About Us
The Sheffield College is a thriving further and higher education community, empowering around 13,000 learners each year to achieve their goals. Driven by our mission to transform lives through learning, we foster an inclusive environment — recognised through our 2026 Investors in Diversity Gold award and 3rd – place ranking in the National Centre for Diversity’s 2025 Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers.
About Us
The Sheffield College is a thriving further and higher education community, empowering around 13,000 learners each year to achieve their goals. Driven by our mission to transform lives through learning, we foster an inclusive environment — recognised through our 2026 Investors in Diversity Gold award and 3rd – place ranking in the National Centre for Diversity’s 2025 Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers.
About The Role
The Sheffield College is a large, vibrant and diverse further education college and we are proud of how the college contributes to transforming lives through learning by meeting local skills needs. We have high aspirations and standards for ourselves, and our learners and this role will be a key one in supporting the college’s mission to be consistently great and ensure our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, apprenticeships, further training, and university level courses. You will be responsible for ensuring learners gain high quality placements, experience of work and placements tasters, you will interact with the learner to jointly identify challenges and find solutions to overcome barriers to placements. You will be required to manage a case load of vacancies and candidates including shortlisting student applications and liaise with employers to set up student interviews. You will visit students in the workplace, offering training, support and assessment for the units within the qualification.
Main Responsibilities
- You will work closely with course leader, tutor mentor and the employer to ensure studentsare fully engaged with their learning and placement, fully stretched and able to achieve their goals.
- Support curriculum teams, students, and employers to plan and deliver industry placements, mandatory placements, and placement tasters
- Plan and coordinate employability development opportunities, guest speaking workshops and job ready activities for all students, working in collaboration with the Heads of Student Experience and other College colleagues, in accordance with the curriculum plan.
- Provide outstanding customer service to employers via established contact routes and site visits
- Deliver Work-related activity including a minimum of 300 hours classroom delivery, induction workshop including introduction to placements and placement tasters and relevant employability programmes e.g. MoveAhead, GetAhead and StayAhead
- Assess students’ readiness for the industry placement, agree and implement individual employability development plans, including the setting placement objectives linked to the qualification and populate student learner record on WRA
- Provide a range of professional, guidance and information to overcome challenges the student has, referring to specialists where appropriate
- Prepare learners for interview (supported by careers team where appropriate)
- Support the CAS Team to ensure collection of all student compliance documentation including the obtaining of DBS clearance, parental consent forms and signed student service level agreements and other compliance documentation prior to the placement commencing
- Manage first day in placement date including the completion of the 3-way induction paperwork (learner, employer, college)
- Act as a support for a caseload of “at-risk” students seeking new opportunities to complete their qualification or study programme
- Agree a work placed action plan with employers, curriculum teams and assess student performance against agreed plan.
- Monitor and assess the performance of students and keeping appropriate records to comply with college policy. This could include, amongst others, assessing presentations, practical demonstrations, group work etc. Recording the results of practical assessment, tracking progress, providing constructive feedback, and setting targets are integral to this element of the role
- Coordinate, plan and host internal events to promote employability development across all College students and the Employer Skills Academy programmes.
- Support and encourage the logging of placement hours on the WRA system
Cross-college Responsibilities
You may be required to participate in cross-college teams and working groups on key projects. You may need to attend relevant internal committees and groups. This could include preparing and presenting papers as required. You will act as a role model to colleagues, ensuring that the responsibilities of the post are carried out in line with the College’s FREDIE+ values and behaviours.
Student Related Responsibilities
- Anyone who has regular contact with children and young people in their day-to-day responsibilities must ensure they are safe. You will work with the Safeguarding Team, ensuring concerns regarding students/apprentices are shared in a timely, accurate manner
- You will be involved in supporting college open days, supporting during the exam season, student enrolment and any other required events
Other Responsibilities
All Staff Have a Responsibility To Ensure That The College Provides a Safe And Sustainable Environment For Students, Staff And Visitors. You Will Support This By
- Understanding and undertaking the specific responsibilities for their role as documented within the Health and Safety Policy and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with Data Protection Regulations.
- Ensure that environmental sustainability is a key consideration in the actions we take, working towards the college’s environmental strategy and net zero ambition.
If you want to find out more about the role please contact Joe Austin, Head of Student Experience at Joe.Austin@sheffcol.ac.uk
What we can offer you
As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of between £33,824 – £38,028 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.
Our Full Benefits Package
- SYPA – with a generous employer contribution
- Annual leave -30 Days (222 hours)+ 8 Bank Holidays(59.2 hours)-this includesa discretionary Christmas closure period
- Health and wellbeing support , including:
- Employee assistance programme through Bupa
- Occupational Health through PAM
- Free eye tests for VDU users
- Free parking is available at the majority of our campuses
- Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
- Continuous professional development opportunities
- A people ‑ focused working culture where you can grow and thrive
Further informationcan be foundon our Benefits and Career Development pages.
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident employer and are committed to removing barriers for applicants with a disability during our recruitment process, upon appointment and as an employee. Please review ourRecruitment Guidelines for Disabled Candidateswhich provides further information on reasonable adjustments and how the Disability Confident scheme works in practice. If you require any reasonable adjustments or any support at any point throughout the process, please contact jobs@sheffcol.ac.uk
Armed Forces Covenant
As part of our commitment through the Armed Forces Covenant , we’re pledged to support the Armed Forces Community. Recognising the value Personnel, Veterans and military families contribute to our community and country.
Safeguarding
We are an employer who is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. Successful applicants will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and will be subject to safer recruiting procedures. Further details on our safer recruiting procedures, including the employment of ex-offenders can be found here Safeguarding
Use of AI
Applicants may use AI tools to support the preparation of applications. However, applications must be an honest and accurate reflection of the applicant’s own skills, knowledge and experience. Applications found to contain misleading information or content presented as the applicant’s own work may be withdrawn from the recruitment process.
Closing date: 29/10/2026
Please be aware – If we have a high number of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy earlier.
As a Leader in Diversity employer, we encourage applications from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.
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