Work Experience Coordinator
Sixth Form College Farnborough
Hampshire
- £24,310 - £30,277 pro rata
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 28 February 2025
Job overview
Location: The Sixth Form College Farnborough (with some travel between Academy Sites)
Closing Date: 9am Friday 28th February 2025
Interview Date: Friday 7th March 2025
Start date: As soon as possible
Role: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week, term time only.
Salary: Support Grade 4 £21,189.60 - £26,347.11 (£24,310 - £30,227 FTE per annum)
Background
The Prospect Trust is a multi-academy Trust based on the Hampshire / Surrey border. It provides outstanding education and support for c. 6,000 learners through its family of local academies that include The Sixth Form College Farnborough, Tomlinscote School, Frimley and Frimley CofE Junior School.
We are an ambitious Trust with a relentless desire to improve the educational outcomes and lives of the young people in our local communities. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Work Experience Coordinator to join our Careers team.
Our ideal candidate
We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and flexible individual with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal and administrative skills, to provide an outstanding service to students from (TPT) academies and to other schools outside of the trust who we provide a work experience service to.
The role
This is an excellent opportunity to work in partnership with local employers, schools and colleges to secure work experience placements for young people aged 14-18.
The successful applicant will work with the highly skilled work experience team delivering, promoting and expanding our quality service.
The main focus of this role is to:
● Be a first point of contact and provide a professional, customer focused service to schools, parents and students.
● Network with and optimise links with local employers.
● Endeavour to resolve enquiries at the first point of contact and escalate enquiries where necessary.
● Deliver or assist with student briefings, clinics and parent evenings.
● Conduct health and safety pre-placement visits when needed
● Maintain the work experience platform/database and ensure all necessary documentation is prepared, distributed and returned in accordance with the work experience process, ensuring confidentiality at all times.
This position is term time only. You will need to hold a full driving licence as movement between the sites is an essential criteria for this role.
How to apply
Please complete the attached application and equality monitoring forms and email all completed applications to recruitment@prospecttrust.org.uk by 9am Friday 28th February 2025.
Early applications are encouraged as the Trust may choose to interview and appoint a successful candidate on receipt of a suitable application.
If you would like to have a further discussion before applying for this role please email nikki.coleman@prospecttrust.org.uk.
Other information
The Prospect Trust takes the control and processing of employee data very seriously
and is committed to acting in line with the GDPR regulations; please read the attached applicant privacy notice which explains how your data is processed.
Prior to the interview, an online search will be conducted by HR, to identify any past or current incidents or issues that might affect your suitability to work with children and undertake this role. Please note this online search will be carried out only on publicly available information and be limited to issues relating to your suitability to work with children and/or in an educational environment. Issues that arise will not automatically be a bar to your employment at the Trust but may be discussed with you at interview. This is in line with statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified applicants, however all disabled applicants who meet our minimum criteria will be invited for interview.
The Prospect Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people within our care and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. Any future offer of employment remains subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS clearance, a health check and references.
Attached documents
About Sixth Form College Farnborough
- Sixth Form College Farnborough
- Prospect Avenue, Farnborough
- Hampshire
- GU14 8JX
- United Kingdom
The Sixth Form College Farnborough is a founding member of The Prospect Trust, which is a dynamic and ambitious multi-academy Trust on the Hampshire/Surrey border, providing outstanding education and support for almost 6,000 learners. Fueled by a relentless desire to improve the educational outcomes and lives of the young people in our local communities. The successful candidate will be expected to embrace the Trust’s values and play a key role in supporting its further growth and development.
The Trust’s core values are:
- Partnership: working together we can deliver better and more effectively than working alone.
- Restlessness: the current state is never good enough.
- Trust: open and transparent in everything we do.
- Quality: aspire to be the best in everything we do.
Judged outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in September 2021, the College now has almost 4,000 students enrolled on over 40 Level 3 courses. The College community continues to grow and a record number of applications were received for September 2023.
In recent years, academic outcomes have been well above the national average both in attainment and progress. Alps value added measures put the College in the top 10% of providers nationally both at A level and for vocational courses.
As well as the pursuit of academic excellence, the College is renowned for its commitment to providing the highest possible standard of pastoral care. A team of highly experienced tutors provide group/one-to-one support and students also have access to a first-rate onsite counselling service. The College benefits from excellent facilities and educational resources and works closely with seventeen partner secondary schools to ensure students enjoy a smooth transition to post-16 education.
What makes working at the College a unique experience:
- The opportunity to join an outstanding teaching environment surrounded by a team of experienced and motivated staff;
- Exceptional levels of support for students both inside and outside of lessons;
- Innovative use of IT to promote learning integrated into all usual teaching activities.
- Dedicated time and opportunity to develop within your role
- Regular opportunities for internal promotion
- Mentoring scheme for all new staff
- Excellent tracking and administration support with over 400 teaching and support staff
Staff Benefits:
- Generous pension schemes for both teaching and support staff
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the College Gym and cycle to work scheme
- Eye Test voucher
- Free flu vaccination
- Ample free parking
- A modern campus and an attractive, well maintained working environment
- Individual department staff rooms
- All teaching staff are provided with a portable device.
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