Duties & Responsibilities
There are five key partners in the successful delivery of work experience, Students, School, Employer, Parent and Central Organisers. All play a unique role; all have specific duties and responsibilities within the delivery chain.
The school should:
- Ensure their duty of care
- Have a named person responsible for co-ordinating work experience
- Provide quality training for all staff involved in the work experience process
- Make the student aware of the opportunities available for work experience
- Allow the student to make a reasoned choice of appropriate placement appropriate to his/her needs
- Be responsive to the needs of female and male students from diverse backgrounds and of diverse ability and work with providers to design placements which are flexible and accessible to a wide range of students
- Prepare the student for the placement/interview
- Support the student and placement provider during the placement
- Visit the student during the placement period allowing time to review the placement with the supervisor and student
- Provide 24 hour emergency contact details
- Ensure that all placements used are on the local organiser’s database
- Provide an opportunity for the student to be de-briefed after the placement and evaluate their placement
- Set up appropriate mechanisms for recording the experience
- Ensure that the placement has had a health and safety check by a person with relevant qualifications and has the correct insurance in place
- Demonstrate through policy and practice that it is unacceptable to discriminate against students on grounds of gender, ability, ethnic or cultural background
- Adhere to local procedures
- Not use placements for other purposes without prior agreement with the appropriate work experience provider