This is an exciting opportunity for a Work Experience Adviser to join our College and work within the Futures team. Here you will support the delivery of a high-quality Work Experience programme across the College. Working closely with the Work-related Learning and Employability Manager, you will help coordinate meaningful work placements and activities that enable students to develop employability skills, gain workplace insights, and progress towards their chosen careers.

You will play a key role in supporting learners to access and succeed in work experience opportunities, ensuring placements are well-matched to their aspirations and areas of study. The role involves building and maintaining positive relationships with local employers and partners, as well as confidently engaging with students to prepare them for the workplace. You will be committed to empowering students to make informed decisions about their future pathways, including employment, further education, or training.

If successful, you would play a vital role in the College, which is graded as ‘outstanding’ in all categories by Ofsted. Our College excels in providing a broad, inclusive and high-quality education to all of our learners, which has resulted in some of the highest levels of progression to Higher Education in the sector.  During the  recent exams, students at Joseph Chamberlain College achieved outstanding exam results.

Our College is situated within easy reach of Birmingham City Centre, in a state-of-the-art building with superbly equipped classrooms and outstanding facilities. We were featured in the Parliamentary Review for best practice in further education for the second time and we have been awarded the Teachers’ Development Trust (TDT) Silver Award for our comprehensive package of innovative and high impact professional development.

If you are aspirational for all young people and want to play a part in shaping their futures, we would really like to hear from you. 

Hours of work: Hours of work will be 36.5 hours over 5 days, during term time plus an additional 10 days which will be agreed by your line manager. You will very occasionally be required to work outside normal hours and this will be agreed by negotiation.

Salary: The salary for this post is paid on the Support Staff Pay Scale at point 11, currently £28634 per annum, FTE (Salary will be adjusted for full-time, and term time plus 10 days working).

Closing date: Friday 29^th May 2026 (to arrive no later than 12 noon).

For job details and to apply, please visit https://www.jcc.ac.uk/about-jcc/jobs/. If you have any queries regarding this role or require support with your application, please contact the HR team via e-mail HR@jcc.ac.uk or call 0121 446 2255.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to respect this commitment. The job description fully sets out the safeguarding responsibilities of the post.  All roles in the College have contact with children, and as such anyone that is employed by the College is considered to be engaged in regulated activities. Our roles are therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College is an equal opportunity employer, We welcome applications from all sections of the community.