Work experience allows people to experience what it’s like to undertake a job supervised by staff who already work in the environment. Work experience can vary from ‘tasters’ lasting just half a day through to programmes over one or two weeks, a few months or a year.

Some work experience placements offer a hands-on experience, while some provide insights, observation and work shadowing. All can provide a valuable experience for people looking to move into a career in the health sector and significant benefits for organisations like yours.

A good quality work experience placement should be well organised, purposeful, have a clear role, and be reviewed. Those taking part will need to be supervised which can provide an opportunity for existing staff wishing to develop some management and leaderships skills.

For an employer, a programme can provide the first step in a ‘grow your own’ approach to building your workforce and feeding your talent pipeline.

BSol Training Hub have teamed up with SpringPod to create a virtual work experience programme, highlighting the roles in Primary Care. This programme is open to anyone aged 14+ from Birmingham, Solihull and surrounding areas

Click on the link below to find out more and the next available programme dates.

Observe GP is an alternative to work experience for aspiring medics aged 16 and over, who are living in the UK. It is a free interactive video platform providing insights into the role of a GP and the wider primary care team

Click on the link below for more information and to search for opportunities

The ‘I Can’ programme has been designed to help unemployed and young people from Birmingham and Solihull into entry-level jobs in health and social care. Undertake a training programme to learn more about the role you have expressed an interest in or understand what job opportunities there are to allow you to make a choice

Click on the link below for more information and details on how to apply

Start your journey to become an NHS volunteer.

Discover the many ways you can have an impact on the experiences of patients, their families and medical staff

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Birmingham and Solihull Training Hub (BSol TH) have funded the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet Scheme. Our aim is to promote General Practice as a first choice career path for recruitment into the workforce across BSol.

We collaborated with South and City College to identify students to undertake this scheme. They were able to identify 13 students.

They all had a placement in General Practice for a 13 hour observational placement. BSol TH delivered a 7 hour induction day with the cadets

Partnering with Springpod, we created a programme that covered the distinct areas of primary care and the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities within these.

Primary care covers more than GPs and paramedics, and the BSol Training Hub was keen to highlight and demystify roles within primary care in the local area.

Key to this was explaining to students considering primary care careers what roles are available and what they entail. The Hub wanted the programme to complement existing training offerings, and some physical work experience programmes on offer. It was keen to attract a diverse cohort, reflective of the area in which it operates.

The Bsol Training Hub were invited to attend Colmers School annual Interview Day Event for their Year 10 students, where the students get the chance to ‘apply’ for a job and be interviewed by a professional within that career.

In preparation for the day, we created job adverts for Healthcare Support Workers and Administrator roles working within primary care that were shared with the students.

On the day, we were given a list of students each that we were scheduled to see, and prior to meeting with them, we went through their CVs and application packs and scored them based on, first impressions, body language and eye contact…….