Placement Officer

As a key member of the Education and Student Experience Team you will support the work of the Placements Team within the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing & Midwifery You will play a key role in coordinating and organising the placement activity for specific course areas ensuring placement provision is carried out efficiently whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy. You will also work with the wider team to support other lifecycle activities and will support quality and compliance across the programmes and be required to deputise for the placement team leader.

We are looking to appoint a supportive, organised and motivated individual who is committed to driving improvements within our programmes. The successful candidate will have experience of maintaining information with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail and will have previously supported student or programme related processes. They will also be able to build effective relationships with staff and students.

You will have excellent customer service skills, with the ability to act with discretion and diplomacy to deal with confidential queries/material. Excellent team working skills are  required, the ability to analyse and solve problems, prioritise and organise your own workload and work autonomously. You will require excellent IT and communication skills, be flexible, and have the ability to undertake to plan and progress work activities working with numerous partner organisations across the country.  This will be a busy role liaising with learners,  employer partners, placement providers, and academic and clinical colleagues every day.

What We Offer

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities,a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits and join us to become part of something special.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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