Job Title: Work Placement Support Officer Salary: Commencing at £25,556 with progression to £26,200 per annumClosing Date: About the Role

We’re looking for a Work Placement Officer to join our friendly Careers, Work Experience & Progression team within the Student Life Directorate.

Our team plays a key role in shaping an outstanding student experience, connecting learning to real-world opportunities and supporting the wider college and group strategy. If you’re passionate about helping students take their next steps, this could be the perfect role for you.

You’ll be based at our vibrant Quarry Hill campus, a unique mix of green spaces and modern design, home to specialist childcare training facilities, digital tech labs, and industry-standard studios and theatres. With strong employer links and cutting-edge resources, it’s an inspiring place to work and just a five-minute walk from the bus station.

In this role, you’ll work closely with T Level and other students, employers, and curriculum teams to make sure work placements are meaningful, well-matched, and successfully completed. Collaborating with our Business Engagement and curriculum colleagues, you’ll help ensure every student is placed in the right setting to thrive and gain valuable industry experience.

What You Will Do

• Support students prior to placements by identifying their skills, qualities, interests and aspirations and matching them to appropriate work placements sourced by the business engagement team.
• Delivering placement based sessions to students
• Supporting students to arrange pre-placement visits, agreeing expectations with students and employers.
• Be a point of contact for both students and employers during the placement
• Managing your own caseload of students
• Undertake a range of general administration duties relating to the role
• Be willing to travel across the Leeds City Region to support placements.

About You

• Understanding of employability skills needed for a work placement, and how to equip students with these skills.
• Experience of working with young people in a group and one to one basis.
• An ability to develop effective working relationships with young people, college staff, employers and other stakeholders.
• Enthusiastic, positive and understanding of students’ needs. Initiative, self-motivation and the ability to persuade, influence and motivate others.
• A willingness to work flexibly both independently and as part of a team.
• Would be desirable if you had an understanding of 16-18 education and the T-Level agenda.

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa     (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.SAFEGUARDING At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.RECRUITMENT AGENCIES We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

• We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
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