5 Entry Level Jobs in the Healthcare Industry

Cracking into the healthcare industry is incredibly difficult at the moment, mainly due to the fact that a lot of people right now seem to have the inherent desire to help. However, most people are heading for the ‘top jobs’ and are not really having any success, after all, there are plenty of more experienced people out there. If you are serious about entering the healthcare industry then you will want to find a position that will give you a good grounding, sure, you may have to start at the ground floor, but do your position well and you will find that you quickly work your way up the ladder.

1.     1.   Becoming a medical assistant is often regarded as one of the best ways to get your foot on the first rung of that ladder. A medical assistant will have a number of tasks at their disposal, most will involve dealing with patients, which can include checking their vital signs and helping to prepare them for examinations. You will constantly be exposed to patient care, and therefore you will learn a lot of information that will take you almost anywhere in the healthcare career, this is why it is the perfect start.

2.       2.  Medical Secretary, this job is for people that have an interest in medicine but do not like the ‘hands on’ approach with patients. Here you will be scheduling appointments, billing patients and getting involved with insurance companies.  Many medical secretaries eventually move into medical record keeping, or even transcriptions. A few also use it as a starting point before becoming a medical administrator.

3.       3. Occupational Therapy Assistant. This position is for those people that have a desire to eventually become an occupational therapist. In this position you will have a ‘hands on’ role in preparing treatment plans for your patients, as well as assisting in the carrying out of the treatments. Whilst most people use this role to break into occupational therapy, some people do use it to help forge a career in counselling or even nursing. There is a plethora of options available to you once you have the experience of this position.

4.       4. A massage therapist may not seem like the best way to break into the industry, but it actually is, and the pay isn’t too bad either. You can use the experience you gain as a masseuse to break  into alternative medicine, much of which is being accepted into hospitals nowadays.

5.       5. Medical Transcriptions will transcribe medical reports. They will obtain detailed knowledge of the workings of a hospital and medical treatments, this will of course give them a fantastic array of knowledge to call upon in the future when they wish to expand their horizons.

Check around your area from time to time and see if any of these positions pop up, if they do then snap up the chance of applying as quickly as possible. These positions will be the quickest way into the healthcare industry, and everybody has to start somewhere.