Careers at Optum
Optum is a global organisation using technology, data, and expertise to help millions of people live healthier lives. Our teams in Ireland and the UK have delivered innovative solutions to health systems for decades, improving performance, driving innovation, and creating smarter ways to improve health outcomes. Join us and use your skills to help shape the future of healthcare. Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Career areas
Explore opportunities where you can help make a difference in people's lives.
Optum in Ireland and the UK
Across Ireland and the UK, we bring together specialists from a range of fields to tackle healthcare’s most complex challenges. From product innovation to building healthier communities, our teams make a difference every day. For certain roles, we offer relocation or sponsorship to bring the expertise we need.
Optum Ireland
For over 25 years, we’ve led healthcare innovation — applying AI, advanced analytics, cloud platforms, and automation to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance system performance across healthcare, pharmacy, and pharmaceutical services. Main offices: Dublin & Letterkenny
Optum UK
For over 20 years, Optum has supported the UK health service and health systems worldwide for more than 100,000 professionals across 10,000+ organisations. We combine software, analytics, medicines optimisation, and population health expertise to strengthen care across primary, secondary, and community settings. Main offices: London & Leeds
What we do at Optum
Our organisation as a workplace
Join us on a career journey with a collaborative team energised by a common cause. We help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone.
Learn more about our family of businesses — UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare and Optum.
Read our blog for more stories and ways we're Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our mission
Our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone.
Our values
Integrity.
We do the right thing and follow through on our shared commitment to Quality.
Inclusion.
We welcome, value, respect and hear all voices and diverse points of view.
Compassion.
We listen, advocate and act with urgency for those we serve and our colleagues.
Relationships.
We work together to deepen connections and collaboration for better outcomes.
Innovation.
We invent a better future by learning from the past.
Performance.
We strive for high Quality results in everything we do.
See how our teams in Ireland and the UK are living our values
From advancing health and wellness to building stronger communities, our social responsibility programmes and focus on innovative health solutions show our values in action every day.
- Ireland – Explore our community impact, including education scholarships, mentoring programmes, charity partnerships, and volunteering.
- United Kingdom – See how we live our values through innovation in population health and medicines optimisation, using data and prevention strategies to improve health and strengthen communities.
