Graduate Trainee Job Description

Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity and helps build a stronger society. Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK, and health and care services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

The Health Foundation is an independent charitable organisation with a mission to build a healthier UK. We work to achieve this by generating high quality research and analysis; developing practical solutions to the biggest problems in health and health services; engaging, convening and building coalitions to build understanding, inform debate and drive action; and developing the long-term capability needed to transform health and care.

As postholder you will embed our Values and behaviours and support our commitment to Equity, diversity, and inclusion. We expect everyone who works with us to be committed to our values and to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. Our values are impact, evidence, integrity, and collaboration. We are committed to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation, building a culture that reflects the communities we serve.We will give you the training and support you need to get involved in the day-to-day delivery of our work and support longer-term projects. We will also aim to support you with any specialist skills or areas that you want to develop.

As a Graduate Trainee, the responsibilities you will undertake will increase as the programme progresses. By the end of the programme, you will have gained enough experience and exposure to take on a substantive role with the necessary skills to develop a career within the health and care sector, and wider charity and not for profit sectors.

As a Graduate Trainee, you will gain wide-ranging experience across the Health Foundation to obtain a thorough grounding in a respected think tank in the health and care charity sector.

You will undertake project work as well as operational responsibilities.

• Lead on one or more projects, aligning with your specific areas of interest and/or experience.
• Collaborative with colleagues as well as external stakeholders where relevant.

Tasks could include:

• Undertaking research, analysing policy documents.
• Event management, supporting the production and promotion of a range of Health Foundation content, supporting the design and delivery of workshops, tracking engagement with internal and/or external initiatives
• Project management.
• Supporting the drafting and publication process of written work. Outputs could include information and content for internal colleagues and/or external stakeholders, such as reports, policy briefings, blogs, and web content.
• Participate actively in events, workshops and regular team meetings, sharing learning with internal colleagues.

As with all employees within the Foundation, as a postholder you will be expected to contribute to corporate activities and initiatives, such as staff meetings, cross-Foundation leadership and development programmes and other corporate projects as necessary. You will also be expected to play a role in supporting the development of your team to enable continuous improvement and effectiveness.

As we do not provide visa sponsorship, candidates need to have the right to work in the UK at the time of appointment.