Welcome to AlliedHealth.ie. You are most likely here because you have an interest in finding out more about the Healthcare sector; you are actively searching for positions within the medical industry or would like to find out more about us and how we can help you...

As a graduate of the Allied Health, Nursing or Medical faculties, your career path is less fuzzy, with a defined state graduate program in the healthcare industries. If your degree is in radiography, you must obtain membership of the Irish Institute of Radiography before you can start working in the Irish healthcare system. If you are a medical scientist, your regulatory body is the Academy of Medical Laboratory Scientists, and membership is required to work in the public and private healthcare systems. However, you can still work in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology sectors without your AMLS. If you have a nursing degree you will need to secure an Bord Altranais registration before you can work as a nurse in all public or private hospitals, however, you may work pre-registration as a care-assistant in some instances. Sometimes medical professionals choose not to enter the public healthcare system, and opt instead for private industry. The general path for nurses and allied health professionals taking this option is into sales or advisory roles within the pharmaceutical industry. If you have a degree in medicine, again you have a defined path within the public healthcare system, with registration with the Irish Medical Council a prerequisite for public employment. If you opt instead to enter private industry, your general path will take you into medical advisory roles within pharmaceutical companies.

Career Profiles commonly encountered in the Healthcare sector in Ireland include:

• Medical Scientist
• Radiographer
• Cardiac Catheterisation Technician
• Pharmacist
• Nurse
• Dietician
• Clinical Psychologist
• Occupational Therapist
• Doctor

For Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs positions such as Medical Advisor, Medical Science Liaison, Nurse Advisor and Pharmacovigilance please visit our sister site MedicalAffairs.ie

If you are interested in Pharmaceutical Commercial Affairs positions such as pharmaceutical sales representatives, product managers and hospital representatives, please visit out specialist site PharmaSales.ie

We have designed the information contained in this site to give you a complete understanding of the Healthcare sector in Ireland; to give you an understanding of how the recruitment process works and to allow you to look at the different career profiles within the sector and to choose where you could potentially fit in and what you need to do to achieve your goal. Please feel free to contact us for advice or information.