Work Placement Administrator Construction - Fixed Term

Vision West Nottinghamshire College; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Vision West Nottinghamshire College is seeking a Work Placement Administrator for Construction - Fixed Term. You will support placement activities across Construction Crafts and Building Services, liaising with students and employers and maintaining placement records.

The role requires strong communication, data handling skills, and the ability to manage bursary forms and placement software. Flexibility for events and a 8:30am–5pm schedule is needed.

Responsibilities

• Support the work placement engagement officers and coaches within Construction Crafts and Building Services.
• Deliver outstanding customer service as the frontline of a busy student-facing service.
• Complete health and safety training to prioritise low and medium risk health and safety assessments by employers.
• Assist students dropping in, and book work placement interventions in the relevant diaries.
• Support students to use the work placement management and tracking system and to complete bursary forms.
• Contribute to achieving work placement targets for study programme and industry placements.
• Build positive relationships with students, tutors and support staff; communicate face to face, by phone and email with empathy.

Job description

Work Placement Administrator Construction - Fixed Term

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary The salary will be VBSS Band 3b, £25,000 per annum. This is a spot salary.

The purpose of this role is to provide support to all activities carried out by the work placement engagement officers and coaches within Construction Crafts and Building Services. Delivering outstanding customer service, you will act as the frontline of a busy student facing service. Another key element of the role is to complete health and safety training to prioritise the completion of low and medium risk health and safety assessments by employers, through contacting by various means, including email, phone and other methods.

You will support students dropping in, booking work placement interventions in relevant work placement officer’s diaries, supporting students to use the work placement management and tracking system, supporting to complete bursary forms, and overall contributing to achieving work placement targets for both study programme and industry placements.

The ideal candidate will be confident in communication with students, employers and other stakeholders to help ensure; low and medium risk health and safety electronic paperwork is completed in a timely manner, student and employer placement feedback is completed, confirmation messages are sent and that other relevant paperwork is returned.

It is essential that the person appointed has the ability to build positive relationships with students, tutors and support staff. Confident to communicate face to face and using telephone, email correspondence with an understanding and empathy with some of the barriers that students may face when attempting to enter the working world.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in using spreadsheets and databases, able to multi-task, prioritise and monitor the stages placements have reached using the work placement software of which full training will be provided. In addition, creating a range of reports for the team, teachers and Heads of Centre.

The standard hours of work are between 8.30am to 5pm but candidates must be flexible to work outside of these hours to cover events such as open evenings, early morning or evening appointments and external events when required to do so.

The role will require you to embed the college’s values; Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Ambition and Compassion.