Work Placement and Career Coordinator (Creative Media)

Job title:

Work Placement and Career Coordinator (Creative Media)

Company:

College of West Anglia

Job description

Job Title: Work Placement and Careers Coordinator (Creative Media)Salary: £21,962 – £22,683 per annum (inclusive of a non-contractual recruitment and retention allowance of £1,389, reviewed annually)Hours: 37 hours per week, 37 weeks per year (term-time plus one week)Base: King’s LynnAre you passionate about young people achieving their full potential? Are you looking for a role where you can truly make a difference to our communities and local businesses? Then this could be the role for you.CWA are recruiting for a new Work Placement and Careers Coordinator focussing on our creative media students, from level 1 to 3 at our Kings Lynn campus. You will work closely with our students, teaching teams and local businesses to establish working partnerships to ensure that work placements are in place. In addition, you will offer careers advice and guidance to steer them through both their college career and the transition from college to paid employment, higher education or apprenticeships.The highly regarded Work Placement and Careers team work closely with both internal and external partners as well as providing pastoral and administrative support to our students.

You will arrange work placements for students undertaking science programmes ensuring all safety checks are in place, provide careers guidance to students and collect data on student destinations at the end of their courses. You must have a level 3 qualification or equivalent. You must also have Level 2 Maths and English (GCSE A*-C/9-4) or equivalent or be willing to obtain. You must also be willing to obtain IOSH Managing Safely and a Level 4 Careers qualification if you do not already have them.We are a successful, community-focused FE College based in the East of England. We have a thriving Work Placement and Careers team and in recent years, the department has grown from strength to strength. We offer an incredible training package and a chance to work within tight knit and supportive teams.We offer an excellent package including a generous annual leave allowance of 30 days per year for support staff, plus five College closure days, plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part-time), fee waivers on some College courses, a contributory pension scheme with the Local Government Pension Scheme, discounts with local businesses and access to a cycle to work scheme. CWA focusses on staff well-being and utilises both internal and external resources, such as a well-being committee and access to a free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme as well as comprehensive training and development.Job share opportunities are available for the right candidates.To apply online or to view all our current vacancies please visit .For further information specific to the role, or to arrange a visit please contact Ann Compton onClosing date for receipt of all applications: midnight, 23 June 2024 (Sunday)Interviews are provisionally scheduled for week commencing 1 July 2024Please note that all interviews are conducted face to face, we are unable to facilitate online interviews.CWA is committed to safeguarding and all staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS checks. You will be required to provide references and undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check as well as a barred list check. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search.This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 but Exceptions Order may apply.CWA reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient suitably qualified applications be received prior to the closing date.No agencies please

Expected salary

£20000 – 25000 per year

Location

King’s Lynn, Norfolk

Job date

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 02:55:41 GMT

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