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A new booklet designed to inspire women from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities to work in health and social care will be launched at a special careers event on Wednesday.
The Your Pathway To A Career In Health booklet has first hand stories from people who have worked in the NHS and aims to encourage women to find out about the range of opportunities available.
Staff featured in the booklet give their personal experiences of how they started working in these areas and how they progressed their careers. The ‘Careers in health and social care’ event is being run by Oldham Primary Care Trust and Highway to Opportunities.
All the latest information on training opportunities in organisations across the borough will be available and there will be presentations from Gail Richards, Oldham PCT chief executive, BME women health and care staff in a range of roles as well as practical advice on the job application process. The event will be chaired by Jayne Entwistle H2O’s director.
Sue King, Pathways to Health training coordinator with Oldham PCT said: “We want to increase awareness of training opportunities in health and social care, including first steps and progression routes."
“We hope this event will encourage more women from local communities to think about working in health and social care because it is important that local organisations reflect the area they are based in. There are many language and social skills they can bring to local organisations such as the PCT which helps us to better serve people’s healthcare needs.”
The event is being held at the Pakistani Community Centre, Marlborough Street Glodwick.
There will also be presentations of certificates for people who have successfully completed a Training Skills for New Trainers course.
This is a level 2 Open College Network course which was delivered to PCT staff and community members in spring this year.
Two participants on the course have already gone on to gain jobs within the PCT as health trainers and a third is now working as a trainer with unemployed people in a voluntary organisation.
Others are using the skills developed to deliver training within their current jobs in the health and social care field.
