Dare more. Develop more. Deliver more with a Summer Internship at Nationwide
Our Internships are a great opportunity to gain work experience, develop new skills, grow your network and gain learning that will last a lifetime. You’ll have the opportunity to find out what it’s like to work at Nationwide, discovering more about the work we do and the career opportunities available to you.
Get ready to make an impact from your first day. At Nationwide, we challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our profit. We work on behalf of them. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives. Feel that difference as you Deliver more throughout your 8-week internship, helping us to make banking fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
Develop more as you gain valuable work experience, new skills and a wide network of colleagues. You’ll experience the unique culture of Nationwide, and our determination to make a difference to our customers and broader society.
How you do your job is just as important as what you do. So, we’ll encourage you to Dare more as you embrace our Customer First Behaviours, using your internship to push for better, get it done and say it straight. Behaviours that will help you shape your future career in banking.
It’s important that you’re able to thrive and reach your full potential. We want every colleague to know they’re an important part of our community, valued for their uniqueness and contribution. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive culture, and to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We’re creating access to opportunities where we typically see under-representation in banking. Our internship programme supports this by enabling talented people who may not consider or see the opportunity of a career in banking to explore what it is we do and help us change the outlook for the future.
The programme will begin in July and run for 8 weeks. To get the best from your internship you’ll work in a hybrid pattern, with a minimum of 2 days per week in an office location.
What you’ll be doing
Our Internships are designed to build your knowledge, skills and network for your future career in banking. You’ll join fellow interns to share your experience, supported by your manager who’ll provide advice and guidance along the way.
During the 8-week programme, you can look forward to:
- Building business essential skills and experience that will help to make the most of your internship and set you up for your future career in banking
- Learning about our mutual purpose, rich history and our blueprint for the future
- Making an impact through projects and tasks that provide an insight into your chosen business area
- Connecting with experts and over 50 other interns to share experiences
- Attend CV and cover letter workshops to help you capture and sell your experiences
About you
This role is all about building your knowledge, experience, and network for a future career in banking. You’ll need to be motivated to learn and develop, have a desire to meet new people, and be curious to explore new experiences and ideas.
To apply you’ll need to:
- Be currently attending or have an offer to start university from September 2025 in any degree or discipline
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Be available from July 7th for 8-weeks
- Meet the social mobility requirements for the programme. This is that your highest paid parent or guardian’s job is within our target occupation group* Applicable occupations are defined by the Social Mobility Commission as the below:
- Technical and craft occupations such as: motor mechanic, plumber, printer, electrician, gardener, train driver
- Routine, semi-routine manual and service occupations such as: postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, sales assistant, HGV driver, cleaner, porter, packer, labourer, waiter/waitress, bar staff
- Long-term unemployed (claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance or earlier unemployment benefit for more than a year)
*Main householder earner’s occupation categorisation is a national standard. For more details on why we ask this question and classification of occupations please see the Social Mobility Commission’s toolkit.
What is Social Mobility and why does this programme exist?
Social mobility is the link between a person’s occupation or income and the occupation or income of their parents. Research shows that someone’s socio-economic background (e.g. where they grew up, social class, the financial resources of their family, the type of school they attended, etc) can affect their career opportunities.
Research shows there is underrepresentation of people from working class backgrounds in Financial Services. We believe this internship will help contribute to addressing this and give individuals who may not have considered a career in financial services a high-quality experience and open up opportunity.
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide in addition to the salary (£23,000 for roles based in Swindon and Northampton, £26,750 for London), including:
- A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday
What makes us different
Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.
As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage, or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose: Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
What to do next?
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
Select your preferred business area – see below a summary of what each business area involves, and which locations are available.
Brand & Marketing (London/ Swindon)
During this internship you could be working closely with teams to create holistic customer insight. Deliver presentations as well as support with planning marketing campaigns whilst working collaboratively across various business areas.
Change (London & Swindon)
An opportunity to experience a fast paced, varied environment which supports change and people throughout the function. You’ll be able to gain so much experience and insight into areas such as Portfolio Management, Data and Functions, Member Technology Delivery.
Finance (Swindon)
We'll provide an understanding of the basics of what we do within finance and will then get you involved with helping on a project. This may be getting involved in testing, looking at how we pull together and analyse data or reviewing our performance against our competitors.
Human Resources (Swindon & Northampton)
Our People function play a critical role in evolving Nationwide to be a modern mutual, for the benefit of our customers. You'll be fully integrated into the team and shadow to learn from others and build new skills. Interns will get to see the breadth of the People function, its strategy, projects, as well as how we maintain critical relationships.
Legal (Swindon)
As part of this Internship, you’ll gain experience working directly with our Treasury and Litigation teams, gaining insight into advising the Society on corporate type issues and treasury activity as well as helping to support with disputes and conduct queries.
Relationship Management (Swindon)
As part of the Internship, you’ll specifically operate across our teams which consist of Broker Support and Business Development Managers that support both Residential & Buy-to-let Mortgages. You’ll gain invaluable experience working on project planning, change management, and how to build networks through effective communication and engagement.
Retail (Swindon & Northampton)
We have available Internships, within the Product area, where you could be working on new product initiatives, or product management; Collections & Recoveries where our teams provide specialist support to our customers; Operations teams where you’ll be working on customer incidents and remediation.
Risk (London)
You'll gain knowledge of the Risk function and experience of stakeholder engagement, working in a team, analysis of data and understand the risks faced by a building society.
Technology (Swindon)
As a modern mutual, technology plays a critical role. As we embrace and expand new tech innovations there's never been a more exciting time to be involved in tech.
Interesting valuable work with local mentoring and training provided to help you flourish whilst on your placement.
We’ll send you our online assessments to complete. If you are successful, you’ll then be invited to attend an interview which will take place in April.
