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Gender and age breakdown
Typically, the health and social care sector tends to attract a larger proportion of female than male employees. This is in part due to the perception of the NHS as a 'caring profession'. Employment figures by gender for the brokerages reflects this, as shown below, apart from the construction brokerage where not surprisingly the gender split is heavily in favour of males. However, staff at the health and social care brokerages do explain to job seekers that there are many non–gender specific roles in the health service and more male applicants are beginning to apply for jobs, as 2005 figures show.
Gender breakdown, where known, by brokerage 2004-2005
2004 Male |
2004 Female |
2005 Male |
2005 Female |
|
| ACE | 4 |
40 |
25 |
75 |
| Jobs Junction | 8 |
14 |
44 |
123 |
| Jobshac | 17 |
35 |
23 |
41 |
| Oldchurch | 202 |
11 |
455 |
6 |
| Total | 231 |
100 |
547 |
245 |
In 2004, the gender split for employment amongst the three health and social care brokerages was 25% male and 75% female. In 2005, the split was 28% male and 72% female.
Age breakdown
Most of the jobs recruited into by the brokerages were filled by people aged between 25 to 54. However, all three brokerages successfully recruited amongst the older age groups too, with 8.6% of people aged 55 and over being employed in 2004 and 8.2% in 2005.
Age breakdown of people recruited 2004
16-24 |
25-34 |
35-44 |
45-54 |
55+ |
|
| ACE | 6 |
9 |
9 |
15 |
5 |
| Jobs Junction | 3 |
5 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
| Jobshac | 6 |
13 |
21 |
19 |
3 |
| Oldchurch | N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Total (%) | 15
(11.8%) |
27 (21%) |
37 (29%) |
38 ( 29.6%) |
11 ( 8.6%) |
Age breakdown of people recruited 2005
16-24 |
25-34 |
35-44 |
45-54 |
55+ |
|
| ACE | 29 |
31 |
12 |
22 |
6 |
| Jobs Junction | 22 |
47 |
52 |
28 |
18 |
| Jobshac | 4 |
18 |
25 |
14 |
3 |
| Oldchurch | N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Total (%) | 55 (16.6%) |
96 (29%) |
89 (26.9%) |
64 (19.3%) |
27 (8.2%) |
The three largest age groups recruited to in 2004-2005 were:
- 25 – 34 years
- 35 – 44 years
- 45 – 54 years
It is worth noting that 54% of the total recruited into jobs via the three health and social care job brokerages were aged 35+ years, which illustrates the predicted government trend of an ageing population working for longer.