Flexible working
Pension contributions
Employee assistance programme

Policy Influencing Placement

Role Salary: This role is unpaid and forms part of your NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme Flexi placement
Role Location: Hybrid or remote, to be agreed with the Policy Manager
Role Hours: 35 hours per week
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Are you interested in influencing national level change to improve the lives of people living with Parkinson’s? Do you want to understand how a national charity can inform policy making? Do you want to build networks with decision makers?

 

About the Policy Influencing Placement

Parkinson’s UK’s policy influencing placement provides an opportunity for an NHS graduate management trainee to spend two months working in its ambitious policy team.

As part of the team, you will work to secure improvements to health and social security policies that impact on people affected by this devastating condition. This will include undertaking research and collating evidence to inform influencing activities, monitoring policy changes, and building relationships with policymakers and Parliamentarians.

 

Parkinson’s UK is looking for an NHS graduate management trainee keen to gain experience in: 

  • Policy analysis and influencing

  • Communicating evidence to a range of stakeholders

  • Collaborative working

  • Engaging people with lived experience

  • Working in the voluntary sector

  • Developing networks

 

Placement timeframes

The placement will run from November-December 2025. 

The placement will run on a full-time basis for two months. You’ll work 35 hours a week, with core hours of 10am-4pm. We will consider condensed working hours.  

This placement will be hybrid or remote, with any in person activities such as attending the Parkinson's UK office (50 Broadway, London, SW1H 0DB) to be agreed with the Policy Manager. Travel expenses will not be covered by the charity.

 

Eligibility requirements

This placement is open to Policy & Strategy and Health Analysis NHS graduate management trainees.

 

Interviews

Interviews will take place online on 17 or 18 July 2025.

 

Anyone can get Parkinson’s. It’s vital that the people who work for Parkinson’s UK are representative of our diverse community. We actively encourage people from all sections of the community to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

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Flexible working

25 days leave plus bank & public holidays

Pension contributions

Employee assistance programme

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