Some year 10 students were very fortunate to be able to complete their work experience before the Lockdown. However, students who were due to take part in their work experience at the end of March were less fortunate.

However, many companies have now created some virtual work experience videos to help students to be able to play some part in this. Please see the links below to take part in a virtual work experience. Please see below some links to a virtual work experience.

Virtual Work Experience Opportunities

New Virtual Work Experience Opportunities Recruiting Now:

Build Yourself with Wates Insight Day

  • Dates: 6th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in the construction industry.
  • Application Deadline: 6th March 2021

British Airways Virtual Insight Day - Sustainability Workshop

  • Dates: 7th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds keen to find out more about a career in the airline industry.
  • Application Deadline: 15th March 2021

STEM Challenge VWEX with Johnson Matthey

  • Dates: 6th - 8th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds keen to find out more about a career in sustainable technology.
  • Application Deadline: 12th March 2021

Green jobs in the construction industry - Graham Construction

  • Dates: 8th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in a career in the construction industry.
  • Application Deadline: 19th March 2021

Keeping Nottingham Green through sustainable travel

  • Dates: 14th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 15 – 19 year olds considering a career in government.
  • Application Deadline: 7th April 2021

Insight Day for Careers in Music – British Army

  • Dates: 14th April 2021(10am -12am)
  • Eligibility: 15 – 19 year olds interested in interested in a vocation with music performance at its heart.
  • Application Deadline: 14th March 2021

Sustainability and achieving Net-Zero by 2030 - SSE

  • Dates: 6th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds keen to learn more about the energy industry.
  • Application Deadline: 6th March 2021

She Is Sustainable - Insight Day

  • Dates: 22nd April 2021 (10:00am – 2:30pm)
  • Eligibility: 15 – 19 year olds interested in learning about sustainability.
  • Application Deadline: 25th March 2021

App in a Day` Insight Day – Anglian Water

  • Dates: 6th April 2021
  • Eligibility: 16 – 19 year olds interested in a career in information technology.
  • Application Deadline: 10th March 2021

Please encourage your students to apply as soon as possible to have the best chance of success.

For a full list of placements - sign in here to search and apply.

Green Skill Week Virtual Work Experience Opportunities:

Anglian Water ‘App in a Day’ Insight Day

  • Date: 7 April 2021.
  • Eligibility: Year 10 students interested in a career in creative design, IT and innovation.
  • Application Deadline: 8 March 2021

Anglian Water ‘App in a Day’ Insight Day

  • Date: 9 April 2021.
  • Eligibility: Year 12 students interested in a career in creative design, IT and innovation.
  • Application Deadline: 10 March 2021

Be Part of a Smart Future - Energy Industry Insight Day

  • Date: 7 April 2021.
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds based in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex.
  • Application Deadline: 8 March 2021

Sustainability Challenge Insight Day - Fusion

  • Dates: 7 April 2021.
  • Eligibility: 14 -19 year olds in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Coventry and Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire will be prioritised.
  • Application Deadline: 3 March 2021

Engineering Green Skills Insight Day - Sir Robert McAlpine

  • Date: 9 April 2021
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in sustainability and the engineering sector.
  • Application Deadline: 12 March 2021

Architecture + Design Work Placement – Carmody Groarke

  • Dates: 12 – 16 April 2021
  • Eligibility: 16 -19 year olds who are keen to gain insight into architecture and design.
  • Application Deadline: 12March 2021

Green Careers in the Build Environment – Morgan Sindall

  • Dates: 6 – 9 April 2021, 9.30am – 5pm.
  • Eligibility: 16 – 19 year olds interested in a career in environmentally friendly engineering.
  • Application Deadline: 15March 2021

Build Yourself with Wates – Sustainability Insight Day

  • Date: 6 April 2021, 10am – 3pm.
  • Eligibility: 16 – 19 year olds interested in a career in engineering and sustainability.
  • Application Deadline: 6March 2021

Santander and sustainability

  • Date: 8 April 2021, 10am – 3pm.
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in financial inclusion and the environment.
  • Application Deadline: 8March 2021

