Shortage Occupations

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Shortage Occupations

There is especially a skills shortage in certain areas of Engineering, Healthcare, Education and other occupations. The current list of shortage occupations is:

Healthcare:

Doctors

• Salaried General Practitioners

Dentists

• Salaried Dental Practitioners
• Salaried Assistant Dentists
• Salaried Vocational Dental Practitioners
• Consultants in Paediatric Dentistry
• Consultants in Dental Specialties

Consultant Posts in the Following Areas:

• Accident & Emergency
• Additional Dental Specialities
• Anaesthetics
• Cardiology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Chemical Pathology
• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Clinical Cytogenics and Molecular Genetics
• Clinical Neurophysiology
• Clinical Oncology
• Clinical Radiology
• Dermatology Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus
• Endodentics
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Gastroenterology
• General Adult Psychiatry
• General Internal Medicine
• General Surgery
• Genito-urinary medicine
• Geriatric Medicine
• Haematology
• Histopathology
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases
• Intensive Care Medicine
• Medical Microbiology & Virology
• Medical Oncology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Nuclear Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Occupational Health
• Old Age Psychiatry
• Ophthalmology
• Oral & Maxillo-facial Surgery
• Orthodontics
• Otolaryngology
• Paediatric Cardiology
• Paediatrics
• Palliative Medicine
• Plastic Surgery
• Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities
• Psychotherapy
• Public Health Medicine
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Renal Medicine
• Respiratory Medicine
• Rheumatology
• Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
• Urology

General:

• Audiologist
• Audiological scientist
• Clinical Psychologist
• Dietician
• Occupational Therapist
• Pharmacists
• Pharmacy Technician
• Pre-Registration Cytogeneticists
• Senior Physiotherapists
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Social Worker
• State Registered Scientists In Cytogenetics
• Biomedical Scientist / Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer (M LSO)
• Qualified HPC registered Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers, including ultrasonographers

Nurses:

• All registered nurses and midwives
  • Railways Modeller
  • Railway Track Design or Permanent Way Engineer
  • Communications Engineer
  • Power Supply Engineer or Electrification Engineer
  • Structural Engineer
  • Infrastructure Engineer or Buildings Engineer
  • Bridge Engineer or Highways Structural Engineer
  • Traffic Engineer or Transport Planner
  • Transport Modeller or Transport Economist (The applicant would be expected to have experience in multi-model studies & modelling software such as TRIPS, EMME2, QVIEW, SATURN, PEDROUTE or Microsimulation)
  • Traffic Signal Engineer
  • Highways Design Engineer or Highways Planning Engineer
  • Highways Maintenance Engineer
  • Ground Engineering
  • Geo environmental Engineer
  • Geotechnical Engineer
  • Geological Advisor
  • Geological Analyst
  • Geological Associate
  • Geological Engineer
  • Geologist I Hydro geologist
  • Geology / Reservoir Engineer
  • Geo mechanics Engineer
  • Geophysical Specialist
  • Geophysicist
  • Geoscientist
  • Geo support Engineer.
  • Engineering Geologist
  • Ground Engineer
  • Contaminated Land Specialist
  • Actuaries
  • CAA Licensed Aircraft Engineers
  • Teachers - All posts in England covering compulsory schooling
  • Veterinary Surgeons

Engineering Shortage Occupations
For jobs that are listed below the person must have a degree with at least 2 years relevant experience from a civil, structures or electrical background. Senior positions in these posts would be expected to have at least 5 years relevant experience.

Structural / Bridge Engineers
For jobs that are listed below the person must have a degree with at least 2 years relevant experience from a structures background. Senior posts in the jobs listed below would generally require appropriate chartered status and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

Transportation and highways engineers
For jobs that are listed below the person must have a transport related degree or a degree with at least 2 years relevant experience from a civil background.

Last Updated July 2005

Other Occupations

If you have high level qualifications and a job offer from a UK company in a shortage occupation then PERMITS2WORK's expertise can help make it straightforward to apply for a work permit with a Home Office decision usually within a week of application.