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As most of you will know, on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme we spend two years rotating around the NHS and occasionally external organisations. As some of you may know, graduates are sometimes placed in arms-length bodies (ALBs) rather than trusts or CCGs. My first placement has been spent doing policy and strategy work in the Patient Safety team at NHS England & Improvement. I recently wrote an article for my Directorate newsletter summing up my time here, and thought I’d sh...

Intro Where has all the time gone?! The last time I blinked I was at the Welcome event in Leeds in September 2018 and now, as the title suggests, I am nearing the end of my first placement. When I joined my first placement I felt as excited as a kid on Christmas day waiting to open their presents and as I look back on what I have done over the course of the placement I have been spoilt. Thoughts about placement I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have been placed here as I’ve had the o...

When I discovered a flexi-placement that focussed solely on Women’s Health at DHSC I was immediately interested. My fascination in women’s health started at University when I led several debates discussing perceptions of women’s physical and mental health. It increased in my first placement when I worked closely with a Consultant Dermatologist who had special interest in women’s intimate health.Having worked here for five weeks now I am pleased to say that I think this is a very exciting time...

Hey! I’m Isi and I’m a 2018 intake on the HR stream. I studied Business and Management at University and came onto the graduate scheme after I graduated. Having now completed my first placement, I thought the perfect first blog would be giving a brief overview of my experience of how it went to give you guys a bit of an idea of what you may be involved with if, like me, you are on the HR stream. I started my placement in the Staff Engagement and Wellbeing Team. Here I undertook projects aroun...

Hi everyone,This is a very odd blog for me to write, as it is my first since I left the scheme. In my two years as a HR trainee I have done so much, and changed as both a person and a professional. I have led on employee relations investigations, and spoke at conferences. I have run meetings with Chief Executives in attendance and designed Trust wide employability schemes. Alongside this I have made more mistakes than I can count, and several that were major enough to keep me up at night. I h...