Industry Placement Officer

The Potteries Educational Trust is a growing Multi Academy Trust, working collaboratively with educational institutions from across Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire and beyond, seeking to improve outcomes for all children and young people in the region. The Trust is a vibrant Learning Community working to maintain and develop excellent and innovative teaching and learning. The Trust seeks to deliver high quality parental engagement, pastoral support and the pooling of resources and expertise to achieve an Outstanding learning experience and outcomes for all our children and young people. Institutions work together to foster high quality academic and pastoral support, utilising the best elements of educational research in moving existing strong practice to outstanding in every sense.

The City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College is a thriving, lively and successful Sixth Form College, at the heart of the University Quarter in Stoke on Trent. We have fantastic opportunities for innovative, ambitious and committed individuals to join our college at a time of exciting curriculum initiatives and developments. The successful applicants will join the college at a time of growth and opportunity.

We are seeking to appoint a motivated, dynamic and committed person to join a high performing team at the forefront of Technical Education. The successful candidate will support the development of student industry placements across our growing number of T level qualifications. Identifying local, regional and national employers to facilitate high quality placement opportunities is a key element of this role.

The successful person will work with the other existing Industry Placement Officers to ensure partner employers are aware of, and compliant with, relevant legislation and best practice guidance to support students having positive placement experiences.

In addition, the post holder will provide individual and group support to ensure our young people represent the college well and develop the requisite skills before and during their industry placement.

The Trust is committed to offering flexible employment practices enabling staff to strike a sensible balance between home and work life. This role is a whole year position however, we are open to discussing the possibility of a range of flexible working patterns, e.g. term-time only or flexible start and finish times. Please feel free to discuss this at the selection stage and we can explore what is possible for the role whilst ensuring we meet the business needs of the Trust.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.