Location: Working across Dorset and Somerset with travel across the South West region.
Full Time: 37 hours per week
Salary: £31,200

Can you help to deliver safe work experience placements for young people?
CSW Group have an exciting opportunity to support the Work Experience team.

The post will involve undertaking Duty of Care checks of employers who take young people on work experience placements. This will involve working within set timescales and to deadlines to assess the suitability of placements on behalf of schools, colleges and learning providers.

You will ensure employer premises adequately meet the standards of Health & Safety for students on placement and assess if a DBS is required of an employer before a placement commences.

You will provide support to our Services to Education Manager and guidance to our Work Experience Administrators.

Essential:

• You will hold a NEBOSH Certificate or Diploma, or an equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Demonstrable evidence of recent CPD and knowledge of current HSE legislation.
• Be professional and take a customer-centric approach.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong ICT skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage own workload and deadlines.
• Full driving licence and own car.
• Evidence of working both independently and as a team.
• Evidence of working with KPI’s, deadlines and targets.

Desirable but not essential:

• Understanding of issues faced by young people and employers undertaking work experience.
• Understanding of school/college work experience programmes.
• Understanding of importance of safeguarding young people.

Join Our Team
Why work for CSW?
We are people developers who strive to build better futures for our customers.
We are a not-for-profit social enterprise who inspire, develop and support people, communities & organisations to make positive change through sustainable high-quality services.

Some of the key benefits of working with CSW identified by our people are:

• Flexibility, work life balance and job variety
• Strong values, team working and social and community impact
•  Attractive benefits including 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a paid charity day, paid birthday leave, a high employer contributing pension scheme, an independent employee assistance program for healthcare and welfare support and a cycle to work scheme.

If you feel that you can bring something special to our team and can be part of the exciting future of this department, then we look forward to your application.

An application pack is available to download from our website www.cswgroup.co.uk
Alternatively, please e-mail recruitment@cswgroup.co.uk. Details will be made available in alternative formats upon request.

Vacancy reference: 2003
Closing date: 9.00 a.m. 5th June 2023

Through its work CSW Group actively safeguard and promote the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and all employees and volunteers and others working on behalf of the company are required to share this commitment. Successful individuals will be required to undergo full vetting checks including an enhanced disclosure by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.