Work experience available at Oxfordshire County Council
OCC offers a wide variety of work experience options. Please note that work experience is unpaid at Oxfordshire County Council.
Service-specific work experience
The council regularly receives requests for work experience placements from individuals, their parents or carers, or from their school directly. Should you be interested in work experience with a certain department, please send your inquiry specifying your preferred dates to earlycareers@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Please be aware that the respective service processes these queries, and not all placement requests might be accommodated.
Please note that Children's Services, Adult Services, and Legal Services cannot accept ad hoc requests due to the nature of their work.
Local government work experience weeks
A new 'Local Government' work experience programme for 14-18-year-olds in Oxfordshire has been introduced. It is scheduled for three different weeks within the academic year. This week-long initiative will provide one-day placements across different council services throughout the week, aiming to give students insights into various job types available at the council.
Potential placement service areas include:
- Change and Engagement
- Customer Service
- Environment
- Finance
- FM
- HR Data
- Internal Comms
- IT
- Museums
- Policy
- Property
- Public Health
- Tree Services
2025/26 dates
- 2-6 March 2026
- 27 April - 1 May 2026
- 27 April - 1 May 2026
Applicants will need to register their interest
Since there are limited spots available, be sure to explain your interest in this work experience and the reasons you've chosen these specific service areas.
- Complete the form to register your interest in our work experience programme and select your preferred dates.
- You will be contacted approximately two months before placements begin and invited to complete a full application process.
- Candidates will then be selected based on this application.
If you have any questions or encounter any issues, please email EarlyCareers@Oxfordshire.gov.uk.