Work Placement Coordinator

A permanent position ahs become available as a Work Placement Coordinator to support our work industry placements and opportunity for learners in the Business and Digital Sectors.

This role will be developed in the future to support with T-level pathways as well once the T-Level Structure is imbedded and the individual grows into the role.

Work Placement roles require a good management of stakeholder relationships as you will be working closely with external individuals such as employers in order to identify potential job opportunities for our students. There is also an element of a proactive sales approach where there is a need to generate for opportunities with employers.

As part of the Student Services Department there will be great opportunities to support with college functions such as open evenings.

• Manage, maintain and develop work experience opportunities and systems for Business and Digital learners and working with assessors within the sector.
• To work closely with students to identify their work aspirations in order to match them with suitable placements.
• Working alongside employers to ensure all parties are supported whilst on placement
• To assist with support duties in the Employer Engagement department as may be required from time to time.
• Assist at College functions e.g open evenings, enrolment evenings, parent’s evenings and placement provider events.

• Knowledge of safeguarding issues in education – essential

• Knowledge of current developments and opportunities in local LMI. – essential

Ability to work on own initative

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.

Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The college’s safeguarding policies are available here.