Industry Placement Officer: Childcare • Education and Care

Industry Placement Officer:
Childcare
• Education and Care

Location: Sunderland

Post Type: Full Time Term Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Monday 23 February 2026

Reference: 0027-26

Sunderland College has been delivering highly successful courses for more than 20 years and is one of the largest providers of post-16 education in the North East with approximately 14,300 students.

The College has two campuses across the city of Sunderland, offering a wide range of academic and vocational provision for school leavers and adults. The College aims to develop and positively shape lives, communities, and the economy through teaching, learning and development of skills. Our students consistently achieve outstanding results and Sunderland College has been ranked in the top 25% in the country for student achievement rates.

In October 2024, we were ranked as Ofsted outstanding, and we are proud of our diverse student and staff community that provide our students with bespoke education pathways to help them achieve their future career goals.

If you are enthusiastic, forward thinking and enjoy working a fast‑paced environment then this role could be perfect for you. Working within the curriculum area of Education, Children and Families you will find yourself part of an ambitious team.

The successful candidate would join a dynamic and innovative organisation who work closely with a wide range of local employers to enable learners to develop both academic and practical work skills in preparation for employment or higher education. Our vision is excellence and our students are at the heart of everything we do.

Applicants should have experience of employer engagement with relevant industrial experience to assist in the development, monitoring and operation of the work industry placement.

The job role will involve:

• Arranging appropriate placements for learners studying at Level 2 and T Level programmes in line with awarding body stipulations.
• Carrying out placement visits and assessments, particularly regarding competency on students as a requirement of the awarding organisation.
• Liaising with students, staff and placement supervisors to arrange assessment visits.
• Arranging meetings both in college and placement to discuss placement issues.
• Communicating effectively with placements, parents and the wider team to ensure students are supported to achieve.
• Applicants should be able to demonstrate, in their personal statement, practical examples of how they fulfil the person specification.

• Work closely with Industry to source high quality work placements to satisfy the Curriculum plan student numbers and ensure all placements have health and safety risk assessments and public liability insurance and are aware of the college requirements re. supervision and Health and Safety.
• Liaising with students, staff and placement supervisors to outline awarding organisation requirements for placements and arrange observational visits arranging meetings both in college and placement to discuss placement with individual students.
• Carrying out assessments on students in placement as a requirement of the awarding organisation and completing required documentation for External Quality Assurance. As this role includes placement visits, you must hold a driving licence and have access to your own vehicle.
• The role will also include some face to face delivery in class with students developing skills and knowledge needed in the sector.
• Work alongside Curriculum Managers, Personal Development Tutors and students to appropriately match career pathways / student timetabling and geographic area with placement opportunities.
• Maintain and enhance employer relationships and curriculum support with the facilitation of employer events.
• Maintain college internal systems including the tracking of students hours on Pro Monitor, Grofar and the college CRM system to monitor and track student performance. This will also include maintaining student records such as DBS and references following application through central admissions.

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