Placement Consultant

**Location**

St Helens

**Company**

Education and Skills

**Contract type**

Permanent/ Full
- time

**Salary**

Up to £ 25,000 per annum

**Closing Date**

23/02/2025

**Ref No**

4489

**The Growth Company’s (GC)**Education and Skills team is seeking a Placement Consultant to deliver a comprehensive and high-quality work placement service. This role focuses on supporting employers, 16-23-year-old students, and trainees, facilitating meaningful placements that lead to employment opportunities and Apprenticeship uptake.

As one of the UK’s largest providers of skills and training, we are committed to empowering individuals and businesses through apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. By working closely with leading businesses, we ensure our curriculum aligns with industry needs, enhancing both career prospects for individuals and business productivity.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Continually create and refresh an extensive caseload of businesses that enable individual and company Work Placement targets to be met across all occupational area
- Carry out a professional and high-quality employer resourcing service
- Identify all student needs with regards to Work Placement and progression routes and provide effective solutions, accurately planning, tracking and recording progress
- Agree and set targets with students to ensure learning and performance targets are met and exceeded
- Provide guidance, support and training services to recently employed/placed individuals
- Update company MI systems as required to log employer and student interactions
- To comply with all Growth Company H&S and Safeguarding processes and procedures
- Provide guidance, support and training services to recently employed/placed individuals
- Attend local Networking Forums to build and maintain strong relationships with local employers, raise awareness of the Growth Company Study Programme, and develop new and existing work placements

**About you**
- Outstanding customer service standards and previous experience of Quality Systems
- Ability to communicate and motivate young people and employers and to influence and build relationships
- A professional manner at all times and must abide by all Growth Company policies and procedures
- Flexible approach to work including hot-desking, local travel, out of hours working to match when students are on placement, ability to work in the local community

**Essential Skills**
- Proven organisation, project management and tracking skills
- Excellent end to end recruitment skills and selling skills
- Ability to priorities workload and operate within a fast moving and target driven environment
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills to businesses at all levels
- Comprehensive empathy with the issues effecting unemployed young people
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure, demonstrating personal resilience without constant direct supervision
- Excellent written and oral communication skills

**Current full UK Driving License and access to a car is a must, travelling expense will be covered.**

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.