Turning Passion into Purpose.
London South Bank University is seeking an experienced and motivated Professional Practice Team Manager to lead the College's Professional Practice team and ensure the delivery of a high-quality, responsive, and student-focused service supporting professional practice placements across the College of Health and Life Sciences.
This is a varied and people-focused leadership role, responsible for overseeing all placement and pre-placement administrative activities across a diverse portfolio including Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work, and Allied Health disciplines. You will lead a team of Professional Practice Advisors, ensuring the effective management of systems, processes, and operational activities that underpin students' professional practice experiences.
Working closely with academic colleagues, NHS Trusts, professional practice providers, and external stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring students are fully prepared for placement activity and that all professional, regulatory, and organisational requirements are met. You will be responsible for maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships, ensuring the timely completion of placement requirements, and driving continuous improvement across services and systems.
The role includes overseeing placement and pre-placement systems and processes, managing operational performance, developing standard operating procedures, monitoring service delivery against key metrics, and ensuring compliance with professional, statutory, regulatory, and organisational requirements. You will also act as a key liaison between the College, placement providers, and external partners, ensuring a seamless end-to-end service for students and stakeholders.
About You
You will have significant experience working within a professional practice, placement, or student administration environment, ideally within higher education, healthcare education, or a related sector. You will bring strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading teams, managing operational workloads, and fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performing working environment.
You will be an excellent communicator, able to build productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and confident providing specialist advice and guidance on professional practice processes and requirements. You will have experience developing and improving administrative systems and processes, using data and metrics to inform decision-making and enhance service delivery.
As a key member of the College's Professional Practice team, you will lead and support Professional Practice Advisors, oversee placement and pre-placement operations, manage stakeholder relationships, monitor performance and compliance requirements, drive process improvement initiatives, contribute to strategic planning and reporting activities, and ensure students, academics, and placement providers receive an efficient, professional, and customer-focused service.
Benefits and How to Apply:
As a leading Higher Education Institution LSBU offers staff a highly competitive benefits package including holiday entitlement starting at 26.5 days per annum, professional development opportunities and flexible working. Full details on the range of benefits we offer can be found here.
For an informal conversation ahead of applying please feel free to contact the hiring manager for this position, Lee Standen, College Director of Operations, lee.standen@lsbu.ac.uk.
Application Details:
- The closing date for applications is Monday 23 November 2026 at 23:59
- Interview/assessment - week commencing 7 December 2026
We are happy to talk flexible working and reasonable adjustments and aim to make our recruitment and selection process accessible to all, please contact us to discuss any support you need. The diversity of LSBU’s staff and students is a source of our strength and the richness of ideas and perspectives that this diversity brings makes LSBU a unique place to work.
