Employability and Young People

The Workforce Employability Service offers specialist guidance and advice to all NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde services to support local delivery of our organisation’s workforce employability objectives. The overarching aim is to support development of an appropriately skilled workforce from a diverse background which will meet current and future service demands.

The Workforce Employability Service supports:

Development and implementation of a wide ranging strategy for employing young people and other under represented groups within the workforce in partnership with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde service managers
Comprehensive project management and delivery of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Modern Apprenticeship programme, in line with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde objectives, nationally set targets, workforce plans and service redesign
Promotion of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as an employer of choice by raising awareness of the broad range of jobs, apprenticeships and careers, and pathways into these, through a range of methods including: development of a new suite of on line careers resources, a revised model of schools work experience now refereed to Career Insights and schools engagement programme
Development of new pathways into employment for 16 to 24 year olds, in partnership with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde services and external stakeholders, with provision for under represented groups with specific barriers to employment
Ongoing development and management of the NHS Glasgow and Clyde Schools Careers Insight programmes.