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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.
Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV. Find out more: Our approach to R&D
What is Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance?
All GSK medicines undergo rigorous testing for safety/effectiveness through clinical trials before reaching the market. However, clinical trials study medicines in a relatively small number of specific individuals, over a short time-period. Some undesirable/unexpected side effects only emerge once medicines are used by a more diverse population and/or over a longer time-period. Within Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance (aka Global Safety), our role is to ensure that the desired effects (or 'benefits') of our medicines outweigh undesired effects (or 'risks') – named ‘benefit-risk assessment’ – during clinical trials and post-marketing. The process and science of monitoring the safety of medicines and taking action to reduce risks whilst increasing benefits of medicines, is what we do.
This is an office-based opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the activities that we use to fulfil our purpose and grasp how we fit into the wider pharmaceutical industry. Our team cover a range of products from HIV and Neurology to Anti-Infective and Respiratory treatments. You will learn from industry experts on how we collect, analyse and act on information to learn about, and communicate, the safety profile of our products to doctors and patients across the globe.
This is a chance to gain technical and business skills, whilst exploring your interest in Safety and building a strong network at a leading pharmaceutical company. If you are excited by the prospect of gaining experience in a role that is close to, and makes a significant impact on, patient’s lives, then look no further.
Who are we looking for?
A student who can work well within a team and independently, with appropriate time management, flexibility, and attention to detail. As well as being computer literate in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, we are seeking students who can bring further technological and innovative thinking to the team. You must be reliable, enthusiastic, proactive, and self-motivated with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What do we offer you?
- A salary of £23,400 plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs.
- On-the-job experience, training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee
- Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students
