Work Placement Officer (Temporary)
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Job Description
Work Placement Officer
Temporary
Location: the South West
Are you a confident communicator who enjoys building relationships with employers and opening doors for young people?
About the Role
Working with a further education provider, you'll find work and industry placements for students, linking what they learn in the classroom to real experience in the workplace.
You'll spend your time contacting employers, building partnerships and making sure each placement is well matched, well prepared and properly recorded. Alongside placements, you'll help arrange careers talks, masterclasses, interview practice and virtual work experience.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Contacting employers to source suitable work placement opportunities.
- Checking that employers can offer proper supervision and a safe working environment.
- Working with teaching teams to match students with relevant placement opportunities.
- Keeping accurate records of placement hours, employer activity and compliance checks.
- Preparing students before they start a placement, including paperwork and training.
What We're Looking For
Essential:
- Experience in a professional setting with customer service skills
- Confidence contacting and building relationships with employers and clients
- A good understanding of health and safety requirements for work placements
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage records and solve problems
- A confident communicator who can support students professionally
- Willing to complete a new Enhanced DBS check as required
Important Notice Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Dovetail and Slate Ltd (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. We are an equal opportunities employer. By applying, you consent to your data being processed for recruitment purposes in line with our Privacy Policy. Because education matters. © Dovetail and Slate Limited.
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Your Recruitment Consultant
Fin Brown
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Requirements
- Experience in a professional setting with customer service skills
- Confidence contacting and building relationships with employers and clients
- Good understanding of health and safety requirements for work placements
- Strong organisational skills
- Record management and problem-solving abilities
- Enhanced DBS check required
Skills & Qualifications
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- Sector: Further And Higher Education
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