Description
Liaise with employers and young people to organise vocational work placements, organising, monitoring, assessing and evaluating students’ performance in the vocational setting in accordance with the principles of assessment of the Sector Skills Council, including assessing the suitability and safety of students work placements.
This role is 18.5 hours a week and 52 weeks per year.
Main Responsibilities and Duties:
The following is an indication of the type and level of the main priorities expected of this role as directed by your line manager and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties or tasks:
1. Develop, maintain and update a database of placement providers, commercial and public sector vocational settings able to support students in the satisfaction of their required hours and assessment, establishing strong professional relationships with employers/ settings to develop employability challenges, mentoring, work experience and volunteering opportunities for learners.
2. Assess the placement and volunteering opportunities, including visits to providers on behalf of College/ Departmental staff and students, ensuring risk assessments are in place and satisfactory, liaising with study programme coordinators (SPC) on requirements for any mandatory course placements.
3. Develop and maintain records of the work experience undertaken by students following the requirements of the Funding agencies, liaising with SPCs and Curriculum Managers (CM) to develop sessions for students about the expectations of placements and the onus of responsibility. This will include liaising with and advising students on issues relating to their placement, e.g. dress code, activities, maintaining paperwork and supporting students in ensuring placement plans are in place and valid
4. Maintain the flow of communication with placement providers to ensure work experience documentation is fully explained and responses to queries are effectively managed, conducting surveys of relevant settings in regard to needs and willingness to provide work experience opportunities including benefits for both learners and employers, following College procedures in relation to work experience and volunteering placements, contributing to the development of relevant administrative systems, including safeguarding, H&S, risk assessment, communication with employers, curriculum and learners.
5. Register as a DBS counter-signatory and check completed forms, and assist students with the completion of DBS checks
6. Monitor and evaluate work experience or volunteering placements by receiving and collating written review sheets from students, employers and SPCs, providing this information to the line manager in an appropriate format and maintain an up to date knowledge of current work experience specifications documentation.
7. Undertake assessment of students in vocational settings in line with the requirement of the qualification being undertaken, completing the required documentation and recording results, liaising with the SPC and student following assessments/ visits, creating and maintaining a diary of visits to and assessments of students, liaising with placement providers in relation to timing, expectations and concessions required during visits/ assessments.
8. Represent the faculty /department at internal and external events in relation to vocational expectations and participate in MKC staff development and training schemes as appropriate, in order to maintain College and awarding body requirements with regards to CPD. This will include undertaking lead internal verifier duties when required by the faculty.
Application Requirements
To ensure compliance with safeguarding guidelines, all applicants must complete the application form in full. This includes providing:
* A full employment history from the time you left full-time education, with details of any gaps in employment explained.
* Information on all relevant education and qualifications.
Please note, incomplete applications will not be considered. Your co-operation helps us maintain the highest standards of safety and care for children and young people.
Benefits
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A GOOD local College for Maidstone and Medway
Every year over 6000 students from Medway, Maidstone and beyond choose MidKent College to continue their studies and prepare for their future career.
Our sparkling campuses in Maidstone and Medway boast some of the best vocational training facilities in the country as well as staff and student social zones and more. Our University Centre Maidstone campus provides a valuable higher education and professional training centre for Maidstone, including South East Institute of Technology and the College's Home Energy Centre. Additionally, in September 2024 we proudly opened Medway School of Arts in Chatham's Historic Dockyard.
All of our campuses benefit from ongoing investment programmes so that we can provide fantastic learning environments for our students.
For over 100 years we've been providing high-quality technical training and apprenticeships in a range of subject areas.
In October 2024 Ofsted rated the College as 'Good'.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to the safeguarding of all our students and staff. This means everyone who works here is required to actively protect them from preventable harm. Our recruitment and selection process includes background checks which will be undertaken on the successful applicant, including an enhanced DBS, and in your application you are required to demonstrate how you meet the Colleges requirements on safeguarding.
The background checks will be carried-out in accordance with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice. The DBS helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. We operate in accordance with the DBS Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy. You can access both of these documents at https://www.midkent.ac.uk/about-us/policy-and-privacy-information
MidKent College is committed to safeguarding and the Prevent Agenda and to promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. MKC complies fully with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice regarding the correct handling, storage, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information, and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.
Since the post for which you are applying may involve unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, it will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or young people. Candidates who are preliminarily offered a position for such posts will be required to disclose details, cautions (including final warnings or reprimands), or convictions which are not "protected" as defined by the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 or any other matters that may be relevant to their suitability to work for the College including sanctions relating to work with children in any country outside of the UK.
Please note that the College is unable to consider an application further if the candidate declines to complete the Disclosure form.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
As a proud user of the disability confident scheme the College is committed to equal opportunities and celebrates the diversity of staff and students. As part of our commitment to the scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
Important Notice for Applicants: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Requirement
To ensure the security of our college systems and protect personal / sensitive information, all staff are now required to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should your application be successful. This mandated security measure helps reduce the risk of unauthorised access aligned to our cyber security requirements.
Should your application be successful, MFA can be enabled using the Microsoft Authenticator app on your personal or college mobile device. Alternatively, you may request a YubiKey, a physical security key that plugs into your allocated laptop or desktop.