Student Training and Progression Officer

**Location**: Leicester

**Salary**: £20,000-£28,000

**Job Type**:Permanent, Full Time

**The Company**:
Juniper are an innovative, flexible and experienced provider in delivering training solutions to individuals and businesses in Wolverhampton and throughout the Midlands. We are listed on the Governments Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers and arerated as GOOD by Ofsted in all areas of provision.

**Job Outline & Purpose**
- To market, advertise and 'sell' students to potential employers and businesses for work experience, jobs, apprenticeships and further education opportunities.
- To undertake regular in-centre and placement reviews to measure students' progress.
- To have a bank of at least 50 live employers form a selection of career sectors and source work-experience placements for all students.
- To undertake robust risk assessments.
- To ensure students have access to good quality career guidance.
- To progress students into positive destinations - apprenticeships, employment or further education.
- To deliver employability based workshops to groups as appropriate.
- To safeguard the welfare of all students, preventing radicalisation and promoting British Values.

**Work-Experience**
- Carry out effective marketing to local employers to ensure sufficient work-experience placements are recruited and retained, including: cold-calling, employer visits, recruitment fairs, local events and networking, ensuring the database is maintained andrelationships managed to gain further business.
- Ensure all students have a purposeful, individualised learning plan; ensuring appropriate work-experience activities are planned as a key component to the course and students are appropriately prepared before entering their work experience placement.
- Undertake robust risk assessments and ensure current risk assessments are in place for all live placements.
- To work with employers to find out what their business needs are and focus matching students to employers.
- Conduct meaningful reviews are conducted as in-line within the review procedure and they are appropriately documented.
- To ensure students maintain a learning diary of work experience and progression activity to show distance travelled.
- Remain in regular contact with placement contacts to ensure issues are dealt with efficiently, and provide excellent levels of customer service.
- Conduct workplace attendance checks/registers.

**Information, Advice and Guidance**
- Assist and empower students to fulfil their potential by increasing expectations and raising aspirations.
- To know and understand where to access local and national support agencies to ensure all students access to good, quality IAG about learning and work to improve their employability potential, achieve personal ambitions and help to their next step.
- To signpost and refer students who need support and document this, as per procedure.

**Progression**
- To ensure all students progress to a positive destination.
- Undertake networking & marketing activities, including social media, to keep up to date with progression opportunities.
- Monitor student's programme end date to ensure progression is timely.
- Undertake tracking of students who have left programme and provide on-going support

**Abilities**
- Excellent communicator
- To persuade & influence others and deal with conflict/challenging behaviour
- Highly motivated
- Innovative & solution focused
- To be persistent & tenacious
- To work to targets & deadlines
- To remain positive, with a bubbly, engaging personality
- To develop others
- Excellent organisation & planning skills
- To work on own initiative
- To be a Juniper ambassador
- Able to build a rapport with target group but also communicate professionally with employers/progression sources

If this is you then please click**apply