Practice Placement Coordinator: Sponsorship Available

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Job summary

The EMAS Education Team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Practice Placement Team.

The Practice Placement Coordinator will play a key role in supporting high-quality practice learning across the Trust, ensuring apprentices, students and learners are effectively supported throughout their development.

Working within the Organisational Learning Directorate, the post holder will coordinate practice placements and learner allocations, support apprenticeship programmes and recruitment activity, and act as a key link between Education, operational teams and Higher Education Institution partners.

The role will also support the continued expansion of our Practice Educator programmes, helping to ensure sufficient trained Practice Educators are available to support the Trust’s workforce growth.

Working closely with the Practice Placement Manager, education colleagues, operational managers and external partners, the post holder will contribute to quality assurance, governance and continuous improvement, helping EMAS provide an excellent learner experience and a sustainable future workforce.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will coordinate practice placements for apprentices, students and learners, working closely with operational teams, Practice Educators and Higher Education Institution partners to ensure a high-quality learning experience.

You will support apprenticeship programmes, coordinate the delivery of Practice Educator courses, assist with recruitment and interview activities, and help maintain placement capacity to meet the Trust’s growing workforce needs. You will also contribute to quality assurance, governance and the continuous improvement of practice learning, playing a key role in developing the future clinical workforce at EMAS.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Diploma Level or equivalent

Desirable

  • NVQ level 4 or equivalent management qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum of 2 years experience in the use of GRS in a resourcing role.
  • Experience of database management
  • Experience of managing own time, using initiative, prioritising workload and working to deadlines.
  • Team working experience
  • Experience of people management issues in relation to rostering requirements
  • Preparation of reports and presentations.
  • Experience of training others.

Desirable

  • Minimum of 1 years experience in a GRS administration role.
  • Experience of Line Management and day to day supervision of direct reports
  • Experience of using SQL programming language to interrogate databases

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • A thorough understanding of Trust policies and procedures relating to staff time and attendance, improving working lives and equality and diversity.
  • A working knowledge of Working Time Directives and , General Data Protection
  • Demonstrable understanding of Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions in relation to (but not limited to) NHS working time conditions including unsocial hours and average holiday pay.
  • Working knowledge of the various types of rostering arrangements as operated within the Trust.
  • Very competent IT, literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Developed problem solving skills.
  • Competent verbal and written communications skills.
  • Able to handle competing demands.

Desirable

  • Experience of testing and validating systems or processes

Personal attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work autonomously on own initiative as well as part of a wider team.
  • Displays a calm, sensitive and diplomatic manner in interpersonal relationships.
  • Ability to carry out duties remotely from home (home working), making best use of technology available.
  • Determination to meet targets.

Desirable

  • Ability to work flexibly across the Trust service area.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 18 October 2026

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