Industry Placement Officer

We are seeking a dedicated Industry Placement Officer to join our team and play a crucial role in connecting students with valuable work placement opportunities.

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We are seeking a dedicated Industry Placement Officer to join our team and play a crucial role in connecting students with valuable work placement opportunities. In this role, you will act as the primary point of contact between the College, students, and employers, ensuring the effective delivery of our work placement programmes.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and administer industry placements, including student induction, workshops, and one-on-one support sessions.
  • Source and cultivate relationships with employers to secure meaningful placements for students.
  • Assist students in developing employability skills, carry out vetting and pre-screening, and ensure appropriate support is provided during placements.
  • Conduct health and safety assessments, including on-site visits, ensuring placements comply with College policies.
  • Embed safeguarding practices within all placement activities and handle any concerns through the appropriate channels.
  • Maintain accurate records of placements, provide regular reports, and ensure data integrity across College systems.
  • Highlight student success stories and collaborate with the Marketing Team for promotional activities.
  • Support College events, update placement documentation, and assist with various administrative tasks.

Job Requirements:

  • Customer Service qualification or substantial experience in a customer service role.
  • Good standard of education, particularly in English, Mathematics, and Communications.
  • Aptitude for working in a customer-focused environment.
  • Sound knowledge of Health & Safety and Safeguarding practices.
  • Strong time management, organisational, and communication skills.
  • Experience in data management, reporting, and using IT applications.

The right candidate will have:

  • Ability to prioritise and work independently, as well as part of a team.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build successful working relationships.
  • Proactive approach with the ability to take initiative.

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

  • A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
  • Excellent pension provision
  • Annual Staff Awards
  • CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
  • Free onsite parking
  • Staff appreciation days
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
  • Well-being days & activities
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme*
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Hybrid Working available
  • Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
  • Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.