Year 11 Work Experience

Baswich Ender

A few posts under my belt
My daughter has got to organise a weeks work experience for the end of November. She would very much like to do it in the medical area. Places such as a GP's surgery, hospital etc. If.anyone has any ideas contacts or leads, I would appreciate your help.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
My daughter has got to organise a weeks work experience for the end of November. She would very much like to do it in the medical area. Places such as a GP's surgery, hospital etc. If.anyone has any ideas contacts or leads, I would appreciate your help.
How old is she?? You normally have to be 18 to work on a ward
 

#It'sNotMeIt'sYou

A few posts under my belt
have they changed the rules?? I was def 16/17 when i did work experience on shugborough ward- def under 18 as i finished college at 17.
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Year 11 probably 15/16

Children are children until 18

However

Rude stuff - 16

Snapping rude stuff - 18

Marriage - 16

Armed Services - 16

Drive - 17

Armed Services Video Games - 18

Tattoo ( no exceptions ) - 18

Adoption - 21

Northern Soul - 47
 
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Carole

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My daughter has got to organise a weeks work experience for the end of November. She would very much like to do it in the medical area. Places such as a GP's surgery, hospital etc. If.anyone has any ideas contacts or leads, I would appreciate your help.

Not that I have much experience in this but I think that unless you know someone personally in the medical profession then I think that your daughter is going to have to do it the long way round.

Write a letter and photocopy it a hundred times and send it to every GP in the area.

She could go in and try and wangle a face to face with the GP.
If she shows enough nous and personality then hopefully she will get a foot in the door.

Most employers like to see people using a bit of initiative.
 
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staffordjas

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Good luck in finding something suitable!

My son had a hell of a job getting a work experience placement. Most places said it would cost them too much to take out insurance etc. Others had contracts with Stafford College to give the placements to them .
In the end I got him placements in Barnfields school ,(because the teachers knew both him and through me working there) and the Nelson Library in Staffordshire Uni (which has now gone, so no point asking them for a reference..). The Uni library had a website where you could apply, the same as the NHS . But If my memory is correct, you needed to be 18 or over to get a placement in the NHS at that time.

Then came the problem of finding voluntary community work when he started 6th form...same thing again, it would cost them too much for insurance etc etc

Ended up doing a few hours in the local playgroup, again because he went there pre-school and I knew the boss!

I think if schools require students to find work placements, they should at least have a list of firms willing to take them on .
 

Withnail

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Floss

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I understand it's not that easy finding a work experience place in the medical sector I recently spoke with someone at st George's about something similar, there is a form to complete and you would need a CRB and only then you would be on a waiting list and not necessarily chosen to be interviewed.
 

staffordjas

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Just to add..... My son had to find a work experience place for the November, and then again later in the school year. (Must have been June time, as he got a placement as teacher helper in Barnfields and they were practising for Sports Day .) The second one , there was only him and about 3 other people out of the whole year that bothered to find anywhere. The rest , who said they couldn't find anything , got to get the week off school. So...lots of cussing when I had to drag him out of bed each day to go to something he needn't have done after all , and the teachers couldn't care less that most of their pupils didn't arrange anything that time .:roll:
 
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Carole

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Do you wonder why you bother sometimes?

@Baswich Ender came on here to ask a question.

This person has been a member of the forum since October 2013 and has left about 9 posts.

Then Baswich Ender comes on to get help and our lovely forumites take a few minutes out of their day to reply.

Baswich Ender was on the forum today at 7.06 but didnt bother to reply, acknowledge or thank those that had replied.
 
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