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Work Experience and Healthcare Careers Support

At Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, we’re proud to offer work experience placements, providing unique opportunities for mentees to gain insight into community healthcare professions in the NHS. We want to support young people and adult learners to explore career choices in healthcare and help build the knowledge and skill sets of our future NHS workforce. 

Placements are provided on a first-come, first-serve basis and must be applied for using our application form below. You should tell us why you are applying and if you are interested in a particular healthcare profession or role so that we can ensure we match you with the correct team. We have lots of teams offering spaces within our community trust, examples include:

  • Dentistry
  • Nursing (rehabilitation wards)
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Orthoptics
  • Care Homes
  • Dietetics
  • Business Support
  • Quality Improvement

You can also find out more about these roles and more using the NHS A-Z of Careers and Healthcare Careers websites.  A group line-up of clinical CLCH staff

After an incredible success last year, Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is pleased to announce it will be hosting a Summer School for young people to experience life as an Allied Health Professional (AHP).

Are you 16-18 years old and curious about a career in healthcare? This is your chance to step into the world of Allied Health Professionals! There are fourteen Allied Health Professions and within CLCH we have seven AHP groups caring for our local communities.

If you are interested in exploring the role of AHPs and how to make a positive difference to people’s lives, please consider joining the CLCH AHP Summer School where we can offer you experience in:

  • Dietetics
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Orthoptics
  • Paramedics
  • Physiotherapy
  • Podiatry
  • Speech and Language Therapy

Visit NHS Careers website to explore more about the roles. 

Dates and applications 

The dates for AHP Summer School are: Monday 28 July to Friday 8 August 2025 (inclusive)

Applications for summer 2025 have now closed as our deadline has passed.

If you have applied for the programme, click to download a provisional guide of the two-week programme scheduled for July/August 2025.

Hear from our CLCH Summer School 2024 graduates below:

Learn more about the Allied Health Professions below:

Anyone aged 16+ can apply for work experience with us. To be eligible for a placement, mentees must be living, or studying, in the boroughs in which CLCH services are delivered (as pictured below). This criteria ensures we are playing an active role in widening access to employment for the communities we support. We use widening access questions in our application form to ensure we are providing equal opportunities to those facing barriers to employment and training.

Map of CLCH services provided across 11 London Boroughs and Hertfordshire

Most of our applicants are young people who are seeking work experience to shadow professionals and get a feel for the working world as part of their development at school or college. We also welcome people who are further into their education or career journeys and are curious about a future career in the NHS.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do before this work experience but now I’ve become so sure of it, that’s how helpful it was!” -  Sara, Allied Health Professional placement, Inner North West.

How to apply

To apply, you must complete our application form. Successful applicants will be invited for a short online chat with our team.

Applications are now closed, please check back soon to see when applications reopen.

If you have any questions, you can get in touch with us at: clcht.workexperience@nhs.net