Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Up to 31st July 2026)(Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-WT&E-15879-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Work Experience Lead
NHS AfC: Band 6
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
Choices College is a national Specialist Post-16 College providing a person-centred, Supported Internship, Study Programme for young adults with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Through the course, 16–24-year-olds gain work experience, develop independence skills, and increase their employability. They also study English, maths and employability qualifications.
The College is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and the commissioning Local Authorities through individual Education, Health, and Care Plans (EHCP).
The college team deliver bespoke, tailored support to each Intern, and employment opportunities are matched to the individual’s skills. Choices College aims to empower Interns and build their confidence as individuals in the workplace, whilst also offering life experience beyond their home and prior educational environments.
This role involves supporting students develop their pre-internship skills, experience and their Preparing for Adulthood knowledge. The role covers London and the South with some travel around the region required.
Main duties of the job
This post would be responsible for working directly with regional schools and colleges to ensure young people with learning disabilities, difficulties and/or Autism are able to access Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) learning and supported work experience in the NHS. The role will involve planning management and delivery of experience across a range of NHS and partners organisations.
The work experience lead will:
· Be part of a National Transitions Team.
· Plan, co-ordinate, deliver and monitor a broad range of complex tasks or programmes of work to ensure the expected outcomes of Choices College.
· Manage, support and oversee the work of the Transition Team, acting as a role model in terms of delivering a culture of high performance, effective time management and flexibility in delivering workloads and priorities
· Engage with key stakeholders to ensure widening participation and engagement with Education providers and NHS organisations
· Engage with a wide range of stakeholders across range of public sector areas.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to post graduate level or equivalent level of knowledge of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Teacher training qualification or relevant experience of delivering training
- Experience of working on supported internships or work experience for young people with learning difficulties disabilities or Autism
Desirable criteria
- TSI Trained Training in Systematic Instruction
- • Evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an educational setting supporting young people.
- Experience of developing placements suitable for students with learning disability difficulty or Autism
- Track record of achievement in supporting people with learning difficulties/autism into achieving employment
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Choices College working methodology and the employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities.
- Track record in stakeholder management with the ability to influence key decision makers and drive change
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- A willingness to challenge and to be open to receiving challenge seeing and valuing different perspectives
- Maintains the highest standards of integrity in all interactions being aware of the impact of own behaviour on others
- Sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
Skills, Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to effectively manage a programme of delivery, across schools colleges and local area providing safe work experience placements for 16-24 year olds with LLDD or autism identified need via an EHCP
- Ability to establish, communicate and maintain effective working relationships in a confident manner with colleagues, partners and schools, colleges, parents and young people with learning disabilities, difficulties or Autism
- Ability to plan develop and deliver classroom teaching on the educational elements of the programme and where required present in local schools parents groups council forums.
- Ability to plan develop and deliver classroom teaching on the educational elements of the programme and where required present in local schools parents groups council forums.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lindsay McCafferty
- Job title
- Regional Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07780 225297
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