Are you ready for a new challenge? Are you confident and enthusiastic? Do you enjoy communicating with members of your profession? Do you enjoy supporting others to develop their skills and confidence? We might have the perfect opportunity for you!

The College of Animal Welfare is the UK’s largest veterinary nursing training providers, amongst other programmes, operating from five sites across the country and have a growing number of satellite centres. We aim to inspire our students through high quality support to maximise their potential and accomplish their ambition of joining our profession. Due to the continued success and growth of the College we are looking to increase our team involved with supporting training practices and their students both in the workplace and in the college environment based at our Edinburgh Centre. This role offers good variety, will allow you to support the profession through raising quality of workplace training and assessment on both the Level 3 Diploma and BSc degree programmes.

The ideal candidate will be friendly, professional, self-motivated, well organised, have excellent communication skills, enjoy working as part of a team yet be able to work independently.

So what are the key areas of the role?

• Supporting students and their Clinical Coaches to understand and achieve the requirements of the awarding organisation and programme of study
• Maintaining the high standards of competence through monitoring of portfolio evidence
• Providing high quality Information, Advice & Guidance to help students and stakeholders make informed decisions
• Ensuring that students are safe and their well-being is being considered in the workplace and all aspects of college life
• Promoting the College, our programmes and our profession
• Ensuring that our students are treated fairly and have equality of opportunity in a unbiased environment.

Why join us?

Due to the nature of the organisation, successful candidates would be joining a company that encourages personal development and nurtures ambition.

You will receive an annual holiday allowance of 25 days per year (with 8 additional days for bank holidays), and the option to ‘buy or sell’ additional holiday and a paid birthday day off! You will also be able to join our Group Pension Scheme and have access to our Employee Assistance Programme. We offer reimbursement of authorised expenses for work-related activities (e.g. train travel/London allowance) and hotel accommodation pre-booked and paid for, when overnight stays may be required.

Other Staff Benefits:

• Sick leave on an increasing scale up to 12 days per rolling 12 months
• We offer reimbursement of authorised work-related expenses professional registration memberships.
• Required travel to Centres (other than your contractual place of work), train travel and hotel accommodation pre-booked and paid for, will be reimbursed.
• Death in Service equivalent to 4 x your annual salary
• Jury service – lost days reimbursed

For further details including salary and hours or to request an application pack please contact: Rachel Batten, Human Resources Administrator on our jobs email below.

The College of Animal Welfare is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. All successful applicants will undertake a DBS Check.