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Employability Skills and Placement Officer - Sport and Public Services
The Sheffield College, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 2RL6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Business support, administration and corporate services
- Student support, learning and progress
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £33,824 - £38,028 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Demonstrates a high level of competency in the use of IT applications e.g. Microsoft Office and Web based systems, email, and Google docs.
Ability to help learners to transfer their employability skills to other parts of their lives
Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills to effectively work in partnership with college staff, students, and employers.
The ability to deal with confidential and sensitive information and situations with diplomacy, discretion, and tact
Empathy with young people facing barriers to their learning.
Experience of monitoring and assessing learner progress in ways that deliver excellent outcomes
Experience of recruitment and interviewing processes and techniques
Experience of engaging/collaborating with employers and providing outstanding customer service
Experience of working in a business support environment
Experience of facilitating learning with post 16-year-old groups
Level 2 English and Maths Qualification or Equivalent
Level 3 qualification in a relevant curriculum area
Qualification or experience of Health & Safety in the Workplace
Knowledge & understanding of Health and Safety obligations in compliance with existing law and in accordance with the DFE guidance
Knowledge and understanding of the definitions of Work Experience/Placements applicable to post 16 Study Programmes, including technical levels and extended industry placements
Knowledge of post-16 curriculum qualifications
Knowledge of the Further Education sector
What the college offers its staff
As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of between £33,824 - £38,028 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.
Alongside your salary, your pension is one of the most valuable benefits of joining the College. The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), administered locally by SYPA, provides financial security in retirement and support for your loved ones.
Our Full Benefits Package
- SYPA – with a generous employer contribution
- Annual leave - 30 Days (222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays (59.2 hours)- this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period
- Health and wellbeing support, including:
- Employee assistance programme through Bupa
- Occupational Health through PAM
- Free eye tests for VDU users
- Free parking is available at the majority of our campuses
- Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
- Continuous professional development opportunities
- A people‑focused working culture where you can grow and thrive
Further information can be found on our Benefits and Career Development pages.
Further information about the job
The Sheffield College is a large, vibrant and diverse further education college and we are proud of how the college contributes to transforming lives through learning by meeting local skills needs.
We have high aspirations and standards for ourselves, and our learners and this role will be a key one in supporting the college’s mission to be consistently great and ensure our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, apprenticeships, further training, and university level courses.
You will be responsible for ensuring learners gain high quality placements, experience of work and placements tasters, you will interact with the learner to jointly identify challenges and find solutions to overcome barriers to placements. You will be required to manage a case load of vacancies and candidates including shortlisting student applications and liaise with employers to set up student interviews. You will visit students in the workplace, offering training, support and assessment for the units within the qualification.
Main Responsibilities:
- You will work closely with course leader, tutor mentor and the employer to ensure students are fully engaged with their learning and placement, fully stretched and able to achieve their goals.
- Support curriculum teams, students, and employers to plan and deliver industry placements, mandatory placements, and placement tasters
- Plan and coordinate employability development opportunities, guest speaking workshops and job ready activities for all students, working in collaboration with the Heads of Student Experience and other College colleagues, in accordance with the curriculum plan.
- Provide outstanding customer service to employers via established contact routes and site visits
- Deliver Work-related activity including a minimum of 300 hours classroom delivery, induction workshop including introduction to placements and placement tasters and relevant employability programmes e.g. MoveAhead, GetAhead and StayAhead
- Assess students’ readiness for the industry placement, agree and implement individual employability development plans, including the setting placement objectives linked to the qualification and populate student learner record on WRA
- Provide a range of professional, guidance and information to overcome challenges the student has, referring to specialists where appropriate
- Prepare learners for interview (supported by careers team where appropriate)
- Support the CAS Team to ensure collection of all student compliance documentation including the obtaining of DBS clearance, parental consent forms and signed student service level agreements and other compliance documentation prior to the placement commencing
- Manage first day in placement date including the completion of the 3-way induction paperwork (learner, employer, college)
- Act as a support for a caseload of “at-risk” students seeking new opportunities to complete their qualification or study programme
- Agree a work placed action plan with employers, curriculum teams and assess student performance against agreed plan.
- Monitor and assess the performance of students and keeping appropriate records to comply with college policy. This could include, amongst others, assessing presentations, practical demonstrations, group work etc. Recording the results of practical assessment, tracking progress, providing constructive feedback, and setting targets are integral to this element of the role
- Coordinate, plan and host internal events to promote employability development across all College students and the Employer Skills Academy programmes.
- Support and encourage the logging of placement hours on the WRA system
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About The Sheffield College
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- Joe.Austin@sheffcol.ac.uk
The Sheffield College is a further and higher education college that provides academic, vocational and professional qualifications to approximately 13,218 young people and adults a year. Our mission is transforming lives through learning.
The college, which is Ofsted graded ‘good’, provides high quality academic, technical and vocational training to enhance qualifications, skills and employability across the region, and operates from a number of campuses and sites across the city.
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