University of Brighton
Professional Placements Administrator - Internal Only
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School of Humanities and Social Science
Location: Brighton - Moulsecoomb
Salary: £27,319 to £30,378 per annum
Contract Length: 12 months
Closing Date: Sunday 30 August 2026
Reference: HU5030-26-174
We are seeking to recruit a Professional Placements Administrator to join our placements team within the College of Health, Education and Public Life to support our social work placements.
Your effective organisational skills will be key to providing placement support to our students in this busy and highly responsible role. We will want you to administer the placing of students in their settings, oversee payments to partners and check processes for compliance in accordance with professional and statutory requirements. Using your excellent customer service and communication skills you will act as a key point of contact for placement providers, students and academic staff, building effective working relationships and ensuring the smooth administration of placements.
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To Be Successful In This Position, You Should Have
- The skills to be able to build networks and maintain positive working relationships
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Good customer service experience, which will include excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to work quickly and accurately
- Strong IT skills, including a high level of competence in Microsoft Word and Excel, together with experience of maintaining databases and accurate records
This is a full-time fixed term role to cover a period of maternity leave, and we welcome applications from those looking to job share.
After initial training has been completed, and once agreed with your manager, you’ll have the option to work from home for part of the week as part of our agile working policy.
For an informal discussion to find out more about this role, please contact Julie Burkill, Practice Learning Administration Manager at J.Burkill@brighton.ac.uk
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The University is committed to an inclusive environment which embraces equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We particularly encourage male applicants and all those from Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The university is underrepresented by these groups at this job grade.
For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.
Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.
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