Work Experience Co-ordinator: Health and Social Care

NCG; North East; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000

Job description

Work Experience Co-ordinator (Health and Social Care)

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary: £25,597.00 per annum pro rata

Terms and Conditions: 22.2 hours, 0.6 FTE, Permanent

The Vacancy

Newcastle College is seeking to appoint a passionate and dedicated Work Experience Coordinator to support students in gaining valuable real-world experience and developing the skills needed for future success.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Collaborating with the teaching team to prepare students for work placements by creating engaging and effective learning environments. This includes contributing to curriculum delivery via preparation for work activities, as well as supporting extra-curricular programmes.
2. Coordinating the planning, organisation, and administration of work experience opportunities, including liaising with external stakeholders and ensuring high-quality placements for students.
3. Maintaining accurate records of placements, ensuring compliance with safeguarding and health and safety requirements.
4. Training students and staff to maximise the benefits of work experience and to meet the specific demands of various placement opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-motivated, cohesive, and successful team. The Health and Science department at Newcastle College fosters a supportive and collaborative environment where colleagues work together to ensure students reach their full potential, and stakeholders benefit from a robust and impactful curriculum.

If you're enthusiastic about enabling students to thrive and are committed to making a difference, we'd love to hear from you!

About Newcastle College

Newcastle College is a further and higher education college offering hundreds of vocational courses, apprenticeships and professional qualifications, alongside more than 70 degrees and higher technical qualifications, delivered through Newcastle College University Centre.

We consider Newcastle College to be at the heart of the North East; a welcoming, supportive, inclusive and safe place, where everybody can be themselves as part of our vibrant and diverse community.

We're proud to be one of seven colleges that make up NCG, one of the country's leading college groups and we're a key part of providing education and training to learners, apprentices and employers across the UK. Newcastle College's vision is to develop the skills and talents of our students to succeed in modern enterprise and make a positive contribution to the prosperity of our region.

Newcastle College benefits from passionate and talented colleagues, who form a community committed to supporting our students to develop their skills and talents and achieve their aspirations. By joining our team you'll be part of an organisation that works in close partnership with employers and local industry to offer education and skills training that leads to real employment opportunities for our learners and makes strong local economic impact here in the North East. Whatever your role, you'll have the chance to work collaboratively with colleagues across all seven NCG colleges and share expertise, innovate and accomplish real change for our learners.

Newcastle College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At Newcastle College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity

As part of the NCG Group, Newcastle College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers' pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.