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Careers Adviser

Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QD

This job expired on 10 December 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  10 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 21 hours 8.30am - 4.00pm (1/2 hour lunch)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 27,722-31,586
• Actual salary: 13,924 - 15,865
• Pay scale: Grade 8

What skills and experience we're looking for

The school is looking for a specialist Careers Adviser to join our wider team supporting student aspirations and progression. The successful applicant will build on the outstanding provision developed by the current team, which has earned the school a reputation for excellence in careers education and guidance, recognised by Ofsted in 2023. This role offers the opportunity to have a life changing and life-enhancing impact on young people.

You will benefit from a competitive salary and automatic membership in the LGPS. The school offers outstanding induction, training and career development opportunities through HISP Learning Partnership and access to the Trust’s employee wellbeing programme.

Working days to be agreed. Additional hours may be available to the right candidate with an ambitious vision for developing our programme further. A QCF Level 6 Diploma in Careers Guidance and Development is desirable, but we are committed to supporting the right candidate to gain this qualification.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and paid annual leave entitlement for an employee under 5 years’ service. This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

What the school offers its staff

Post: Careers Adviser Grade 8 SCP 12-20 (£27,711-£31,586)

£13,924 - £15,865 Actual Salary

Hours: 21 hours 8.30am – 4.00pm with ½ hour for lunch. Term Time only (inc. Inset Days)

Flexible hours will be required at times to facilitate attendance at Parents Evenings, Open Evenings and other events

Title: Careers Adviser Reports to: Assistant Headteacher: Student Aspirations

Role Purpose:

• To provide an inspiring and up-to-date careers advice service across all key stages of the school.
• To build staff knowledge and expertise in careers-related matters
• To engage and inspire young people with SEND and disadvantaged as well as their parents/carers
• To raise Pupil Premium/Free School Meal students’ aspirations through careers guidance and opportunities.
• To assist Year 11 and Sixth Form students into employment/apprenticeships.
• To equip our students with the information and guidance they need to progress as well-informed and employable young people.
• To demonstrate professional commitment to equal opportunities and diversity

Key Responsibilities

Contributing to the Careers-related Curriculum

• Work with the (non-specialist) Director of Learning for EPD, Assistant Headteacher Student Aspirations and other staff to select and provide the appropriate curriculum resources and activities for careers and employability lessons, through the EPD programme and Tutor Time
• Develop with the teaching staff an effective and continually improving careers education, careers information and careers guidance for all students.
• To provide information, advice and guidance about a range of issues such as apprenticeships, careers, education, employment and academic achievement in partnership with external specialist and support agencies where necessary.
• Help to contribute towards the Quality in Careers Standard award

Providing Careers Advice and Guidance to Students

• Providing careers guidance throughout school at key progression milestones, including GCSE options, sixth form options and apprenticeship/university course selection.
• Supporting and enhancing the sixth form tutor team with the UCAS process, for example, disseminating information on industry changes that have an impact on university applications.
• Provide advice and guidance to ensure Sixth Form students successfully gain employment or apprenticeships as alternatives to higher education.
• Attend Parents’ Evenings and other after-school events to provide individual careers guidance.
• Actively promote careers in school assemblies/open evenings and at Information Evenings/events.
• Target young people with SEND, Pupil Premium and Free School Meal students and their families for careers engagement activities, careers interviews and guidance
• Work with students identified as Pupil Premium/Disadvantaged to put in place a careers action plan based on developing aspirations, achievement and progress whilst also identifying opportunities for these students across all careers events.
• Assist students to draw up action plans for employment, education and training and supporting them to achieve these goals.
• To encourage parents to take an active role in supporting young people with their career exploration and decision- making.
• Providing guidance to students on compiling CV’s, completing application forms, interview technique and presentation skills
• Producing careers information through hard copy literature, electronic communications and displays.
• To support the organisation of work experience placements across Key Stage 4 (all students) and Sixth Form (targeted students).

Organising and Delivering Key Events

• In Key Stage 5, identify and facilitate work experience placements and internships tailored for individual targeted students, where required to support their study outcomes.
• Organise the programme of mock interviews in Key Stage 4 and 5
• Organise events in school which in the form of workshops, visits, careers fairs, guest speakers and conference-style activities aimed at raising the aspirations of students
• Contacting local businesses/larger companies to attend the Careers Fair.
• Organise student attendances at external events (working with Director of Learning for Ethics and Personal Development and other staff).
• Foster positive links with Alumni, to include career events and briefings, networking opportunities at university and in the workplace, video-conferencing and podcasting

Building Staff Knowledge, Capacity and Expertise

• Maintain an up to date knowledge of the local, regional and national jobs market to ensure accurate personalised advice is given. This will include building links with local, regional and national employers which will directly benefit Highcliffe students.
• Maintaining and nurturing relationships with a variety of post-16 educational providers, training providers and local businesses to draw on local expertise and enhance the school’s CEIAG provision.
• Be a proactive source of knowledge and expertise for the wider teaching team on CEIAG and employability.
• Specifically develop and deepen school capacity in assisting students secure medical-related careers and STEM-related careers
• Record and monitor the outcomes of CEIAG interventions, reviewing and reporting to SLT.
• Assist to record, monitor and report leaver destination information to relevant members of the school community. Identify areas for improvement.
• Be proficient in completing the Compass+ evaluation and supporting the review of the careers programme

Other

To adhere to and follow the school’s Safeguarding procedures in order to protect the safety of all children.

To carry out other such duties as may be required from time to time, commensurate to the grade and qualifications of the post.

To be responsible for promoting equality of opportunity in accordance with relevant policies on Equal Opportunities and to offer services to all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, race colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or creed.

Commitment to safeguarding

HISP MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check, social media check and positive references.

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About Highcliffe School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1509 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Highcliffe School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: aparsons@highcliffeschool.com
• Phone number: 01425 282323
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Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.

Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.

Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.

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