Senior Placement Officer

About Us

King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development. 

About The Role

We are really pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as a Senior Placements Officer working within the Placements Team of the Student Hub. 

Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary postgraduate taught and research programmes. We also host the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, the premier institute for palliative care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams. Our applied clinical & health research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. We are ambitious to expand our quality research and international postgraduate taught and research offering.

We are looking for someone with a genuine passion & commitment to providing the very best possible experience for our staff and students. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated senior administrator to join the team. 

The Senior Placements Officer will be responsible for supporting the Placements team within the Nightingale Student Hub in delivering high-quality education and practice learning support to students and staff. The post-holder will support the consistent delivery of teaching & learning provision. The Senior Placements Officer will oversee and co-ordinate the work of the Placements Officers to ensure that their activities are carried out efficiently and that administration of all matters relating to the students and education services processes are carried out to a high-level of accuracy.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), & 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.

Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days per week on campus, Waterloo

About You

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

Essential criteria 

• Demonstrated programme administration experience, preferably gained within a Higher Education context.  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to draft document & correspondence tailored to diverse audiences.
• Proficient in numerical analysis, with a keen eye for detail & accuracy when handling complex data, employing a data-driven decision-making approach.  
• Proven experience in stakeholder management, with the ability to interact confidently &  professionally with a wide range of stakeholders.  
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, adept at meeting tight deadlines and managing competing priorities, & recognising when escalation or support is required.  
• Curious, customer service oriented, with a commitment to personal accountability and continuous improvement, coupled with the ability to address complaints and service issues efficiently and professionally.  
• Experience collaborating effectively within a diverse team, demonstrating a proactive approach, and possessing the capability to work autonomously.  
• Excellent working knowledge of IT systems, such as Microsoft Office suite.  

Desirable criteria 

• Experience in the use of databases, student records systems (such as SITS & InPlace).  
• Dedication to fostering equality and diversity in the workplace.  
• Experience providing pastoral care to students & signposting internal and external recourses.
• Experience of student placement administration.  
• Team leadership or staff management experience.

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