37.5 hours per week (Remote and agile working is required as well as travel to placement providers)
Fixed term for 26 months (Secondment Opportunities will be considered for internal applicants; this would need to be agreed with your Line Manager)
Closing Date: 12th October 2025
Interview Date: 23rd October 2025
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
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Main duties of the job
* Raise awareness of T Levels throughout the system, educate and influence internal staff to support with industry placements (IPs)
* Build a live record of the system's capacity to support IPs
* Develop IPs for an array of settings including clinical and non-clinical linked to relevant T Levels
* Manage relationships and enable dialogue with all T Level providers in the ICS footprint
* Develop and implement policies, guidelines, toolkits and other associated governance to effectively identify, place and support IPs across the ICS
* Support ICS/Trusts to engage with local providers who are offering or considering offering T Levels
* Take responsibility for leading the planning and organising of Ips
* Facilitate IPs in T Levels across the system in response to localised student numbers
* Complete tasks that will enable and support placements which would otherwise be left to organisations to deliver
* Monitor placement progress and provide a point of contact for line managers and
* Work with the Department for Education to provide Monthly KPI data and evidence collection, case studies and to share good practice
* Monitoring of Department for Education budget spend against grant funding
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Eective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
Purpose
* This post will deliver a fixed term project funded by the Department for Education to establish a sustainable system wide operational strategy for T-Level engagement.
* The postholder will have responsibility for working collaboratively with colleagues across the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to raise the profile of T Levels and develop a high quality, diverse range of Industry Placements (IPs) for learners within our geographical footprint to access.
* The postholder will work in partnership with provider organisations to establish a sustainable system-wide operational strategy for T Level engagement that establishes and maintains employer/provider relationships and establishes clear pathways to employment within the NHS.
* Working with colleagues, support to establish and over time grow the number and breadth of industry placements (IPs) within the ICS, whilst establishing a quality framework for delivering and monitoring quality placements
* As a system lead for this project, the postholder will enable knowledge mobilisation and sharing of best practice across the system via steering groups, formal and informal check-ins and cross-system relationship building.
General
* Raise awareness of T Levels throughout the system, educate and influence internal staff to support with industry placements (IPs)
* Build a live record of the systems capacity to support IPs and develop this into a long-term process that can integrate with the ICS wider workforce considerations
* Develop IPs for an array of settings including clinical and non-clinical linked to relevant T Levels
* Manage relationships and enable dialogue with all T Level providers in the ICS footprint
* Develop and implement policies, guidelines, toolkits and other associated governance to effectively identify, place and support IPs across the ICS
* Support ICS/Trusts to engage with local providers who are offering or considering offering T Levels
Planning and Organisation
* Take responsibility for leading the planning and organising of Ips and relevant processes to support Trusts and learners
* Facilitate IPs in T Levels across the system in response to localised student numbers to meet the scale of the future demand- prioritising programmes in line with the workforce priorities of the various providers within the system. (e.g. prioritizing health, healthcare science and digital before routes such as engineering and manufacturing)
* Complete tasks that will enable and support placements which would otherwise be left to organisations to deliver- this could include activities such as standardized role profiles, interviewing and allocation of students, signing of agreements, induction, placement reviews, rotational placement coordination etc.
Reporting and monitoring
* Monitor placement progress and provide a point of contact for line managers and students during placements
* Work with the Department for Education to provide Monthly KPI data and evidence collection, case studies and to share good practice
* Monitoring of Department for Education budget spend against grant funding
RELATIONSHIPS
* The majority of relationship building will be external to the Trust due to this role being a system post, hosted within a Trust.
* Relationships will be required across all providers within the ICS, and are likely to include Widening Access and Participation teams, Practice Education teams, Heads of Departments, Service Leads, local authorities, schools and FE providers, DWO services, NHS England, Department for Education.
* Develop relationships with other pilot sites across England to share good practice and develop a sustainable framework for long term IP growth and development.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Ability and willingness to travel
* Ability and willingness to travel
Ability & willingness to attend events outside of core working hours e.g. evenings, weekends
* Ability & willingness to attend events outside of core working hours e.g. evenings, weekends
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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