Social Work Placements Coordinator Part-Time 0.6 FTE

Purpose of the post:

Placements are at the core of LSBU’s Social Work qualifications and are an essential component of the professional accreditation to become a registered social worker. The practical experience undertaken by students throughout their study allows them to gain firsthand experience of service users and practitioners needs and apply classroom learning in a real world setting under experienced guidance.

Placements are delivered across public, private and voluntary sectors, and are identified and maintained through building close relationships with partners by our academics, administrative team and students.

This role is key to the successful delivery of student placements, the role will work alongside Social Work academics who have built a network of placement providers to ensure smooth operations and a high quality student and provider experience.

MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This role will support the effective delivery of placements for BA and MA Social Work degrees. This will include:

• Working with the Social Work academic team to manage existing and new placements, including involvement in quality assurance processes


• Effectively administering the placement database, practice educator database and matching database with accurate record keeping


• Maintain excellent relationships with placement providers


• Communicating clearly and in a timely manner with placement providers,  students, practice educators and tutors.


• Matching students with placements and practice educators, based on need and geography


• Contribute to the development of new practice placements


• Responding to placement provider and student enquiries delivering high quality customer service


• Creating provider and student FAQs and documentation such as handbooks


• Work with the Practice Learning Administrator to ensure accurate finance reconciliation


• Administer Practice Moderation and Readiness for Direct Practice Panels


• Update placement documents as directed


• Arrange meetings , workshops and conferences as required


• Minute meetings and book rooms as required


• Other reasonable activities to support the work of School of Allied and Community Health.    

Not applicable

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following essential (E) and desirable (D) criteria:

1. Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written. (E)


2. Commitment to high quality customer service and relationship building. (E)


3. IT and data management skills. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (E), experience of working with data. (D)


4. The ability and willingness to work flexibly as part of a team and to take initiative. (E)


5. Excellent organisational and administrative skills, demonstrating ability to work unsupervised generating high quality accurate work whilst prioritising a diverse workload to meet agreed deadlines. (E)


6. An understanding of, and commitment to equality and diversity and its practical application. (E)