People keep hearing the words digital health and informatics without ever being shown what sits underneath them. So here is the map, with the jargon taken out. Our data organises non-clinical and digital NHS work into twenty-five domains. This guide walks all of them, grouped so they are easy to read, with a real example role in each and the band range where roles tend to sit.
Pay is kept light here on purpose. When you find a domain that interests you, our companion guide sets out what these roles actually pay by Agenda for Change band, on real figures.
The ways in at entry level
If you have no prior digital experience, these are the domains with genuine ground-floor roles
Where clinical knowledge is the asset
These domains actively want people who have worked in care. Your clinical background is the qualification, not a thing to apologise for.
Data and building
Change and delivery
Running services, and protecting them
People and the public
How to use this map
You do not need to understand all twenty-five to make a move. Pick the two or three that made you lean in, and read deeper. If your instinct is that your clinical background is your strongest card, start with the clinical-knowledge group. If you want the surest-footed route on the evidence we hold, project and programme management is the largest and best-evidenced field, and our pay guide covers it in detail. Wherever you land, the next step is to look at one domain closely rather than all of them at once.
Cheers,
Dr. Ron
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The figures here come from Career Co-Pilot, my platform for non-clinical NHS career intelligence, built on real NHS job-pack data. Full breakdown at careercopilot.academy.