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Work Experience Partnerships
If you are an employer looking to offer work experience to young people, or a teacher looking to develop more experiences of the workplace for your students, then get in touch.
The South Yorkshire health and care careers team helps schools partner with a local care home, health centre, pharmacy, opticians or other local healthcare employers to create lasting work experience partnership. We have a tried and tested model which is easy to manage for both parties.
Contact rebecca.mcqueen1@nhs.net to discuss your partnership opportunities.
Guide for health and care employers: Starting your partnership between a local school or college .
Thank you for being part in this important project, partnering with your local secondary school or college to provide much needed work experiences to pupils.
Your partnership will support the school to achieve Gatsby Benchmark 6, one of eight measures that ensure students receive good careers guidance. It also helps inspire and attract young people into careers within the health and social care, by offering them new opportunities in their local community.
This guidance includes information about who can offer work experiences using the partnership model, models of work experience, a toolkit of resources, sample timetables and sample objectives to help you create a successful session. Once you get started you can use these to adapt to your own service.
We invite interest from any health or social care service including (but not limited to):
We have trialled three types of visits. You may want to replicate one of these offers or try a bespoke model of your own
Option A: Year 10 students (aged 14-15) visit for up to two hours. During this time, they meet a range of different job holders and get some hands-on practical time too. The object of the visit is to give students with an interest in Health and Social Care careers more insight into the careers available and to have chance to ‘feel’ if this type of work is for them. Activities are mainly ‘classroom’ based but may include site tour.
Option B: College students (aged 16-18) visit for up to two days. During this time they meet a range of different job holders, get hands-on practical time, follow patient journeys, apply problem solving skills and take part in simulation to re-enact real life scenarios. The object of the visit is to give students with an interest in Health and Social Care careers significant insight into roles, careers and working in the sector. Activities are classroom/sim based.
Option C: is aimed at aspiring medics from Years 12 and 13. Students meet GP’s and/or trainee GPs to have informed conversations, gain advice and support for their UCAS applications into medicine and to explore plan B career options, for the just in case. Activities may include some element of work shadowing.
You may offer any combination of site visits to your partner scool or college.
To support your partnership and visits to your surgery we have a toolkit. Here are details about that toolkit and how to use the resources.
Click on the links to download the word document - feel free to adapt to your service.
During the work experience students will:
Example for a 2-hour work experience
Day 1