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Where to find part time work & work
experience during your studies
This handout contains the following sections: 1. General part – time work & work experience
placements, 2. Recruitment Agencies, 3. Health service & care work placements
1. General part time work & work experience placements
JobShop Vacancy Search - For a range of part-time opportunities. Provided by the Careers Group, University of
London. www.careers.lon.ac.uk
Forum3 – Job site for charity and not for profit sector – Paid Temporary and voluntary positions are available.
www.forum3.co.uk
Getting into International Development – micro site from the Careers Group. Jobs section has part time and
voluntary opportunities. www.careers.lon.ac.uk/development
LondonCareers.net - Part time jobs section www.londoncareers.net/industry/part-time-jobs.html
Employment4students -Student Jobs within London www.e4s.co.uk/jobs/london.htm
Part Time Jobs Network www.parttimejobsnet.co.uk
2. Recruitment Agencies (Science, Health Care, Charities and International
Development)
May be able to provide temporary and / or part time work for those with particular skills or experience. For information
on how to use Agencies, and for info on agencies outside Science and health care, pick up the ‘Recruitment
Agencies’ booklet from the Careers Service on the 4th floor of the ULU building, Malet Street.
Charities and NGO’s
Charity Action Recruitment www.c-a-r.org.uk/main/SiteHome.aspx
- The only not for profit sector specialist recruitment agency that is itself owned by a charity
www.charitypeople.co.uk/ - working with NGOs, charities, arts, health, education, public sector and social care
organisations.
www.charityconnections.com - voluntary recruitment specialists for the charity, voluntary, UK and overseas not-forprofit sector. National and international services include executive appointments, temporary assignments, contract,
interim and permanent recruitment.
CF Appointments www.cfappointments.com
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CR Search & Selection www.crsearch.co.uk
Harris Hill www.harrishill.co.uk
Eden Brown www.edenbrown.com
Kage Partnership www.kagep.com
ProspectUS www.prospect-us.co.uk
TPP www.tpp.co.uk
Health & Public Sector & Science
Agency Central: List of Health & Social Care agencies by skillset:
www.agencycentral.co.uk/agencysearch/health/skills/skillsearch.htm
eMedCareers www.emedcareers.co.uk Biotechnology jobs, Pharmaceutical jobs, or jobs in the Healthcare industry.
www.industryrecruit.co.uk/Health/
www.lifeline-personnel.com - provide top quality Temporary and Permanent Secretarial, Administrative and Clerical
Staffing Solutions to a range of organisations including those in the public, healthcare and charities sectors.
www.publicsectorcareers.org/health-jobs.html
Reed – See their Health Section. http://www.reed.co.uk/health
Select Appointments. Recruit medical secretarial and administration staff for both permanent and temporary positions
http://www.select.co.uk/Job_Seekers/
SRG www.srg.co.uk From scientific recruitment to outsourced clinical trials and data management - specialist service to
customers within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and general science based sectors. Services extend to
clinical recruitment, scientific outsourcing and clinical outsourcing
Lab Support www.labsupport.co.uk Place science professionals on contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire
placements.
3. Health Service Placements
The NHS Careers website is www.nhscareers.nhs.uk. This gives in-depth profiles of the full spectrum of jobs within the
health service. Additionally, the NHS has a central job listing at www.jobs.nhs.uk.
For placements it will be necessary to contact your local trust directly, as the person or department responsible for work
experience placements (if these are offered) varies from trust to trust.
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Contact details for London hospitals, and other NHS services, can be found at NHS London, http://www.london.nhs.uk/
– some offer placements and take volunteers, whilst others only have places for volunteers.
For NHS Trusts outside of London use the search facilities here www.nhs.uk/England/Hospitals/Default.cmsx.
Most trusts will have more than one hospital site – for example the UCL Hospitals Trust manages 7 hospitals, as well as
other outreach services at other sites. If you call their main switchboard and ask who deals with student placements you
should be put through to the right department – most hospitals have a voluntary services unit, which would be a good
place to begin.
The following London Hospital Trusts have, or have recently offered, placements in their hospitals. To be
eligible for placements in some hospitals, you must be resident in the local borough.
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Barts and the London
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals
Bromley Hospitals
Hammersmith Hospitals
Hommerton University Hospital
The Hillingdon Hospital
King’s College Hospital
Kingston Hospital
The Lewisham Hospital
Newham University Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Royal Free Hampstead
St George’s Healthcare
St Mary’s
University College London Hospitals
West Middlesex University Hospital
London Mental Health Trusts
Other opportunities may be available at Mental Health Trusts. Find details of Trusts and their hospitals by using the
following site – use the listing or map to locate those in London www.nhs.uk/England/AuthoritiesTrusts/MentalHealth/
Care Homes, hospices and other welfare services
 You can locate care homes using the Commission for Social Care Inspectorate’s online directory at
http://www.csci.org.uk/
 You should be able to find details of other local social care or welfare services from your local authority website (see
www.direct.gov.uk for details)
 For charity-run services, try searching the Guidestar charity database at www.guidestar.org.uk.
 Hospice Information provides a directory of all hospices in the UK at http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/ . St
Christopher’s Hospice in South London accepts volunteers (www.stchristophers.org.uk)