Placements Officer

Professional Services

Learning, Teaching and Student Experience

Salary: £27,644 to £29,959 per annum

Post Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 23 February 2026

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Reference: HR0192630

This job is only available to University of Bradford staff. It may be released externally should we not appoint internally.

University of Bradford

At the University of Bradford, our focus is on creating the conditions for social, cultural, and economic impact. We are committed to social inclusion. Our work to expand opportunity and enable students to reach their potential has led to us topping the Social Mobility Index of English universities for the last four years. Our University Strategy sets out our ambitions for 2025, which we will achieve by using our proud heritage as a springboard and remaining steadfast in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Safeguarding

The University of Bradford is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and Adults at Risk through robust safer recruitment practices.

What you will be doing:

• Act as a first point of contact for students on placement, dealing with complaints and resolving complex cases, providing general advice, guidance, information and support.
• Provide information on University regulations or PSRB requirements relating to placements to both students and staff.
• Be responsible for the maintenance of the student records, ensuring that the Student Record System (SITS) and Placements Management System and other associated systems are kept fully up to date in accordance with University processes.
• Provide support and information to academic staff associated with placement delivery, in particular Placement Tutors, including assessed reasons and a rationale to enable decision making where necessary.
• Maintain an administrative overview of all students on placement, ensuring relevant processes are adhered to.
• Support the provision of accurate placement information to the website, including maintaining web pages where required.
• Maintain an administrative overview of all aspects of placements, and support the delivery of key placement management processes.
• Order materials required for placements as required, working with the university financial systems and regulations to complete purchase orders, reconcile and process invoices as needed to ensure outstanding commitments are cleared.
• Undertake all key administrative process associated with placements

Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience of working in an administrative role
• Experience of using a variety of IT packages to a high standard, including word processing packages, spreadsheets and databases
• Experience of taking minutes and providing information at meetings
• Experience of understanding and working to a range of established procedures and regulations.

Celebrating Diversity – The University of Bradford

At the University of Bradford, we recognise and embrace people that work in diverse ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

In Return we Offer:

• 25 days holiday and 13 statutory and customary days (taken at Easter and Christmas).
• Family-friendly policies
• Great campus facilities including:
• Unique fitness centre
• Eye clinic
• Physiotherapy & sports rehabilitation,
• Counselling & mental health services
• On-site nursery
• Food & drink outlets
• Generous employer contribution pension schemes
• Generous benefit schemes, including car leasing, cycle to work, holiday purchase, home & technology scheme and shopping discounts

Find more information about the many other benefits, including salary sacrifice schemes and campus nursery.

Additional Information:

If you would like to find out more or are interested in applying, we would love to hear from you.