Sian Lomax was unemployed for 18 months before gaining the Informatics Assistant role at NHS Informatics. She started on 22nd February.“Getting this opportunity was a great way for me to gain more work experience and learn another line of work. I was feeling very excited to be starting a new challenge and was very eager to get started as soon as I could.”
“My job role as an Informatics Assistant is to input data and log public comments on a database to analyse and create reports from. I am currently working with my line manager to create a scorecard for GP practices, this will involve a lot of work with Microsoft Excel which is a program I enjoy using.”
“Everyone I work with is fantastic; I‘ve had no problems talking to my line manager about anything. Everyone is still as friendly as when I first arrived, no day is ever dull! The employees here have been so helpful and given me so much advice which helped me settle in well.”
If you could recommend this scheme to other unemployed people, what would you say to them? “Definitely look into it if you've been unemployed for a while it helps you to get the experience and I found it makes you feel like you're doing something useful. Even once you have a placement the help doesn't stop and all the help provided is relevant to everyone.”
