NHS recruitment – Step into healthcare support worker role

Written by Lora Shephard on March 27, 2023. Posted in Careers, VI Form Careers.

NHS recruitment – Step into healthcare support worker role

HCSW careers webinar southeast England.

This online event through Microsoft Teams will give you the chance to hear form people working as healthcare support workers (HCSW) in various roles in the NHS across the southeast region of England. The event will explore how you can choose to work as a HCSW (care assistant/nursing assistant) in many different settings such as hospitals, out in the community, and visiting people’s homes. We will also give an overview of the different types of roles such as caring for patients that are acutely unwell, working in mental health services, supporting people that have learning disabilities, maternity services and working with babies, children or adults. HCSW is a fantastic job and it also has great career opportunities if that is something you wish to pursue, such as apprenticeships to become a registered nurse, ‘earn while you learn’ and get a university degree.

This event is suitable for school and college leavers, for military families and for anyone seeking a new career in the healthcare sector, even those that know they want to go to university as a medical student, paramedic, physiotherapist or nurse, coming and getting a year or so hands on experience as a HCSW will give you so much more knowledge and insight. At the end of the event there will be an email contact to all the NHS Trusts in the southeast region to support you with getting a HCSW job. To join the event on the day click on the link and register at Eventbrite. We look forward to you attending our event. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-into-healthcare-support-worker-role-nhs-careers-southeast-england-tickets-569966464037

NHS Easter Careers Challenge

Written by Lora Shephard on March 20, 2023. Posted in Careers.

NHS Easter Careers Challenge

Mountbatten Summer School

Written by Lora Shephard on March 14, 2023. Posted in Careers.

Mountbatten Summer School

Summer School booklet 2023

The closing date for applications is 30 March 2023. If you have any questions please contact the Careers Team.

Summer School Application Form 2023

IOW College & CECAMM Open Evenings

Written by Lora Shephard on February 10, 2023. Posted in Careers.

IOW College & CECAMM Open Evenings

The Isle of Wight College would like to invite year 10 and 11 students to book onto the next run of exciting engineering tasters taking place on Wednesday 8 March at CECAMM in Whippingham. This is also their next open evening (4.30pm – 6.30pm).

There will be two sessions of six subjects running, they last for one hour, students are welcome to book for two different tasters if they wish.

Tasters will be:

Hand-fitting: first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Electronics: first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Welding: first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Composites: first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Marine Engines: first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm
CAD (computer aided design): first session 4.30pm – 5.30pm / second session 5.30pm – 6.30pm

All links are available on this March CECAMM Engineering Tasters page

Success Beyond School – Careers Evening for Parents

Written by Lora Shephard on February 8, 2023. Posted in Careers, VI Form Careers.

Success Beyond School – Careers Evening for Parents

INVESTIN have announced the first events in their Success Beyond School series for 2023.

1 February 2023: Communicating With Confidence – how to develop children to become strong communicators.

15 March 2023: Engineer Your Future – how to help your child launch a career in Engineering.

To register your place on a course please visit the parents events section of the INVESTIN website, click here to go to this page.

STEM Workshop

Written by Lora Shephard on February 2, 2023. Posted in Careers, Carisbrooke College, News - CC.

STEM Workshop

Last Monday our Year 7 students attended Marine Engineering STEM workshops. These workshops are designed to inspire young people to consider a career in the Marine industry. Delivered by the Marine Society and Sea Cadets organisation, the workshops were hands-on from start to finish.

If you’re wondering what STEM stands for, it’s: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Students encountered all four aspects of STEM as they engaged in practical activities and experiments which taught them about buoyancy, displacement, density and Newton’s 3rd Law.

The Year 7’s enjoyed listening to Suzy, the Workshop Leader, as she explained Archimedes Principle whilst demonstrating the principle itself, showing how the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. Following this, in teams of three, students worked together to turn a small piece of card and tin foil into a ship of their own. Each team then filled their ship with marbles, one at a time, until their ship sank!

There were some great results but the winning team’s boat held an amazing 340g worth of marbles. Well done to our Year 7’s for being a credit to the school.

Isle of Wight College Open Day

Written by Lora Shephard on January 20, 2023. Posted in Careers.

Isle of Wight College Open Day

The Isle of Wight College will be hosting their first open day of 2023 on Saturday 28 January. This is a great opportunity for young people completing GCSEs in 2023 to explore what the Isle of Wight College has to offer.

Further information can be found here – www.iwcollege.ac.uk/events.

STEM Workshop held at Medina College

Written by Lora Shephard on January 19, 2023. Posted in Careers, Medina College, News - MC.

STEM Workshop held at Medina College

Buoyancy, density, mass, volume… just some of the keywords Year 7 students got to grips with during Marine Engineering STEM workshops this week. Designed to inspire young people to consider a career in the Marine industry and delivered by the Marine Society and Sea Cadets organisation, the workshops were hands-on from start to finish.

The workshop leader enchanted Year 7 with the story of Archimedes Principle whilst she demonstrated the principle itself, showing how the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. Following this, in teams of three, students worked together to turn a small piece of card and tin foil into a ship of their own. Each team then filled their ship with marbles, one at a time, until their ship sank! One student said “I really learnt a lot! The lady made it easy to understand things”

Virtual Work Experience programmes

Written by Lora Shephard on January 18, 2023. Posted in Careers, VI Form Careers.

Virtual Work Experience programmes

Springpod are offering free virtual work experience programmes in many different STEM, Healthcare and business fields.

Completion of each programme is rewarded with a certificate that students can put on their CV or personal statement.

View the available programmes here.

Apprenticeships with BP

Written by Lora Shephard on January 18, 2023. Posted in Careers, VI Form Careers.

Apprenticeships with BP

BP are on the hunt for new apprentices!

“If you’d like to be part of a better, brighter future, now’s the time to make your move and help us reimagine energy”.

To find out more about the apprenticeships currently available and to apply please click here.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2023