Global Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance Placement

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Global Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance Placement

Currently studying a degree in Life or Health sciences degree, or equivalent (e.g., Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, etc).

Other requirements: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.

If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected Start date: Sept 2025

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £27,000 plus a bonus.

Application Closing: 9th October 2024

Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly and the advert may close at any point.

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.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Data analysis and management
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)
• 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. 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 and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

The Role

Global Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance

Overview of the Department

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.

We are 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.  

Key Placement Activities

• 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 and capabilities within Safety as well as building a strong network at a leading pharmaceutical company.

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

1.      Eligibility Form

2.      World of GSK Online Assessment

3.      Written Assessment

4.      Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and also because it’s the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here.

Need help with your application?

Please email us at UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities.

For UK Intern roles (including Industrial Placements) you can either call us on 01582 692870, or send an email uk.InternRecruitment@gsk.com

For UK Apprentice and Graduate Programme roles (including Future Leaders Programme) you can either call us on 0203 862 2277, or send an email uk.EarlyTalentRecruitment@gsk.com

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

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About GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, itʼs also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together

How to apply

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Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.