Placement Officer

Location: London (Waterloo), Manchester or Southampton

Sourcing key placement opportunities for nursing students

You’ll help guarantee an excellent journey for all students undertaking placements by assisting to ensure that administrative and support processes are properly set up and aligned across placements. With your excellent communication skills, you will support the delivery of a client relationship strategy that includes providing a range of placement opportunities for students. The role will proactively focus on organising placements across professionally accredited programmes ensuring good practices are disseminated and implemented and ensuring audits and service level agreements are up to date.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing apprenticeship administrative support to ensure the smooth running of programmes
• Taking ownership for the development, planning, administration, management, and allocation of placements
• Preparing student placement allocation plans for approval by the academic teams, taking in to account the relevant professional body requirements (NMC & HCPC).
• Maintaining accurate placement records, using a web-based placements database, and providing management information reports from the database.
• Working with databases and spreadsheets to manage, analyse and report on student and placement information.
• Contributing to the quality control processes for student placements using the placement database's audit and evaluation tools.
• Continually seeking to develop administrative processes to improve the service, enabling the high-quality standards needed to support regulated courses.
• Preparing reports for Health Education England, Head of Operations and Award Leaders.
• Acting as the first point of contact for Partners and student.

Choose a better work-life balance

With hybrid working available, you’ll be able to split your time between one of our centres and wherever you choose to call home. Either way, you’ll benefit from a vibrant workplace and a culture that believes in looking after others, while being part of a diverse workforce where difference is celebrated.  In addition, you’ll work alongside other like-minded professionals who champion progress, while having opportunities to develop in an environment where creativity and innovation is rewarded.  On top of a competitive salary, we provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts, Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated healthcare, and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family.  Brilliantly, you can also study any of BPP’s courses for free – be it a professional qualification or full degree.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in a customer service role
• Experience of working within the HE sector or within an educational or academic environment is highly desirable
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) at all levels, along with active listening skills
• Strong administrative skills along with close attention to detail
• The ability to effectively plan, organise and prioritise workload
• Experience of coordinating operational processes
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, and managing their expectations
• Digitally literate with a working knowledge of MS Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• The ability to collaborate effectively as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and suggest appropriate solutions
• Experience of working with data, data management and data analysis
• Experience of document maintenance/management

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a Basic DBS check.

Sound like the perfect fit? Apply today.

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