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    Work experience

    Information about applying for work experience at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

At NCHC work experience is a quality and meaningful activity designed to provide you with practical, interactive insights into the enormous range of careers that exist in healthcare, whilst maintain patient safety.

It aims to provide you with the following:

  • To help determine which NHS career is right for you
  • To become more informed about NHS career pathways, such as apprenticeships, clinical degrees etc
  • To develop knowledge regarding different roles within the NHS and how they care for patients
  • To find out what a day in the life of your chosen profession consists of
  • To understand what 'community healthcare' means
  • To determine if your transferable skills and values align with different NHS careers

 

Matthew Winn, CEO, highlights how important work experience is:

Our Work Experience programme provides practical, interactive insights into the enormous range of careers that exist in healthcare environments.  It seeks to both; confirm individual perceptions of the role that may have been chosen, and to broaden horizons introducing careers that people did not know existed!  It aims to support young people to make the right choice for them with our clinical staff inspiring them about their future.  At NCH&C, it highlights the meaningful impact individuals can have on patients, families, carers, and the community.

NCH&C currently offers a structured 5 day work experience programme designed to highlight the variety of careers at NCH&C. The 5 day programme held in Norwich offers an overview of NHS clinical professions which include pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, children's services, dietetics, psychology, speech and language therapy, podiatry, and occupational therapy. The 5 day programme is interactive and classroom based, with one days clinical visit to a ward or clinic.

We will offer places for those aged 14 years and above on the programme to be held in July and August 2026. Please watch this space to see when applications are open- this will be Winter 2025 to be confirmed.

Please note that we are not currently offering work experience placements outside of our advertised 5 day programmes.

Thank you for your interest in Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust.

Sample timetable

Click here to view a sample timetable for our 5-day programme