Job Title: Work Experience Coordinator
Location: Hulme, Manchester
Salary: £19,719 – £20,771 pro-rata. (Actual amount – £16,866.78 – £17,766.61)
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Closing Date: 10.00am on Monday 23rd January 2023
Job Purpose:
- As a member of the Careers and Employability Team, participate in the delivery of careers education, information, advice and guidance within the College.
- To support the Careers department in implementing the Government’s Careers Strategy and Statutory Guidance, including the implementation of the Gatsby Benchmarks.
- Liaise with external bodies, relevant staff in College and parents/carers ensuring that the College secures appropriate work experience placement opportunities for its students and learners receive a high quality of work experience provision.
- Co-ordinate employer engagement and employability related activities across the College including the work experience offer.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- To plan and provide robust and impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance to students in the College (as individuals and groups), to assist their progression into employment, Higher or Further Education, training, Apprenticeships, work etc.
- To plan, organise, co-ordinate and contribute to the implementation of the college’s careers programme, liaising with outside agencies to secure specialist expertise as appropriate.
- To develop a comprehensive database of employer contacts and assist with marketing efforts to attract new employer links to maintain a wide, up to date, knowledge of employer engagement across all sectors.
- To establish and develop work placement / experience opportunities for all learners on mainstream courses.
- To ensure that, learners are offered appropriate opportunities to undertake work experience placements.
- To find suitable placements for Level 2 and 3 vocational learners, with a view to meeting course requirements and matching each learner’s needs, career aspirations and interests to an appropriate placement.
- To support the administration of DBS checks for students.
- To ensure all paperwork related to short and long term work experience placements including the checking of employer liability insurance is routinely completed.
- To update learner records relating to work experience on departmental documents and MyLoreto.
- To ensure all health and safety regulations including risk and impact assessments are met with regard to learners and their work experiences(s).
- To organise and co-ordinate staff visits to placements.
- To collate and analyse employer feedback forms.
- To identify and arrange for employers to give specialist talks to learners at the College.
- To undertake visits to learners on placement.
- Assist the Careers Manager in evaluating the success of work experience across the College.
- To promote Equality and Diversity in all aspects of your area.
- To attend staff training, meetings or conferences as required.
- To maintain appropriate administration records in accordance with college requirements.
- To adhere to Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- To become familiar with the services provided by the office in order to be able to deal with enquiries and requests for information from both internal and external enquirers.
The successful Candidate:
Essentials:
- Experience in an administrative role
- Proficiency in working with standard office applications such as MS Word, Excel and Outlook
- Ability to prioritise and multitask, managing own workload
- The ability to recognise and appreciate the confidential nature of some work undertaken
- Carries out routine liaison to pass on information promptly and accurately to all those who need to know.
- Ability to empathise with 16-19 year olds within a college situation
- High level of literacy/communication skills
- Evidence of commitment to Continuous Professional Development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, or substantial relevant experience that demonstrates a high order of literacy, numeracy and analytical skills.
Desirable:
- Experience working in Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance
- Recent experience of providing Work Experience placements gained either from an educational setting, Local Authority or employer context
- Administrative experience in an educational environment
- Some knowledge of local & national labour market developments and trends
- Some knowledge of the Government’s careers strategy for Schools and Colleges
- Knowledge of the DBS application process
- Experience of providing wellbeing support for students
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Candidates with the experience and relevant job titles of: Student Services Supervisor, Team Leader, Customer Service Coordinator, Customer Support Lead, Front of House Supervisor may also be considered for this role.
