• Further develop opportunities to integrate Coaching into Team-Based Working
• Build on existing opportunities to develop blended and bite-size Coaching Awareness
and Coaching Skills development
• Build on existing opportunities to utilise Executive peer coaching for personal and
professional development.
NEXT STEPS
The Trust knows the positive impact work experience can have for students who are career
planning. Working in partnership with Work Inspiration, the Trust continues to promote Trust wide
work experience packages to schools and colleges within its geographical area and throughout the
whole of Northern Ireland. During 2019/2020, the Trust assisted pupils from 103 schools, including
Grammar and Secondary from the Integrated, Protestant and Catholic sectors.
With a Health and Care System under pressure and showing signs of strain, the Trust's ability to
facilitate much needed work experience placements has been compromised. In conjunction with this,
with reduction in funding, there has been a decline in the number of invitations to career events.
In response to these challenges, the Trust recognises that it must revolutionise its thinking to optimise
its provision to ensure students have a great experience and that we continue to attract young people
into careers within Health and Social Care.
Motivated to remove barriers that prevent students being able to avail of work experience
placements, a review of work experience placements was a necessity. A first stage of this review was
to find a more effective and efficient process to indemnity.
With the formation of a regional working group, HSCNI are now working with the Education Authority
and Education Providers (NI) to agree an over-arching approach to indemnity in order to ensure
equity of opportunity for students across the region.
School Outreach and Engagement
Facts & Figures
The withdrawal of funding for Business Education
Partnerships (BEPs) has had a dramatic impact
on arranged careers days for all schools in our
partnership areas seeing a reduction in events.
In 2019/2020, the Trust supported all careers
events by invitation, meeting and supporting 786
students (74% decrease against 2018/2019).
Notwithstanding the pressures alluded to above,
the Trust successfully facilitated 532 placements
(8% increase against 2018/2019) within
17 occupational areas.
The HSCNI Regional Work Experience Group will continue their work in relation to Indemnity
with being replaced by a Memorandum of Understanding and supporting documentation for
post-primary schools.
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