Placement Liaison Coordinator

Job Details

Job location: Home-based

Role: Administration | Customer Service | Veterinary

Position: Full time | Part time

Closes in: 12 days (Friday 01 August 2025)

Job Description:

Placement Liaison Coordinator
Salary range - £26,000 to £28,000 (FTE)
Location: Home-based
Working hours: Full-time or part-time - hours by agreement

We are looking to recruit a friendly and enthusiastic Placement Liaison Coordinator. In this role, you will be sourcing placements for our students and delivering a high level of customer service by building and maintaining solid working relationships with employers.

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 as would being a Registered Veterinary Nurse however none of these are essential, as full training will be provided.

The College of Animal Welfare is the UK’s largest veterinary nursing training provider amongst other programmes. 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 placement service has been established for over 25 years and covers the whole of the UK. We support under graduates, Diploma students and apprentices by working closely with employers offering excellent practical skills training in a real working environment.

Role:
The key purpose of the role will cover the following areas:
- Source Student Placements for veterinary nurse undergraduates and non-employed students
- Seek apprenticeship positions for students attending the college
- Assist students and apprentices facing redundancy find replacement employment
- Recruitment of learners including interview preparation, training and CV creation
- Support the College’s use of the government’s ‘Find Apprenticeship Training’ website
- Student placements administration
- Information, Advice and Guidance to learners and employers

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 a pro-rata 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 leave on an increasing scale up to 12 days per rolling 12 months
- We offer reimbursement of authorised work-related expenses
- Required travel to Centres (other than your contractual place of work), train travel and hotel accommodation pre-booked and paid for, will be reimbursed.
- Life Assurance - equivalent to 4 x your annual salary
- Jury service – payment for lost days reimbursed

To apply:

For further details, an application pack or support with your application, please contact Rebecca Williams at jobs@caw.ac.uk or 01480 422060.

We also welcome suggestions on how we can improve accessibility, as we’re committed to ensuring everyone can access the information they need.

Things to consider:
- 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

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