Being Green Insight Day – Thames Water

  • Date: 7 April 2021, 10am – 1pm.
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in financial inclusion and the environment.
  • Application Deadline: 7March 2021

Sustainability and achieving Net-Zero by 2030 with SSE

  • Date: 6 April 2021.
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in sustainability and city planning.
  • Application Deadline: 6March 2021

Green Skills with GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway)

  • Date: 7 April 2021, 10am – 1pm.
  • Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds interested in climate change and the railway industry.
  • Application Deadline: 6March 2021

Virtual Work Experience – Year 9+:

With half term on the horizon we wanted to remind you, and your students, about our award winning virtual work experience programme. The BSMS Virtual Work Experience is still live and freely available for any students hoping to access 'real world' clinical experience. This may be of particular interest to your students in the current climate and is a fantastic online resource which explores some of the key values attributed to being an NHS doctor in a variety of specialities. 

Using patient case studies, interactive quizzes and activities, the platform encourages students to carefully consider the role of doctor whilst reflecting on their own strengths and weaknesses. We would be extremely grateful if you could circulate the link below to your students. The course is completely free of charge and accessible to all, although those in Year 9 or above may benefit the most.

 

Link: https://bsmsoutreach.thinkific.com/courses/VWE.

The resource is extremely versatile and thus has plenty of scope for amendments and/or module creation, if you have any feedback please email Charlotte (c.smyrk@bsms.ac.uk).

In addition, the Medical Schools Council (MSC) have also produced some guidance on work experience during the Coivd-19 pandemic, which may be of interest.

March Monthly Lecture – Year 7+:

For our March lecture we'll be joined by BSMS Alumna, Dr Tamara Mulenga. Tamara's talk will explore the concept of global health and ask the very topical and important question of 'why should we all work together?'

All talks in the Monthly Lecture Series are designed for secondary school/college students and provide the unique opportunity for students to learn more about different aspects of medicine, career pathways, and how to get into medicine.

Dr Tamara Mulenga's lecture will be taking place on Wednesday 3rd March using Zoom video conferencing between 18:30 - 19:30. Tickets are now live on our events page. As with all talks in the series the event is free, however tickets must be booked in advance and can be done so here. I have attached a flyer too if you would like to advertise this on your school/college's channels.

 

Please encourage your students to apply as soon as possible to have the best chance of success. Opportunities may close early if many applications are received. 
 
For a full list of placements - sign in here to search and apply. 
 
You can send more opportunities directly to the students you think would benefit the most through our portal by signing in here, or by using our template email (below my signature) to forward the opportunities to students with instructions on how to apply. 

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS)- Work Experience - Year 9 Upwards:

The BSMS Outreach team and former BSMS student (and ex-BrightMedder!) Jake Bush have worked together to create a fantastic online work experience resource. Predominately designed for those who otherwise wouldn’t have access to “real-world” clinical work experience, this may be of particular interest to your students in the current climate.

The learning content explores some of the key values attributed to being an NHS doctor in a variety of specialities. Using patient case studies, interactive quizzes and activities, the platform encourages students to carefully consider the role of doctor whilst reflecting on their own strengths and weaknesses. The course is completely free of charge and accessible to all, although those in Year 9 or above may benefit the most.

https://bsmsoutreach.thinkific.com/courses/VWE

My Week of Work

The Careers and Enterprise Company, in collaboration with Oak National Academy and Learn Live, are launching ‘My Week of Work’ from Monday June 8th. It is an interactive week of careers based learning and bank of resources.

The programme is designed to help to offer an alternative to work experience that Year 10 students may be currently missing out on during the summer term with a dedicated week of 20 lessons, from Oak National Academy, and resources and career videos, from Learn Live. It may also be suitable for Year 9 students.

These lessons aim to support students to gain insight into the world of work and have set tasks to be completed. A free resource, all students need to do is access the lessons directly from the Oak National Academy platform at www.thenational.academy with no registration required. The tasks can be done at home or in school and there is a dedicated guide here. If you are unable to do this on the week of June 8th the lessons will be available online after.