Courses
Work Experience
Given our learners are local to the Southend area, we are always looking for employers from the surrounding area to provide our students with opportunities to experience life in the working world.
Most of our students require work experience over the school year and ideally we look to find them opportunities that fit in well with the courses they are taking, to give real-life experience of how to use the skills that they are developing.
Our learners tend to complete one-week work experience placements consisting of 3 working days, however depending on the student they may wish to work with you for additional days if that were possible.
We will engage with you to discuss any learners specific needs ahead of the placement starting.
Our main courses are Travel & Tourism, Health & Care, Creative Media, Catering & Hospitality, Sport & Active Leisure and we would like to engage with more employers who’s job roles match these courses. However, we are keen to engage with employers that fall outside of this scope as well.
Below is a list of community business partners the college is currently working with:
In-house examples:
- Café: making and serving food to staff, learners and general public.
- Halloween event: marketing project, manning staff and selling goods.
- Work experience providing classroom and learning support to other students.
- Please see below our schedule of work experience dates for the current school year:
| Catering & Hospitality | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| The Digital Academy | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Health & Care | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Creative Media | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Sport & Fitness | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Travel & Tourism | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Vocational Studies | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
| Preparing for Adulthood – Special Educational Needs | Week commencing 23rd Feb 2026 |
Please click here to see our schedule of events
Contact Us
If you are able to offer work experience placements to our students please do reach out to us at SACC@southend-adult.ac.uk