Careers Advisor

Bede Academy, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 2SY

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 September 2026

• Closing date

  18 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,919.00 - £29,225.00 Annually (Actual)

Careers Advisor job summary

Careers Advisor, Term Time Plus 5 Additional Days, Monday - Friday, 37.5 Hours Per Week

Bede Academy is seeking to appoint a Careers Advisor to play a pivotal role in supporting our students to progression routes and increasing their aspirations as well as maintaining excellent destination outcomes for all students leaving the Academy in Year 11 and Year 13.

The role includes:

*Raising aspirations, enabling students to achieve their personal best

*Enabling students to recognise they are gifted with a purpose and use their gifts to contribute to the world of work

*Increasing opportunity and access to fulfilling careers and further study

*Providing a range of academic enrichment to enable to make informed choices about future pathways

*Ensuring all students are given appropriate levels of support to inform and stretch pathways, particularly those with SEN and at risk of disengagement

*Ensuring our curriculum looks outward to the opportunities and needs of Blyth and beyond

It is desirable for the successful candidate to have a Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development or the passion and determination to achieve this qualification with support from the Academy within two years.

We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time post-holders)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Bede Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Posts will be subject to enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened and we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Bede Academy

• School type: Academies, Christian, ages 3 to 18
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: 2012 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bede Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bede-academy

At Emmanuel Schools Foundation we value, challenge and inspire students and staff because each is infinitely precious, gifted for a purpose and morally responsible. We transform schools by valuing excellence of character, providing a challenging curriculum and inspiring service to our communities. We serve economically and socially disadvantaged contexts in the Northeast and Yorkshire; currently through 6 schools in Blyth, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Doncaster educating over 7,000 students with a team of around 1,000 staff.

Bede Academy is an all-through school in Blyth, Northumberland and operates across two sites (one Primary, one Secondary), rated as 'Good' by Ofsted, it is a Christian-Ethos School of Character for the whole community.

Specialising in Engineering and Enterprise, the Academy focuses on extending conventional perceptions of engineering. We provide specialist insights into aspects of biotechnology, environmental science and recycling technologies, sound and computer network engineering, medical and animal science, and naval and automotive systems and design.
Bede Academy has a non denominational Christian ethos and welcomes staff and students of all faiths and none, whilst building on clear core values. We value every student as made in the image of God with vast potential, and seek to help them all to achieve their personal best in every area. Much more important to us than academic success is a student’s development as a young man or women.

We put character first and provide opportunities for students to serve each other and the local community, with which we have strong links. Students engage in a vast array of extracurricular activities in which they develop their sporting, musical, dramatic, mental and creative talents.

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