Job Title: Work Placement Coordinator
Location: Wigan
Salary: (£21,509 – £25,894 pro rata, per annum) – 9-15 of the Sixth Form College Support Staff Pay Scale.
Job type: Full Year, Monday – Friday 08.30am – 4.30pm. 36.25 hours per week.
St John Rigby College offers a wide range of academic and vocational courses at all levels in a highly supportive and caring environment to approximately 1500 full-time students aged 16-18. We welcome applications from people who are keen to work with us to deliver educational excellence at all levels.
The College was last inspected in February 2017 and was judged to be “outstanding” in every category. Inspectors quote: “Students value the support they receive and are able to identify how it has helped their progress and developed their confidence. The Catholic mission and values permeate the college and are highly effective in developing students’ positive attitudes to learning.”
At St John Rigby College we are incredibly proud of the way in which we support all of our students to achieve outstanding results in their qualifications alongside enabling them to develop knowledge, skills and employment readiness ahead of taking their next steps beyond college.
The Role:
The aim of the post is to have responsibility for supporting students who undertake full-time vocational and technical study programmes to participate in high quality work placements. These industry work placements enable students to develop practical and technical skills, substantive occupational work experience and an awareness of working life in the sector which links to their programme of study.
The job role will support students’ preparation for industry placements, securing of placements with employers and monitoring of skills development while on placement. The College has an outstanding track record in the delivery of vocational qualifications and many students on large vocational courses undertake a successful high quality work placement experience.
In addition to these established qualifications, the College will begin delivery of T Levels and a Level 2 T Level Transition Programme in September 2022. Students on both T Levels and the Transition Programme will require access to high quality work placements.
The post will require you to operate in-line with key vocational and technical programmes offered by the College to meet specification placement hour requirements and contractual targets agreed with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) under its Capacity and Delivery Funding contract for building placement capacity for T-Level delivery.
Extra Info:
Salary and terms and conditions are in accordance with Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Pay and conditions.
For further details about the post, please visit the College’s website to download a copy of the job description, person specification and application pack for more information.
Applicants should complete the job application form and provide a supporting letter of application (no more than 2 sides of A4).
Closing date: 3 June 2022 at 12 O’clock.
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Interviews: TBC.
To apply for this role, click APPLY and you will be redirected to fill out the Application Form on our website.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of: Work Experience and Placement Officer, Work Placement Officer, Placements Officer, Work Experience Placement Coordinator, Placement Officer, Senior Placement Officer, may also be considered for this role.
