NHSGGC is keen to ensure that school pupils have access to accurate information in relation to NHS careers and pathways and recognise our role providing advice and guidance in the school environment. Our schools engagement programme aims to inform, educate and entertain. We help broaden pupils job aspirations, tackle stereotypes about jobs and careers and most importantly highlight the huge range of career opportunities and career pathways within the NHS.
Our engagement programme supports your school’s careers provision as it will help your pupils to link their subject choices to career pathways and supports student aspirations through supportive encounters with employers, employees and role models. We engage with schools through a range of activities:
- NHS Careers Ambassadors
- Careers events
- Virtual visits.
NHS Careers Ambassadors
Our NHS Profession Ambassadors work in a wide range of roles. They can talk to your students about their specific profession, raise awareness of the wide range of NHS Careers, host discussions to support subject choice and share their own career stories. We can tailor session for a specific age group or subject area or Job Family.
Find out more about NHS Scotland Job Families or visit the NHS Scotland Careers website.
Virtual Visits
Our school visits programme can include virtual visits to schools. These visits can take the form of:
- Q&A session specific to a profession
- General advice and guidance on subject choices
- NHS careers pathways and entry routes
- Apprenticeships awareness sessions
- Mock interviews.
What you need to know when making a request
- There is no charge for the visit or talk
- We will prioritise requests from schools within the NHSGGC Board area. If you are outside our catchment area please contact the HR Department for your local health board for support
- We will endeavour to support any request attendance at careers events and parents evenings however we give priority to schools within SIMD 1 and 2 areas or schools who have not had a visit from us before.
How to Organise a Visit
Although we endeavour to arrange a session at your school, we may redirect your visit request to one of our timetabled events or sessions.
1. Decide which of the sessions we offer is most suitable for your class or year group
You may want to bring a number of classes together or ask our Ambassador or the Careers team to address an assembly.
2. Contact us with your request
We will endeavour find a suitable Ambassador you but please note that our Ambassadors are also NHS Professionals delivering a service to patients therefore a minimum of 4 weeks notice is required and we cannot always guarantee your preferred date(s).
Email your request with as many details as you can give us by emailing mark.goldie@nhs.scot
3. Let us know your objectives
For example, is it to support a particular subject area or to give a general overview as part of the careers programme? Please give details about the age of your students so we can tailor the talk.
4. Prepare your students
Tell your students about the visit/session. Ask them to think of questions they’d like to ask. If possible, share these questions with the Ambassador in advance.
5. Please allow enough time
We suggest our Ambassadors deliver a 15-30 minute talk followed by 15-30 minutes of questions and discussion.
Be prepared to remain with your students to ensure the visit/session runs smoothly.
6. Follow up
Consider follow-up lessons relating to the curriculum or careers. Your feedback is important. Please complete the online evaluation we will send you.
Terms and Conditions
By completing our request form you are agreeing to our terms and conditions.
We do our best to honour our bookings but we cannot guarantee against staff unavailability, illness, adverse weather conditions, transport problems, or other factors beyond our reasonable control.
If we cannot complete a planned visit, we will tell you as soon as possible and offer you the opportunity to make alternative arrangements.
If you can no longer host the scheduled visit, please tell us as soon as possible to allow us to either cancel the visit or reschedule it for a later date.
