Health and Social Care

Health care is the various services involved in the prevention, treatment or management of illnesses and injuries. Care can take place in hospitals, health centres, doctors’ surgeries, dental surgeries or opticians, for example. Social care generally involves providing personal care and assistance to children, young people, adults and the elderly in our community.

There are over

jobs in this sector in Hull and East Yorkshire

This accounts for over

of jobs in the region

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The NHS in England employs over 1.5m people, making it one of the largest employers in the world.
There are over 350 different types of careers in the NHS!
In terms of employment, health and social care is the fourth-largest sector in Hull and East Yorkshire. It also has the fourth-highest growth in employment numbers, with an additional 3,115 jobs added with organisations in the sector since 2015.
In Hull and East Yorkshire, approximately 33% of employment in the health and social care sector is in hospitals, 22% is in residential care, 19% in social work activities, 14% in community health activities, such as community nurses, midwives and health visitors, 6% with doctors surgeries, and 2% with dentists.
Since 2015, in Hull and East Yorkshire, the greatest growth in employment in the health and social care sector has been in hospitals, adding an additional 2,000 jobs; community health (e.g. community nurses, midwives and health visitors), adding an additional 1,500 jobs; and residential care for children, adding an additional 575 jobs.

Source: NHS Digital, BRES (2025)

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The fastest-growing age group in England is people aged 65 and over. In Yorkshire and the Humber, if the adult social care workforce grows proportionally to the number of people in this age group, the total number of jobs will need to increase by 24% to 208,000 by 2040. This is an additional 40,000 posts.
In 2025, 16% of all online job adverts posted in Hull and East Yorkshire were for roles with the NHS, a total of 11,214 jobs, which was higher than for any other organisation in the region.
In 2025, eight of the top fifty occupations advertised by companies seeking to recruit staff were in the health and social care sector. Care worker and home carer was the most most advertised occupation, with 4,855 total online job adverts; other registered nursing professional was fifth, with 1,744; nursing auxiliary was tenth, with 1,067; health associate professional was fourteenth, with 845; health care practice manager was sixteenth, with 789; specialist medical practitioner was twenty-eighth, with 525; registered nursing practitioner was twenty-ninth, with 523; and medical and dental technician was forty-ninth, with 209.

Source: Skills for Care Regional Summaries 2025, Lightcast (2026)

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