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Employability

NHS Highland’s Employability and Widening Access Strategy was approved by the Board in March 2025.

Contact the Employability team:

email nhsh.employability@nhs.scot

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About the strategy

The Employability and Widening Access Strategy is about how we develop our workforce, and engage and develop the workforce of the future. It also highlights:

  • our role as an anchor organisation
  • how we work with our local communities and partners to develop plans to support key groups who may be facing barriers to employment
  • create pathways for them to enter into employment

We have ambitious plans around:

  • secondary school engagement across our Board area
  • the development of apprenticeship opportunities across our job families
  • developing widening access programmes to support those who may have struggled to access the labour market

Last updated: 6 May 2025

Next review date: 4 May 2026