Work experience
Work experience is an opportunity for you to try out career ideas and rule out options, find out more about your strengths, values, motivations and interests, develop your soft skills, such as teamwork
and problem solving and provide you with an insight into the world of work.
At Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust we can offer a small selection of work experience placements, up to five days, for young people in year 10 and above within the teams and settings below.
All of our placement sites have been through a risk assessment process and all work experiences have clear aims and objectives for the learner.
How to apply
If you’re interested please request and complete the application form by emailing workexperience@bdct.nhs.uk
Work experience enquiries are managed by our Centre for Clinical Education and Professional Development.
For information about our Trust, see our services and join our team.
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Learning opportunities/objectives
Reception duties to include, welcoming visitors, answering the phone, incoming
mail sort, franking outgoing mail.Location: Bradford Disctrict Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Headquarters, New Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire BD18 3LD.
Hours of placement: Monday to Friday, 9.00am-4.00pm
Uniform: Polo top will be provided. Work experience learners must wear smart dark trousers (no jeans) and smart flat shoes (no trainers or open toe sandals).
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Learning opportunities/objectives
- Understand the role of the library and health promotion services within the
NHS and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. - Learn about customer service principles like being helpful, courteous and patient to support NHS staff.
- Understand basic library classification systems used in the library.
- Understand health promotion activities.
- Practice searching library databases for medical information, using keywords and filters effectively.
Location: Lynfield Mount Hospital library, Heights Lane, Bradford BD9 6DP.
Hours of placement: Monday to Friday, 10.00am -2.00pm
Uniform: a work experience polo top will be provided. Work experience learners must wear smart dark trousers (no jeans) and smart flat shoes (no trainers or open toe sandals)
- Understand the role of the library and health promotion services within the
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Learning opportunities/objectives
Waste audit, energy audit, drafting news, data management, green therapy support
e.g. gardening.This would be a good placement for someone who is interested in the environment and potentially would like a career in a ‘green job’.
Location: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust headquarters, New Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire BD18 3LD.
Hours of placement: Monday to Friday, 9.00am-4.00pm
Uniform: Polo top will be provided. Work experience learners must wear smart dark trousers (no jeans) and smart flat shoes (no trainers or open toe sandals).
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Learning opportunities/objectives
- Participating in volunteer-led activity groups in community venues (Well
Together). - Shadowing volunteers in various roles and services in the Trust, including (depending on dates) baby clinics, clinical administration, community mental health allotment, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) dance workshops.
- Shadowing volunteer coordinators in the volunteer service and Well Together.
- Attending team meetings.
- Attending charity events, depending on dates.
- Researching potential fundraising activities.
- Gain an insight into volunteer coordination and community development.
- Develop an understanding of the impact of volunteering for the volunteers, staff and service users.
- Be introduced to the variety of local community and mental health services, including childrens’ public health and social prescribing.
- Learn about charity governance and fundraising.
Additional information for the work experience learner
You will spend time with three teams within volunteering and the Trust charity – please see below:
Well Together – Provides a range of interesting, sociable, health-led activities delivered by dedicated activity volunteers. Our activities are free and run across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, in wheelchair-accessible venues. There are many groups available, including crafting, peer support and walking, and there is no limit to how many of these individuals can join.
Volunteer service – Coordinates and champions volunteers doing a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical roles across the Care Trust’s services that enhance care, support staff and improve patient outcomes.
Better Lives charity – Enhances the care the Trust provides, supporting initiatives that improve the lives of patients, service users, carers, volunteers and staff, which cannot be funded through core NHS budgets
Location: All three teams are based at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust headquarters, New Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire BD18 3LD, but activities take place across the district.
Hours of placement: Monday to Friday, 9.00am-4.00pm
Uniform: Polo top will be provided. Work experience learners must wear smart dark trousers (no jeans) and smart flat shoes (no trainers or open toe sandals).
- Participating in volunteer-led activity groups in community venues (Well
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Learning opportunities/objectives
- Support some of the administrative duties for the centre for clinical education
and professional development. - Support the welcome and sign in of those attending training.
- Supporting training session set up: rooms, resources, refreshments
- Shadow team educators when they are delivering training sessions to nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy students in training, our support staff, registered nurses and allied health profession staff.
- Help to collate the evaluations of the training sessions.
Additional information for the work experience learner
The centre for clinical education and professional development has a training team of 19 staff. We have mix of project manager, administrator and a range of educator roles who have backgrounds in either mental health, adult nursing, childrens services, learning disabilities or the allied health professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy or speech and language therapy). We offer training to a range of clinical roles and also to students who are at university studying to become nursing associates, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists or speech and language therapists.
We are a very welcoming team and would hope to offer you a fun and interesting week with opportunities to learn more around organisational skills, effective communication, prioritising tasks, working on your own initiative and team working.
Your start time will be 9.00am each day with a break mid-morning and lunchtime. Please bring your lunch with you as there are no local shops nearby. There is access to water via a cold water cooler and a fridge/microwave are available for your food.
Location: Daisy Hill House (floor 1), Lynfield Mount Hospital, Heights Lane, Bradford BD9 6DP.
Hours of placement: 9.00am – 3.00pm. Monday to Friday
Uniform: You will be required to wear your Care Trust work experience polo top which will be loaned to you, smart trousers and shoes (ie. those you may use for school). No jeans or trainers please.
- Support some of the administrative duties for the centre for clinical education