Placements Officer

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join King's College London and work with our Placements Team in the Nightingale Student Hub. We provide a range of student and education support services for the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, & Palliative Care, including supporting practice learning for our students in clinical placements.

The work of our Placements Team is essential to supporting over 11,500 placements each year. As a Placement Officer, you will help us to provide world-leading educational support for student placements. Our Placements Team are part of a dynamic and evolving landscape of practice-learning which reaches beyond our many NHS Trust Partners into placements within communities across Greater London.

The successful candidate will be able to support effective partnerships and work supportively at all levels, both internally and externally. With a highly motived approach, the successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the importance of a student-focussed service and an ethos of continual enhancement. The successful candidate will be committed to contributing to our objectives, exemplifying Our Principles in Action as part of King’s Strategic Vision 2029.

This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

 About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and the ability to work on new systems
• Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse complex numerical data
• Ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner
• Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills, underpinned by strong interpersonal skills and personal effectiveness, able to deliver high quality work and projects to deadlines, work efficiently and prioritise appropriately, and take individual responsibility for planning and undertaking work
• Commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity for staff and students
• Curious, customer service oriented, with a commitment to personal accountability and continuous improvement

Desirable criteria

• Degree level or equivalent qualification or experience
• Experience in the use of databases, student records systems (such as SITS), placement management systems (such as InPlace) and website content management systems (ideally Contensis)
• Prior experience of working in a customer facing environment
• Experience of using virtual learning environments (primarily KEATS)

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