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User Experience & Inclusive Design for Patient-Centric Communication Industrial Placement, UK 2026

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To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.) We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.

Roles Available in Location: Ware

Education required:
To apply for this placement, you must currently be studying an Undergraduate degree in User Experience (UX) Design or Interaction Design, Graphic Design or Communication Design, Product Design or Industrial Design, Human Factors Engineering or Ergonomics, Design Engineering or Innovation Design.

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:
September 2026

Duration:
1 year (approximately)

Salary:
A salary of £25,400 plus a bonus.

Workplace Arrangements:
Flexible working via performance with choice (office and home working may be available).

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

Internship Opportunity

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.

What do we offer you?

  • A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.
  • Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.
  • Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalise your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support.
  • Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.
  • Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance.
  • Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.
  • Access to IPUnite which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.
  • 2 volunteering days per year.

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 role description).

The Role Overview of the Department

The Inclusive Design team is a group within Packaging Development & Design, one of the sub-groups within Drug Product Development (DPD), R&D, based in Ware, UK. At GSK, one of our cultural pillars is to be ambitious for patients, and for the Inclusive Design team, the patient is at the heart of everything we do. Inclusive Design ensures that products and services are accessible and usable by as many people as possible, regardless of their abilities.

To meet our objective of ensuring that our patients, and the people who care for them, can successfully engage with and use our medicines, the Inclusive Design team is responsible for conducting patient engagement research and combining it with disease understanding to enrich a synthesis of the patient persona types, patient experience journey, and their capabilities. These findings can be leveraged by teams in medicine development to contribute to overall product design.

The Inclusive Design team also leads sustainability objectives to develop truly innovative new packaging and devices that help meet GSK's ambition to reduce our impact on the environment and lead to positive nature change and reduce climate impact.

Key Placement Learnings

  • Lead the development of visualisation tools to support communication of disease area insights e.g., patient journeys, patient personas.
  • Identify and implement digital / online design solutions that improve clarity, empathy, and usability of patient-facing content.
  • Develop skills in visual storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and inclusive design thinking.
  • Conduct and synthesize user research to generate empathetic design insights and inform content.
  • Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of design outputs, using feedback and data to iterate and improve communication materials and user experience.
  • Contribute to key design activities, such as workshops, co-creation sessions, and validation of patient-facing materials.
  • Develop skills, including visual design, inclusive design thinking and stakeholder communication.

Apply now!

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2026:

  1. Eligibility Form
  2. GSK Digital Assessment
  3. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.

We’re 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it’s the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.

For more information about GSK and our careers please visit our website 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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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.

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