Work Experience Placement Officer

**Salary**

£26,269- £28,053 Per annum

** Contractual hours**

36.66

** Basis**

Full Time

** Package**

Excellent Benefits

** Job category/type**

Support Staff

** Date posted**

10/11/2025

** Job reference**

2020OC1134

**Work Experience Placement Officer**

**£26,269- £28,053 Per annum**

**The Role**:
An exciting opportunity for driven individuals with previous experience in business development to join our Work Experience team. With responsibility for generating and coordinating Work Experience Placements and supporting T level Industry Placements across the College, you will be expected to develop the number and range of work experience opportunities provided for students at Oldham College and to support our internal students to progress onto apprenticeships. Due to the nature of the role, you will need a full driving license and access to a car to be successful in this post.

**Key responsibilities for our Work Experience Placement Officers**:

- To work with the Heads of Faculty and Programme Leaders, in accordance with work experience quality standards to develop an ambitious provision focusing on the key outcomes of employability, developing a strong work ethic and securing successful progression aims for all students.
- To be responsible for the planning, development, organisation and delivery of specifically
- designed work placements for the study programme and employer engagement events that will engage and inspire 16-18 year old students. To support the T Level delivery team in the planning and implementation of Industry Placements.
- To promote and raise awareness of the whole College's employability offer. This includes developing employer relationships and improving the understanding of T Levels, work experience and apprenticeships in the local business community.

**To be successful as a Work Experience Placement Officer you will need**:

- To be qualified to at least NVQ Level 3 or above.
- Experience of working with young people and employers to facilitate work experience opportunities or recruitment brokering experience.
- The ability to inspire students, staff and employers to participate through the use of exciting and relevant strategies.
- A full UK driving license and access to a car.

**Joining our Journey**:
_ When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:_

- Generous Pension Scheme
- Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
- Very generous holiday entitlement
- Employee Assistance Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
- Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
- Free confidential counselling service
- Staff recognition awards
- Car Scheme
- Subsidised car parking
- On-site Day Nursery
- On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.