Early careers

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We provide access to a wide range of structured development schemes from internships and placements to apprenticeships, graduate schemes and contract work.

Early in your career?

We can inspire and guide you into the right career pathway.

Our aim is to fulfil each individual’s potential, offering a variety of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, and access to coaching and mentoring schemes.

If you're keen to work for the NHS but unsure of your pathway, we can support you to discover and unlock a career that suits you. A career that makes the most of your skills and strengths, while providing you with plenty of opportunities for growth.

Graduate blog: Hermione's experience

Hermione Dunaway, first-year Graduate Management Trainee in Organisational Development, will tell you a little more about her experience on the SCW graduate scheme so far. ...

Careers and recruitment fairs

We're attending careers and recruitment events over the coming months. Sign up, come along, and we'll see you there. ...

Already on a scheme? What's the next step?

Already on a scheme, and looking for placement opportunities? We're accredited to offer placement opportunities for those currently on schemes including the NHS Graduate Management Training scheme and...

Training and development

We aim to fulfil the potential of all our employees by offering a variety of on-the-job training, access to further qualifications and a well-recognised coaching and mentoring scheme. ...

Apprenticeships

In today's competitive job market, young people face a number of pressures, increasing competition for university places, rising tuition costs and often, the need for work experience in order to be co...

What we're looking for

We’re looking for innovative, resilient and collaborative people who’ll be more than a little help to us in achieving our vision. ...

Work placements

Looking for a fantastic way to gain insight into a career in the NHS? We welcome those seeking their first work experience, and placements here at SCW are short-term opportunities that can give you that vital experience.

Some NHS jobs are ‘clinical’, which means they are directly related to patients and their treatment. Some are ‘non-clinical’ i.e. administration, finance etc. It can be valuable to get non-clinical work experience here at SCW, even if you hope to end up in a clinical career. We're able to offer a rich diversity of experiences as we employ over 1,400 people who work with over 60 frontline NHS organisations.

Interested? For more information please get in touch with our HR support team.

Internships

We have long seen the value of paid-for internships, where you can gain vital insight into working for us during, or around, your studies for a fixed period of time.

Internships are advertised along with all vacancies at SCW via NHS Jobs. This gives opportunities for all to apply and to go through our values-based, fair and equal recruitment process. We've created a handy guide to applying, including our top tips.

Internships are paid at the entry point of each Agenda for Change pay band. Details can be found in the job description and person specification for each role.

Check out the current opportunities

Our impact

Through partnerships with NHS and non-NHS organisations, we continue to deliver against our stated purpose - supporting our customers to achieve the best possible outcomes for people, communities and ...

Graduate blogs

Looking to join our graduate scheme?

SCW runs a highly regarded and well-established graduate management scheme. This offers a unique opportunity for graduates to help transform the way health services work for patients and communities.

We asked six of our current first year graduates about their experiences on the graduate scheme so far.

Each grad gives their own personal insight into the application process, providing tips to potential applicants, as well as what their current role entails.