Placement Team Leader – Maternity Cover

Birmingham Metropolis College is an establishment with a proud heritage and a vastly formidable future, devoted to enabling all our college students to rework their lives and obtain their fullest potential. Pupil and Tutorial Providers are at the moment recruiting for the position of Placement Group Chief, to affix our newly established College Pupil Centres. The Directorate is chargeable for making certain that college students have a wonderful expertise and gives companies throughout the scholar and educational lifecycle from enrolment to commencement, protecting every little thing from wellbeing companies to making sure new programs are arrange accurately. That is an thrilling alternative and can swimsuit an skilled supervisor, that enjoys working in a dynamic setting centered on bettering college students and stakeholder experiences.

As a Placements Group Chief, you’ll lead the crew offering help for scholar placements. Our Placements Group are a part of a dynamic and evolving panorama of practice-learning which reaches past our many companions into placements inside communities throughout the area.  Placement exercise accounts for a major proportion of a scholar’s course when finding out an expert diploma and is crucial to making sure our college students have the related alternative to realize experiences and the required abilities for his or her chosen career. The submit holder will work collaboratively with placement leads to make sure enterprise and help companies are efficient, environment friendly, and sustainable in assembly the wants of our college students, employees, and stakeholders. 

This submit relies at our Metropolis South Campus and is for a 9-month maternity cowl Fastened Time period Contract.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by our subsidiary firm BCU Assist Providers Restricted, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham Metropolis College. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who want to enter the LGPS scheme can be in a position to take action, and can be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College instantly

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent folks to affix us in taking us on the subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, attaining vital academic achieve and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to affix us. Come and be a part of the subsequent thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to rework their lives and to attain their potential. By our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the planet, we not solely help people to rework their lives, however we additionally play an element in remodeling society.

Positioned within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of creating, relationship again to our origins in 1843 after we have been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by innovation and its utility by information change, and of artistic analysis and apply, right this moment finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is dwelling to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students replicate this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to make it possible for that is additionally mirrored in our broader college neighborhood. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our employees. Our employees and scholar neighborhood is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we expect otherwise, and we construct neighborhood. 

We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, repeatedly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all points of our operations. We imagine that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we’ll empower one another to achieve our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is positioned in one of the crucial culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encircling area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional obstacles that our employees and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of employees and college students from all backgrounds inside larger schooling.  To reveal this, we’ve signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to indicate our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the Prime 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Conscious Employer, which implies we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our employees, and we’ve additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by scholar psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger schooling and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for almost 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis stuffed with vitality and enthusiasm and is a good place to stay and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, town is well accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Avenue station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new fast rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Avenue Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and can be one of the crucial environmentally pleasant stations on the planet.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation for the reason that earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is dwelling to an inter-disciplinary neighborhood of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to firms of all sizes to spice up progress by innovation to deal with industrial and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to lovely historic buildings and the long-lasting Library of Birmingham. It additionally has wonderful live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It’s also dwelling to the Alexander Stadium, which is the beautiful new dwelling for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many fundamental occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College employees and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene gives one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Avenue on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

Town additionally gives a terrific place to buy, being dwelling the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous dwelling of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is dwelling to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Faculty of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham provide a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in attaining the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the rules that unite the way in which we work collectively and for our college students.