Over the last year or so we have taken 3 or 4 people on for work experience from various colleges and training companies. All the students have been very successful and have enjoyed their time at Healthcare Computing; most of the students have worked on the service side dealing with Service Calls - from logging them to going out onsite with an engineer and resolving them.  We complete a detailed training plan for each student. 

“After doing a number of weeks part time work experience with Healthcare Computing I found it gave me a useful insight into being an IT engineer for a company working with PCTs and health services.  I spent most of my time with another engineer going to different sites to fix a variety of issues from new PC installs, to printing errors, and software faults.  This really helped me to prepare for the sorts of issues I may face and also how an engineer works on a daily basis.  It also taught me things that I could use at home too. 

I was also offered to spend some time in the office to learn about the service support side of the company.  The staff were very helpful and pleasant and made me feel welcome.  This helped to understand both sides of the job – what the office-based staff deal with and how it relates to an engineer’s role.

In conclusion, I learnt a lot from the experience and it was time well spent.”

George Wyatt – Network Engineer

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your team for the way that you managed my son Joel’s work placement with your company. He came home each day full of both what he had achieved and had been doing, in the morning was looking forward to the tasks he was going  to be doing that day.

Having had work placements myself, I understand how difficult and time consuming it can be to keep them interested and motivated, but in this instance your team achieved this and gave him a sense of responsibility as well.

I would also like to thank the engineers, who took him to site and set real tasks and made him feel part of the service visit.

It is very rare today to hear of a company that seems to have self motivated, friendly, and helpful staff, your team made his placement enjoyable, challenging also gave him the impression that the working environment be an enjoyable place to be.

It is so important that business realizes that the young people of today are the future to successfully business in the future, and it is a great shame that many company’s do not show the attitude that your business has.”

Statement from Tim Rumble, father to Joel who completed work experience with us in 2009