Work Experience Coordinator

Hours per week, 36.5, term time only.  

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
1, Belgrave Road
Birmingham
B12 9FF
Telephone number: 0121 446 2232  

Job start date: As soon as possible.

The Work Experience Coordinator will form part of the Student Services team and will play a pivotal role supporting the Work-related Learning and Employability Manager to continue to develop and deliver a comprehensive Work Experience Strategy across the college, which supports students to successfully achieve their personal aspirations and prepare them for their chosen career. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience of developing and delivering Work Experience programmes for young people, along with the knowledge and skills set to build and maintain collaborative relationships with local business and employers. You will also have the confidence and ability to engage with employers and students. If you are successful, you would play a vital role in the College, which is graded as ‘outstanding’ in all categories by Ofsted. We excel in providing a broad, inclusive and high-quality education to all of our learners, which has resulted in some of the highest levels of progression to Higher Education in the sector.

In 2023, students at Joseph Chamberlain College achieved outstanding exam results. Our College is situated within easy reach of Birmingham City Centre, in a state-of-the-art building with superbly equipped classrooms and outstanding facilities. We were featured in the 2019 Parliamentary Review for best practice in further education for the second time and we have been awarded the Teachers’ Development Trust (TDT) Silver Award for our comprehensive package of innovative and high impact professional development.

If you are aspirational for all young people and want to play a part in shaping their futures, we would really like to hear from you.

For job details and an application pack please click here or email: HR@jcc.ac.uk

Alternatively, please call 0121 446 2255 for an application pack or if you require the information in a different format.  

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.  

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.  

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.  

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  

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