Graduate Programmes
The NHS offers a number of accelerated learning courses for those graduates who decide to pursue a clinical career later on, or who are looking for management training schemes to boost initial careers in healthcare.
If you share the commitment to providing a world-class healthcare service and have the determination and drive to meet challenges head-on, you will find success with the NHS.
Programmes available include:
- Accelerated programmes – allow graduates with an unrelated degree to undertake clinical knowledge and experience training in two years instead of the standard three or four. Courses are available in subjects such as nursing, radiography, dietetics, occupational therapy, orthoptics, osteopathy, paramedicine, physiotherapy, podiatry, prosthetics and speech and language therapy. For more information and to find courses, visit the NHS Career Planning tool.
- NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme – A fast track, supported programme preparing graduates for an exciting career as a senior manager in healthcare. The programme allows specialism in one of six areas: general management, finance, human resources, health informatics, policy and strategy or health analysis. For more information and application advice, visit the NHS Health Careers website.
- NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) – If you are a science or engineering graduate, the Scientist Training Programme allows you to train to work in a senior healthcare science role in one of the following areas: clinical bioinformatics, life sciences, physical science and biomedical engineering or physiological sciences. For more information and application advice, visit the NHS Health Careers website.
- Specialist Public Health training – Allowing you to train as a public health specialty registrar with or without a degree in medicine. You’ll focus on health at a population level, look at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reduce ill health and tackle health inequalities. For more information and advice, visit the NHS Health Careers website.
- Physician Associate training – Physician associates support doctors in the diagnosis and management of patients and usually work in settings such as primary care (GP surgeries), acute settings and emergency medicine settings. For more information and application advice, visit the NHS Health Careers website.
Although there are many graduate training schemes available, there are also many job roles in the NHS or Social Care where a degree in any subject will be useful.
Further information
To further research graduate careers that may suit you, take a look at the Prospects website where you can add your degree programme information and link it to potential careers in healthcare and in other sectors.
There are also further career research opportunities available in our (LINK)Explore Careers area or on the NHS Health Careers website.