Placement Liaison Coordinator
Job Details
Job location: Home-based
Role: Administration | Customer Service | Education
Position: Full time
Closes in: 5 days (Thursday 12 March 2026)
Job Description:
The College of Animal Welfare is the UK’s largest veterinary nursing training providers, amongst other programmes. Here at the college, we inspire our students to accomplish their ambitions and reach their full potential to make their dream careers of working with animals and joining a profession, become reality!
The College of Animal Welfare has a history of being a pioneer with a number of unique achievements. Operating from five sites across the country and two satellite centres, we are a college working towards our vision of ‘Providing innovative learning opportunities for the promotion of animal welfare.
We are looking to recruit a friendly and enthusiastic Placement Liaison Coordinator. In this role, you will be sourcing placements for our Veterinary Nursing students, delivering a high level of customer service and building and maintaining solid working relationships.
Our ideal candidate should have a confident telephone manner, excellent administration skills and be able to work to deadlines. Sales or recruitment experience would be an advantage however not essential, as full training will be provided.
Role:
The key purpose of the role will cover the following areas:
- Source Student Placements
- Administration in line with Student Placements
- Information, Advice and Guidance to students and employers
- Administration cover within the student services team as required
Why join us?
Due to the nature of the organisation, successful candidates would be joining a company that encourages personal development and nurtures ambition.
You will receive an annual holiday allowance of 25 days per year (with 8 additional days for bank holidays), and the option to ‘buy or sell’ additional holiday and a paid birthday day off! You will also be able to join our Group Pension Scheme and have access to our Employee Assistance Programme. We offer reimbursement of authorised expenses for work-related activities (e.g. train travel/London allowance) and hotel accommodation pre-booked and paid for, when overnight stays may be required.
Other Staff Benefits:
- Sick pay on an increasing scale up to 12 days per rolling 12 months
- We offer reimbursement of authorised work-related expenses including professional registration fees.
- Required travel to Centres (other than your contractual place of work), train travel and hotel accommodation pre-booked and paid for, will be reimbursed.
- Death in Service equivalent to 4 x your annual salary
- Jury service – payment for lost days reimbursed
For further details including salary and hours or to request an application pack please contact: Rebecca Williams, Human Resources Administrator on 01480 422060 or email: jobs@caw.ac.uk.
- We reserve the right to make an offer before the closing date.
- CAW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All successful applicants will undertake a DBS Check.
- CAW undertakes not to discriminate unlawfully either directly or indirectly against a job applicant or one of its own employees. CAW is committed to equal opportunities: appointments are open to members of the community on an equal basis.
If you have any special requirements or need adjustments to be made for the interview process, please let us know by contacting Rebecca Williams in our HR team at jobs@caw.ac.uk
Download: Job Description
Applications and Enquiries
To apply for any of the vacancies please download the job application form and send it to HR via email or post.
Application form: Electronic version (Word) | Printable version (PDF)
Email: jobs@caw.ac.uk
Post: The College of Animal Wefare, Headland House, Chord Business Park, London Road, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire PE29 2BQ
If you would like an informal chat about working with us, please call HR on 01480 422060.
The College of Animal Welfare is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All successful applicants will undertake a Disclosure DBS Check. The College undertakes not to discriminate unlawfully either directly or indirectly against a job applicant or one of its own employees. The College is committed to equal opportunities: appointments are open to members of the community on an equal basis.
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