Work Experience Co-ordinator - St Helens, United Kingdom - St Helen Chamber

St Helen Chamber

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St Helens, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We're looking for a talented Work Experience Co-ordinator to work for us.

We want to recruit someone with skills to organise work placement opportunities for 16-24 year olds on Traineeships and Study programmes.

We are seeking a passionate and motivational individual to join our growing team to ensure high quality work placement opportunities are available for our young people and that these are designed to develop learners' knowledge skills and behaviours to help them progress into employment opportunities.

If that's you then you could be exactly what we're looking for.

The Role:

To organise and co-ordinate work placement opportunities for all learners on Traineeships and Study programmes across all Chamber sites.

You will also be required to:

Liaise with employers to identify suitable work placement and apprenticeship opportunities for 16-24 year old learners
Build sustainable relationships with employers to develop new opportunities
Ensure regular employer and learner reviews are conducted ensuring learner progress is monitored and developed throughout their programme
Ensure learners are well equipped to progress into apprenticeship and employment opportunities by providing ongoing support
Deliver and develop group sessions to prepare young people for their work placement opportunities
Conduct Health and Safety visits for new employers

In addition, you'll need to:

Be experienced in working with learners from disadvantaged backgrounds
Have a teaching qualification at Level 3 or above or willingness to work towards
Have a track record of planning and delivering training to a diverse group of clients with a particular focus on 1624 year olds.

Does that sound like you? If so, we'd love to see your CV.

The Package:

Salary:
up to £26,000 per annum

Hours: 37 per week - Monday to Friday

Contract:
Permanent

Benefits

Enhanced sick pay
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 26 days after 2 years employment and 27 days after 4 years employment
An additional day's holiday for zero days sickness in a 12month period
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Welldesigned modern head office with good public transport links
Free town centre parking
Occupational Health support
Aviva pension statutory contributions to be made by employees, which can be increased. Enhanced employer contribution
Life assurance
Access to a range of learning opportunities including, elearning and in role development
Recognition awards

The Company:

We are a large dynamic social enterprise, with a long history of helping the business community create prosperity and opportunity in and around St Helens.

The Chamber is a unique organisation, a private sector led not-for-profit that works with local businesses, partners and the community to contribute to growth and regeneration.

We are an award-winning organisation.

We hold Gold Investors in People and are very proud to be one of the first organisations in the Northwest to be awarded the Liverpool City Region Fair Employers Charter.

We also are a Disability Confident employer and hold ISO9001 and Matrix accreditations

We employ more than 100 people in a wide variety of roles across three locations in St. Helens.

Some of our fantastic achievements in 2021 were:

794 people into jobs and learning
2200 people helped with career advice
121 new local businesses started with our support
850 business members one of the highest penetration rates in the UK
400 apprentices in learning
16 secondary school careers events delivered to 572 pupils

We believe that by living our core values of
Giving A Voice, Leading Edge, Driven by Quality and
Supportive and delivering on our strategic objectives, we will be able to contribute substantially to growth, investment, sustainability and opportunity for our local community.

Safeguarding
The Chamber is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, we expect all workers and employees to share this commitment.

Interested? If you think you're right for this role, then click the 'Apply' button and send us your CV.

_ This Post is Part Funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and supported under the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI)_

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