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Latest News<br />
<strong>Aspire</strong> for the Future<br />
Birmingham Children’s Hospital will be holding a public NHS<br />
Careers Fair for young people, aged 14-25, who are under the care<br />
of the local authority and care leavers.<br />
The main aim of the event is to provide disadvantaged young<br />
people with employment and training opportunities, giving them<br />
the chance to network and discover where they may want to take<br />
their career.<br />
The event will see over 25 different organisations represented<br />
from a wide variety of sectors and will also include talks from<br />
the University of Birmingham, Disability Rights UK and a practical<br />
employment workshop from St Basils.<br />
Big Hoot<br />
We launched The Big Hoot in Birmingham last month and we’re<br />
pleased to announce the huge success of the campaign. In the<br />
first ten days, the owls were scanned an incredible 89,000 times<br />
(that’s one owl every 16 seconds) by the public who quickly got<br />
their claws into the project, downloading the App and taking<br />
on the Big Hoot trail.<br />
Some of our work experience students interviewed members<br />
of the public about the trail. You can watch the videos on our<br />
website.<br />
If you are an organisation who would like to support please<br />
contact us on 0121 333 8604.<br />
The event will take place on:<br />
Saturday 3 October, 11am-2pm at Birmingham Children’s<br />
Hospital, Education Centre.<br />
Thank you to all the organisations who are supporting this event.<br />
Work Experience Students - Alydia Scott and Gursonia Clair<br />
JUMP<br />
We are excited to announce the launch of our JUMP<br />
programme., JUMP stands for Junior Mentoring Programme.<br />
The JUMP programme will match one intern with an<br />
apprentice. The aim of the programme is to help develop the<br />
leadership skills of our Interns.<br />
We hope that this will also be a fun way of making new friends<br />
and building new relationships across the Trust. By providing<br />
our apprentices with a mentor we can ensure that they are<br />
integrated into the organisation more quickly and have access<br />
to a strong support network and able to JUMP up the career<br />
ladder quicker!<br />
We have exciting plans to develop the concept further<br />
and would love to hear from anyone that has any ideas or<br />
experience that may help us.<br />
Don’t forget we also have our own <strong>Aspire</strong> E-Mentoring<br />
programme and you can find more information on this at<br />
www.bchaspirementoring.com.<br />
Goodbye to our Pre-Interns<br />
This summer we ran our first ever Pre-Intern programme. This<br />
programme is a chance for students from the University of<br />
Birmingham to work on a particular project in a department<br />
within Birmingham Children’s Hospital over the summer.<br />
Departments hosting pre-interns this summer included the<br />
<strong>Aspire</strong> team, Patient Pathways, Neurosciences and Fundraising.<br />
The scheme has been a huge success and we would like to<br />
thank the departments for taking part, as well as the University<br />
of Birmingham for their partnership.<br />
This is what one of our pre-interns had to say about the scheme<br />
: “Fantastic opportunity that has given me a wonderful insight into<br />
the NHS and the public sector.“<br />
Next year we are looking to run the pre-internship scheme<br />
again, hopefully with even more placements available. If you<br />
are interested in getting involvedplease register your interest<br />
on our website. We wish our pre-interns good luck for the future<br />
and we hope to see then on our full internship scheme next<br />
year!<br />
September Edition