Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Welcome to Wye Valley NHS Trust work placement and work experience opportunities.
As the largest employer in the UK the NHS has over 350 different careers to choose from. You could be a speech and language therapist, chef, dietitian, cleaner, secretary, engineer, laboratory scientist, occupational therapist, or maybe a surgeon. The list goes on.
Work experience and work placements within the NHS aim to show you how the NHS really works and what the NHS is really like. It can also help you develop lots of transferable skills like being a part of a team and communication skills, which may help give you a head start when you apply for a job or university course. Participating in work experience and/or work placements also demonstrates a commitment to your future career within the organisation.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is committed to widening access, supporting people into and staying in a career within the NHS. We have various clinical and non-clinical specialities, departments, teams and roles that can be accessed as part of your work experience/placement experience!
It might be that you already work in the Trust and just want to explore what other roles or teams are like to work in to help you decide on a new career path.
We offer up to 75 hours of work experience hours, which gives plenty of time for individuals to move around the Trust and work with different teams. We have various work experience offers.
- Are you looking for a work experience opportunity for yourself, but not sure where to start? Visit our independent offer website page.
- Are you 14 years old plus and know someone who works in the Trust who would be willing to arrange a work experience placement for you? Visit our work experience arranged by a Trust member of staff website page.
- Are you a WVT staff member and know someone who is interested in doing work experience here and you are happy to arrange the work experience placement yourself? Visit our work experience arranged by a Trust member of staff website page.
- Are you at studying/working at a college and looking for a work experience placements as a large group? Visit our current further education website page.
- Are you studying/working at college and require work placement hours as part of a college course? Visit our work placement website page.
- Are you a WVT staff member who would like to arrange work experience for yourself? Visit our Trust staff members work experience website page.
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Future options
Completing work experience can massively support you in achieving you future goals and career aspirations. Evidencing what you have undertaken on future academic and job applications demonstrates your experience, commitment and motivation within the field you are interested in working in and/or developing towards.
The opportunities available to you at this Trust do not end with work experience. You could become a volunteer at the Trust, apply to undertake one of our many apprenticeship programmes or join the team in a substantive role and access educational opportunities such as apprenticeships within your role to develop and progress further within the organisation.
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Contact us
If you would like more information email the work experience team workexperience@wvt.nhs.uk or you can also call the team on 07976223042.
Feedback from work experience students
- Staff were extremely welcoming within all departments and were extremely supportive.
- Seeing everything they do made it become a reality and solidified my decision to go into medicine/healthcare.
- This placement helped me to explore and learn about many different roles that I didn’t even know existed beforehand.
- They were so lovely in spending time to explain things.
- It gave me an incredible insight into the work I could do.
- It exceeded my expectations and was a thoroughly enjoyable week.
- Seeing the hospital and the wards gave me a sense of what I would like to be a part of.
Work experience resources
- Springpod virtual work experience programme for health and social care
- Talent Academy - for doctors
- NHS career finder questionnaire
- NHS careers A to Z
- Further education courses and funding
- Higher education courses
- Wye Valley NHS Trust apprenticeships
- Wye Valley NHS Trust NHS careers
- Wye Valley NHS Trust volunteers
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