
Health and care jobs are based all over the borough. They might be in your neighbourhood, in town or in an area you've never been to before.
We want you to have the best chance of getting a job or volunteer role that suits you.
Don't let a location put you off - always check with the people advertising the role if it's not clear. Not all job adverts are as clear as they could be so it always pays to ask.
