Placements Officer

We are looking for a hardworking, ambitious individual to join the busy Placements team within our Faculty, supporting students from our Department for Health.

About the role

This role is available on a part-time basis (0.9 FTE). 

Placement Officers play a vital role in researching and developing opportunities to generate new placements at home and abroad, as well as maintaining positive relationships with current providers and partner institutions, ensuring that services are effective and adapt to changing circumstances. 

You will act as a point of contact for undergraduate and postgraduate students, staff, partners and employers, dealing with enquiries and providing guidance on applications. 

For more information, see the attached job description and person specification. 

For an informal chat please get in touch with:

Martin Gore at mg906@bath.ac.uk or Victoria Maskell at vmm35@bath.ac.uk.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent organisational skills
• Good use of initiative
• The ability to multi-task
• The ability to prioritise a high workload
• Good awareness of Employability within the Higher Education sector 
• Strong communications skills and the ability to engage positively with students
• Interest in and knowledge of sport and careers within sport/health

About the Faculty

Our teaching excellence and real world experience encourage wider thinking. 

We help our students realise their potential and make a positive impact on society. 

We offer a diverse range of undergraduate courses covering economics, education, psychology, policy and languages. 

We also offer a variety of taught and research-based postgraduate courses, from master's to doctorate qualifications. 

Learn more about our Faculty and its programmes at http://www.bath.ac.uk/hss/.

What we can offer you:

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work.

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