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Careers Advisor

Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW

This job expired on 5 January 2026 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  to be agreed with successful candidate

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only + 2 Working Weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: SO1 (SCP 23-25) £34,434 - £36,363 Actual Salary £30,512 - £32,221

What skills and experience we're looking for

Boston Spa Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Careers Advisor. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing information, advice and guidance to students in Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 in order to help them make realistic choices about future education, training and work.

Potential applicants should have:

• Good honours degree or relevant level 6 qualification.
• Understanding of the Secondary, Post 16 and Post 18 Educational Landscape.
• Ability to form meaningful relationships with young people in the 11-18 age range.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

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 the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

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About Boston Spa Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1456 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Boston Spa Academy website
• Email address: susie.dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boston-spa-academy

Working in partnership with The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is a vibrant and successful and school, achieving excellent results and judged to be a Good School in the OFSTED inspection of April 2015.
Located between York, Leeds and Harrogate, Boston Spa Academy is committed to the development of the whole student, the physical, aesthetic, emotional, moral, spiritual as well as the intellectual.

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