Where to begin... It usually only takes me
10 minutes to get to the Training Partnership offices and once there it is
straight to work. If I’m not doing Work Placement Starts for students,
then I start the day off by checking my emails, usually it is confirmation from one of
our companies offering a placement to a student or requests for a specific
skill or project, which is always exciting. Then it’s a case of checking
through files and finding a work placement that matches the
trainees requirements - which quite often is a challenge, but always rewarding!
Once the students are placed there is paperwork to do sending out
Work Placement Agreements and making sure they all have the necessary Health
and Safety Details before they are placed. Then of course there is the
Itinerary to arrange so all the students know how and when they are going to
get to their Companies on their first day! So important when you are in a new
country!
We have Welcome Meetings most weeks,
normally in the afternoons but when there are a lot of students it could be
mornings too! Some students like to have a UK bank account and need to be
taken to the Bank to obtain English Bank Accounts.
There are also Team Meetings to attend to
catch up on the week’s events, which are always interesting and give us the
opportunity to check on every one of our trainees. Occasionally there are
problems to deal with, so listening to the students and trying to resolve, to the
best of my ability, their worries regarding work is an important part of my
role! These are the main tasks that fill my days at work – believe me,
life here is never dull – challenging and hectic are the main adjectives I
would use; however, as busy as we are I wouldn't change a thing.
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