Students can serve Christ by serving the community, regularly through term-times. Taking just a few local examples:
Build relationship with disaffected teenagers in a local drop-in centre
Help lead CU meetings in a local secondary school
Support the elderly through a local live-at-home scheme
Serve tea and chat with families at a nearby prison.
Informal placements
This is an extra-curricular, non credit-bearing placement which you enter into both to get experience in a particular area AND to serve God.
You have access to a huge range of placement organisations and supervisors who generously invest in your spiritual and gift formation: Placement Directory
We partner with you, by offering you the opportunity to maximise the impact of this placement. A placement ‘paper trail’ will provide evidence of what you have done and written testimonial from those who have overseen your endeavours. Just contact Vocational Services if you want to know more.
Students must
Mark as done
Part-time employment
During your time at LST you may have part-time employment – either in the vacations or through term-times. (International students who study a full-time undergraduate or postgraduate degree course are allowed to work part-time during term for up to 20 hours a week and full-time during the holidays. Currently, there are no working restrictions for students from the European Union). More information here. Part-time work is an invaluable work experience, where you will be accruing transferable skills which will prepare you for the workplace. Your Manager can provide you with testimonial to your work ethic, your reliability, your integrity, your problem-solving skills, your commitment and hard work.
We encourage you to create an employability folder, capture their feedback, and add it to this folder. You could use the Placement Testimonial form to do so.
Please maximise the power of these work experiences for your future vocation by building the evidence into your portfolio, which will then be easily accessed when you come to write a job application.
Work Experience can be gained in various ways.