Person Specification

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Work Experience Details

Organisations within Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire region offer a number of placements within our hospital trusts and community health and care providers.

Placements for under 16-year-olds will need to be organised through your school’s careers lead. Your careers lead will have been contacted by their allocated NHS organisation with instructions.

Placements will give students an experience within health and social care in both clinical and non-clinical settings. Each placement will follow this pattern:
– 2 days virtual work experience (online learning), students will be expected to attend these sessions at home or at school
– 3 days face to face placement

Our goal is to promote the 350 different careers within Health and Social care and;
– Provide over 600 placements to young people across the BNSSG region.
– For all organisations to achieve the NHS England Gold Quality Standard.
– Schools and colleges in the BNSSG region to be provided with at least 1 work experience placement as part of this scheme.

We support a large number of schools and our placement windows are based on placement availability rather than schools work experience windows. We understand that this is not ideal, and we would love to be able to provide placements when it suits each individual school. Sadly, due to the large number of work experience, apprenticeship, degree and post-graduate placements we deliver (estimated to be over 5,000 annually) we have to fit work experience placements into a yearly calendar based on placement allocation.

Placements for over 16-year-olds are offered to students at school and college by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston workexperience@uhbw.nhs.uk and North Bristol Trust (Southmead Hospital) workexperience@nbt.nhs.uk.
The process within each hospital varies, to find out more about please email one of the organisations for more details.