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Application Form - Career Counsellor nominations only

Application Deadline: 5pm, Friday 28 March 2025

WEHI's Secondary School Work Experience Program provides year 10 students from across Victoria with an opportunity to explore the career of a scientist in biomedical research.

Due to high demand of WEHI's Secondary School Work Experience Program, we are moving to a nomination-based application process. School Careers Counsellors are to nominate only one student from their school, and submit an application on the student's behalf. Students must be 15 years of age at time of placement. Students are not to submit their own application in this form; all applications must come from Career Counsellors directly.

Please note: school’s that are located in Regional or Rural Victoria will be allowed to submit up to 3 students to represent their school. This is to ensure that we provide opportunities for students are outside of Metropolitan Melbourne, and likely have a reduced ability to participate in medical research work experience in their home town. Please fill in a new form per student. To do this, you’ll need to open the link in an incognito / private browser after each submission.

The students accepted for the program are expected to attend the full week of work experience, approximately 9am-4pm each day for the 5 days for either the June or September cohorts.

Intake 1: 16 - 20 June 2025
Intake 2: 15 - 19 September 2025

Only applications submitted in its entirety will be considered. Please ensure you do not exit the window until you select the 'Submit Application' box.

WEHI aims to provide educational opportunities to a diverse range of students.

Any information collected in this form is for the use of the WEHI Program application process only and will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file, and managed as sensitive information in accordance with our privacy policy.

You can find out more about WEHI's Secondary School Work Experience Program on our website here. There is information available for both school Careers Counsellors and Students.

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* 1. Your Contact Information (Career Counsellor)

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* 2. Nominated student's First Name

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* 3. Nominated student's Surname

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* 4. Nominated student's email address
(Email will be our main method of contacting your student, so please ensure the email address is correct)

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* 5. Nominated student's phone number

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* 6. My student is available to attend the Secondary School Work Experience Program week/s:
(Select either or both weeks. Your preference in week will be taken into consideration but can not be guaranteed)

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* 7. My student will be 15 years or over by the Monday of the Program week and understand they understand that they will be expected to attend for the full week.
We are not able to accept students under the age of 15 for work experience.

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* 8. Your School Details

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* 9. Secondary School Location:

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* 10. Secondary School category:

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* 11. Secondary School Region

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* 12. Scientific Interests: Please select up to 3 scientific divisions your student is interested in:
(You do not need to already have knowledge in any of these fields; these answers will help us identify suitable laboratories to place students in. Placement in a preferred lab is dependent on availability)

WEHI’s Secondary School Work Experience Program aims to provide educational opportunities to students with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. The following 3 questions are optional but may be taken into consideration and used to personalise your student's experience with WEHI.
This information will not be shared with the student's parent/guardian and if you choose not to answer these questions it will not affect your student's application being assessed.

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* 13. What gender do you identify as:

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* 14. Do you identify as?

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* 15. Is there anything else about your student's background, access needs, or personal circumstances that you wish to share that may assist should your student be selected?
Optional, 200 words max.

Ready to submit your nominated student's work experience application?

Please check that your email address and your nominated student's email address is correct and you are happy with all your answers above. Then proceed with 'Submit Application' prior to closing the window.

You will know your application has been successfully submitted when you see the following message pop up "Thank you for taking this survey."

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