Professional Practice Placement Team Manager

Turning Passion into Purpose. London South Bank University is seeking an experienced and motivated Professional Practice Team Manager to lead the College's Professional Practice team and ensure the delivery of a high-quality, responsive, and student-focused service supporting professional practice placements across the College of Health and Life Sciences.

This is a varied and people-focused leadership role, responsible for overseeing all placement and pre-placement administrative activities across a diverse portfolio including Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work, and Allied Health disciplines. You will lead a team of Professional Practice Advisors, ensuring the effective management of systems, processes, and operational activities that underpin students' professional practice experiences.

Working closely with academic colleagues, NHS Trusts, professional practice providers, and external stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring students are fully prepared for placement activity and that all professional, regulatory, and organisational requirements are met. You will be responsible for maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships, ensuring the timely completion of placement requirements, and driving continuous improvement across services and systems.

About You

You will have significant experience working within a professional practice, placement, or student administration environment, ideally within higher education, healthcare education, or a related sector. You will bring strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading teams, managing operational workloads, and fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performing working environment.

You will be an excellent communicator, able to build productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and confident providing specialist advice and guidance on professional practice processes and requirements. You will have experience developing and improving administrative systems and processes, using data and metrics to inform decision-making and enhance service delivery.

You will be highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities and ensure the successful delivery of complex operational activities within a cyclical academic environment. Experience of working with placement management systems and an understanding of professional practice requirements within health, social care, or related disciplines would be highly advantageous.

Benefits and How to Apply:

As a leading Higher Education Institution LSBU offers staff a highly competitive benefits package including holiday entitlement starting at 26.5 days per annum, professional development opportunities and flexible working. Full details on the range of benefits we offer can be found here.

The person specification for this role alongside applicant guidance on what to submit within your application can be found within the candidate pack attached. Applications must be submitted via the "Apply" button.

For an informal conversation ahead of applying please feel free to contact the hiring manager for this position, Lee Standen, College Director of Operations, lee.standen@lsbu.ac.uk

We are happy to talk flexible working and reasonable adjustments and aim to make our recruitment and selection process accessible to all, please contact us to discuss any support you need. The diversity of LSBU’s staff and students is a source of our strength and the richness of ideas and perspectives that this diversity brings makes LSBU a unique place to work.

Depending on your circumstances, this role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UKVI Skilled Worker route, more details on this can be found within the candidate pack.

If you have any questions related to your application, please email the recruitment team hrdsr@lsbu.ac.uk

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.

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