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NHSGGC Work Experience Opportunities

There are many different routes which enable people to start a career within the NHS. In NHSGGC we aim to offer a variety of opportunities. Some will help individuals make career choices by providing an insight into the various roles within our organisation and others will support people to develop knowledge and skills that may assist them into future employment.

We will prioritise requests from those who live 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 also send alerts to those people registered on our mailing list. Please register for an email alert below and check back on these webpages regularly.

Get Ready For …programmes

As an alternative to traditional work experience models NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde delivers a number of structured programmes designed to give you a simulated workshop based experience and valuable insight into your chosen career.

Full details of these will be published on these webpages and we send alerts to our mailing list contacts also. 

Register with our mailing list for updates when programmes go live.

Senior phase pupils

NHSGGC recognises the importance of helping young people to make an informed choice about the possible NHS careers and the pathways open to them. We are committed to supporting the transition from school into higher or further education, and employment, and offer placements to pupils in the senior phase of school to support this.

If you are looking for a placement that isn’t covered by a “Get Ready For…” programme, please note that we are no longer offering placing requests. However you may still submit a self found placement request once you have identified a department and host supervisor Self-Found Placement Request . NHSGGC do not provide a list of contacts. 

Important : self-found placements are not supported if we offer a Get Ready Programme. This includes self-found placements within Medicine and Nursing so please check what is running or in development. 

Work Experience for Medicine

To ensure that access to careers insight activity is available to everyone NHSGGC does not host Shadowing within a number of professions including Medicine. All requests for work experience, support self found placements for Medicine will be re directed to the Get Ready for Medicine Progamme

The Medical Schools Council and the Medical School locally are all clear that shadowing is not an essential part of “work experience” and is not needed for a successful medical school application, therefore we have developed number of resources to support young people to develop an insight studying medicine and working as a doctor.

You can view our resources at www.nhsggc.org/beadoctor and Home | YouCanBeADoctor

We do understand that there is a concern that young people are being disadvantaged by a lack of shadowing but the NHSGGC Medical staff who lead on the delivery of these programmes have confirmed with senior medical school staff that what we are offering is currently fulfilling the needs of the medical schools and is providing a greater insight into studying medicine and working as a doctor.

You can find more guidance on applying to study medicine on the Medical Schools Council website Studying medicine | Medical Schools Council (medschools.ac.uk)

Work Experience for Adults (applicants no longer in secondary school)

Adults are welcome to apply for our Get Ready Programmes.

At this time applicants are required to source placements by themselves i.e. we do not match applicants to host supervisors. A request for this type of placement should be made directly to the department of interest who will negotiate the content and length of the placement. Once the placement has been agreed with the applicant the host department will contact the Learning and Education team to confirm the arrangements.

Once you have identified a department and host supervisor you should complete the Self-Found Placement Request

Please note that self found placements are not supported if we offer a Get Ready Programme. This includes self found placements within Medicine.

Volunteering

Please note that volunteering is not considered to be a work experience opportunity. We have a significant number of volunteers in a range of role supportive roles. The NHSGGC volunteer programme is for those who wish to contribute to the wider community by giving their skills, talents and time to support the NHS and we seek people with such motivation. Full details on the range of our volunteering opportunities.

All volunteers are expected to participate in a recruitment/selection process and 2 character references are required. Disclosure clearance and Occupational Health screening.

Clinical Attachments

Requests for Clinical Attachments

Applications for Clinical Attachments/Observer can be made at NHS Scotland | Jobs | Search here for your perfect career

Employment Resources

There is a lot of information available on line to support you in planning your career pathway.