Placement Officer

The Regenda Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

Volunteer days

Pension contributions 5%

Learning and development

Employee assistance programme

Equipment/travel loans

Work-life balance

Job summary

The Learning Foundry, part of The Regenda Group, is recruiting a Placement Officer to secure and coordinate high-quality work placements for learners across funded programmes. You will build strong employer links in the Liverpool City Region and provide IAG to learners to ensure successful progression.

The role emphasizes supporting learners and employers, managing priorities, and working in a hybrid Liverpool city centre setting with a 35-hour work week.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar field/role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including presentation skills.
• Ability to handle changing priorities, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of funding streams and employability or skills programmes.
• Confident networking and building new connections.
• IAG Level 3 qualification is desirable but not essential.
• Sales/recruitment background would be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Secure and coordinate a range of high-quality work placement opportunities with suitable employers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local employers across the Liverpool City Region.
• Provide high-quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) to learners and employers to ensure successful placements.
• Support learners to achieve positive progression and destination outcomes and align with programme objectives.

Skills

Placement coordination

Communication skills

Networking

Adaptability

Funding awareness

Sales background

Education

IAG Level 3 qualification

Job description

• Liverpool city centre office base, hybrid working

• Annual salary of £30,000 (FTE)
• Permanent role
• Full-time (35 hours)
• Liverpool city centre office base, hybrid working

Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 29th September 2026

The role

The Placement Officer supports learners across The Learning Foundry's funded learning programmes by securing and coordinating a range of high-quality work placement opportunities with suitable employers.

The role plays a key part in helping learners develop their skills, gain valuable workplace experience, and successfully transition into sustainable employment.

A core responsibility of the role is to build and maintain strong relationships with local employers across the Liverpool City Region, creating placement opportunities that align with learners' skills, interests, and career aspirations. Equally important is developing positive relationships with learners to understand their individual abilities, support needs, and desired employment outcomes.

Supporting learners to achieve positive progression and destination outcomes is at the heart of this role. The Placement Officer will provide high-quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) to both learners and employers, ensuring placements are successful, beneficial, and aligned with programme objectives.

The right fit

• You have demonstrable experience in a similar field / role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to communicate highly complex information that may be difficult to understand.
• Ability to deal with changing priorities, work under pressure, work to tight deadlines and be flexible.
• You have knowledge of funding streams and experience working within an employability or skills programme.
• You’re confident networking and building new connection.
• An IAG Level 3 qualification would be desirable but not essential.
• A sales / recruitment background would also be highly regarded.

Who We Are

At The Learning Foundry we are passionate about helping people and businesses achieve their full potential. Whether it's helping someone to start or progress in their career or supporting a business to recruit new staff or upskill their workforce, we are a full-service training provider with the knowledge and experience to suit individual needs.

The Learning Foundry is part of The Regenda Group; we work in places where we can make a difference and operate across the housing and construction sector, in care and support, and in education, training and careers.

What We Offer

The Learning Foundry really is a great place to work - and you don’t have to just take our word for it! We’re accredited by Best Companies for our 'world class' levels of staff engagement and have been consistently named as one of the Best Companies to Work For in the North West.

We can offer you a working environment where you can enjoy yourself, develop yourself and be yourself and where you really can make a difference to people's lives.

We also offer a fantastic reward and benefits package which, amongst other things, includes:

• A range of flexible working options.
• 27 days paid annual leave each year (rising one day per year up to a maximum of 32 days after five years) in addition to 8 bank holidays.
• 6 additional days for volunteering.
• 5% Employers Contribution to the Pension Scheme.
• £250 annual 'Live and Learn' allowance to spend on learning any new skill.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme and health and wellbeing initiatives
• A wide variety of exciting learning and development opportunities.
• Interest free loans to assist with the purchase of computer equipment and travel season tickets.
• Monthly staff lottery scheme.

"We regenerate places and create opportunities for people"

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and minority ethnic candidates as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we’d encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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