Optum UK

Join us on our mission to improve UK healthcare🚀

At Optum, we’re tackling healthcare’s biggest challenges, combining intelligent technology, advanced data insights, and deep clinical expertise. Our mission is clear; to help people live healthier lives and make the health and care system work better for everyone.

As a leading technology-enabled health services business, we provide innovative solutions that support clinicians across all major healthcare settings. With nearly 40 years of experience, we’ve helped clinicians deliver high-quality, cost-effective care while enhancing the health and wellbeing of patients. Our systems are used by 100,000 healthcare professionals across 10,000 organisations, supporting seamless, connected care for 42.8 million people.

Our data-driven approach helps teams to identify health trends, assess risks, and support value-based care—making it easier to allocate resources, inform decisions, and deliver scalable interventions that reduce costs and improve lives.

We’re also enabling the expanded role of community pharmacy, increasing capacity in primary care, and driving equitable clinical research to accelerate new treatments.

Our clinically led team brings real-world expertise in running and supporting healthcare systems globally. By engaging stakeholders at every level, we transform strategies into effective operational plans, ensuring value-based care solutions that improve patient experience, drive efficiency, and enhance wellbeing.

Careers at Optum

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology, to help millions of people live healthier lives. Here, you'll find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Our culture

If you thrive in a high-performance, high-accountability environment — where our values shape the pursuit of our mission — this is truly a place where you will find opportunities focused on Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Join us in making our health care system work better for everyone, while helping people live healthier lives.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

We embrace diversity and recognize the different talents and perspectives each employee brings. We do this through Employee Resource Groups, inclusive hiring practices and initiatives like our $100 million investment to support the education of 10,000 underrepresented health professionals.

Social impact

UnitedHealth Group integrates social impact and sustainability into our core operations. We're committed to enhancing health care access and improving outcomes, combining innovative health care solutions with sustainable practices to tackle today's pressing health challenges.

Opportunities to grow at Optum 

We develop and support a wide range of healthcare products across a rich combination of front end, back end, dev ops and data analytics technologies. It means there’s something to suit every interest and opportunities to learn and grow, whether you're interested in React, Typescript, .Net or AWS to name a few.