Option 1 Under 16 work experience
Are you under 16 and in full time education, looking for a work experience placement?
Mansfield District Council provide a number of 5 day placements in various departments, please have a read through some of our options!
(please note that our customer experience team can only offer 1 day placements)
- Housing Repairs
- Housing Needs
- Marketing and Comms
- Customer Services
- Neighbourhood Services
- ICT and Infrastructure
- Cultural Services
If you would like to apply for one of the placement opportunities the following link will direct you to one of our application forms. Please note all sections must be completed in full and your school or education establishment must support your application. You will receive a response from our friendly Recruitment team via email within 10 working days to advise if your application has been successful. We only have limited placements available – once all placements are taken we will remove the link.
Housing Repairs – We are based at the Vale Road depot in Mansfield Woodhouse and cover many construction and maintenance aspects of domestic and commercial work. You will get the opportunity to find out more about our trade teams, including joinery, bricklaying, plastering, electric, painting and plumbing and gas. You will need an open mind and a positive and keen mindset to get the most out of the opportunity.
Housing Needs – Based at the Civic Centre in Mansfield you will work in an administrative role to learn more about the housing team’s role and responsibilities. You will get the opportunity to shadow our housing officers, learn basic administration tasks and attend meetings.
Cultural Services – We can offer a week long placement to support our Youth Theatre programme in summer – this usually takes place during July. This would be a good opportunity for someone interested in a career within the arts and theatre. Your role will be to support the delivery and classroom activities and get involved in creating a wonderful show! Please contact us for more information.
Marketing and Comms – Get some hands-on experience of digital marketing and more in our busy communications and customer experience team. During the week with us you will work on creative writing, content creation, digital design, publishing online, email marketing and website editing. Subject to the corporate calendar we may also be able to give you event management experience and activities covering corporate communications.
Customer Services – based at the Civic Centre our customer experience team cover all phone calls and emails that come into the council. We also manage a busy reception desk at the Civic with visitors arriving throughout the day. Please note that placements in this department are for 1 day only.
ICT – based at the Civic Centre or IT team support all of our staff with their IT needs. You would get the opportunity to find out more about the service and also support our technicians on the help desk where you would offer first line support to our 600+ staff.
Neighbourhood Services – this team is based at the Hermitage Lane depot in Mansfield and also at the Crematorium and Cemetery. We offer work placements within our Fleet and Public Spaces team which includes the admin team as well as frontline services i.e. Town Centre, Parks Development etc. Duties are varied from reception duties, customer enquiries, assessing new park facilities, working with Friends Groups, supervising operations / staff, event support and attending meetings.