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Careers Advisor
Lift Kingswood, Hull, HU7 4WR14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
29 September 2026 at 2:09pm
Date listed
15 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £28615 - £30576 per annum
Careers Advisor job summary
Are you ready to help shape the future of young people by supporting them to discover meaningful career paths? Lift Kingswood is looking for a skilled Careers Advisor to join our team, where we believe every child deserves an excellent education, in every classroom, every day.
We are a values-led school committed to creating inclusive learning environments where students feel supported to achieve their potential. Would you like to work somewhere that prioritises individuality, celebrates diversity, and builds trusted relationships with students, families, and partners?
About the role
This role offers a genuine chance to make a difference. Working under the school Careers Lead, you'll provide tailored career guidance that meets the needs of every student, helping them explore options, build skills, and prepare for their next steps in education, training, or employment. Does supporting young people to achieve excellent outcomes sound rewarding to you?
Key responsibilities
- 1-on-1 Guidance & Action Planning: Deliver tailored 1-on-1 career guidance, mock interviews, and action plans to help students set goals and secure positive Y11/Y13 destination outcomes.
- Programme Delivery & Workshops: Collaborate on the school's career guidance programme to meet Gatsby Benchmarks, delivering sessions on CV writing, interview preparation, and job search strategies.
- Information & LMI Management: Maintain up-to-date career resources, digital tools, and Labour Market Information (LMI) covering further education, apprenticeships, and employment routes.
- Employer & Partner Networks: Build relationships with local employers, universities, colleges, and training providers to coordinate work placements and external opportunities.
- Inclusive Support & Stakeholder Engagement: Work with parents, carers, and specialist services (e.g., SEND) to ensure career provision is fully accessible and tailored to all student needs.
- Record Keeping & SLT Reporting: Maintain detailed, accessible records of all individual guidance sessions and report regularly on CEIAG provision to the Careers Leader and Senior Leadership Team.
- Destination Tracking & Evaluation: Track, evaluate, and report on programme effectiveness using student feedback, surveys, and long-term destination data.
We are looking for someone who
You'll have a Level 6 qualification in Career Guidance and Development and proven background in careers guidance, ideally within a school setting. Can you build positive relationships with students and communicate clearly through presentations and group discussions?
We'd love to hear from you if you have up-to-date knowledge of labour market trends, educational pathways, and can work with a wide range of people to support students' needs.
Requirements for the role:
- Relevant Qualifications: Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development (or equivalent) alongside Level 2 qualifications in GCSE English and Maths (Grade 4/C or above, or equivalent).
- Targeted Experience: Proven track record of delivering professional career guidance and support, ideally within a secondary school, college, or youth-focused setting.
- Sector & Pathways Knowledge: Demonstrated written understanding of current Labour Market Information (LMI), post-16/post-18 educational pathways (including apprenticeships, FE, and HE), and the Gatsby Benchmarks.
You'll be empathetic, patient, adaptable and able to adjust your approach to suit different students and their career interests.
About the school
As a national beacon of excellence and one of the region's highest-performing academies, Lift Kingswood consistently delivers student results well above the national average. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted for leadership, behavior, and personal development, we offer a dynamic environment where both staff and students thrive. We're proud of our strong track record for internal promotion, elevating careers and developing future leaders. Are you ready to join our outstanding team?
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift Kingswood
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1592 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Lift Kingswood website
Lift Kingswood is one of the highest performing schools in the country and is a school where on average our students make over a grade more progress, across all subjects, than other students do nationally; placing the school as the 7th highest performing non-selective school in the country out of 6520 schools.
Our Vision is: 'to deliver world class learning, which places no limits on what young people can achieve' and we are rapidly becoming 'a national beacon of educational excellence in Hull'.
As a national beacon of educational excellence we will ensure that:
All students leave our school with first-rate qualifications: Qualifications that ensure all doors remain open, giving our students the platform to compete and thrive on a global stage.
All students develop exceptional character: Character that exemplifies a true growth mind-set; a phenomenal work ethic; confidence and high levels of grit, resilience and determination; ensuring they are fully prepared to flourish in an ever-changing world.
All students leave our school with high levels of cultural and global awareness: Awareness that develops through diverse experiences that enrich our students, enabling them to engage in, empathise with, challenge and debate current affairs beyond their local community.
All students leave with an array of positive memories that last for a lifetime: Memories that are created from students, staff and our community being fully invested in forging exceptional relationships based on trust, care, high expectations and a passion for genuinely making a difference in their life.
MISSION
Ultimately our Mission is to ensure that: ‘all students have an inner-belief and ambition to fulfil their dreams and live a happy and successful life.’ We are passionate about our students ‘recognising their academic worth’ and making sure that they are ‘prepared to make bold choices in order to secure places, and thrive, at the most reputable and highest performing colleges, universities and world-class employers.’
Key Drivers
Underpinning our vision for educational excellence are our 6 key drivers:
The Highest Expectations - Everyone can be successful; always set and expect the highest standards.
Everyone is Valued - Diversity is celebrated; no one is left behind
No Excuses - Print Solutions not excuses; a accelerate progress
Never Give Up - Resilience is essential; turn challenges into opportunities
Value Feedback - Good quality feedback drives improvement
Outstanding Learning - Outstanding learning in every lesson, every day
These aspirational and inspirational core principles are central to everything that we do and were jointly created by students and staff to drive the school forward. At Lift Kingswood, we live and breathe these key drivers with an unwavering passion and determination to ensure that our students receive the best education; we will not settle for anything but the best, and will not rest until the school is truly great in all areas.
World-Class Teaching and Learning
We are truly passionate about Teaching and Learning and this is central to everything that we do. We firmly believe that when every teacher:
Is passionate about changing life chances of young people
Is passionate about Teaching and Learning
Truly loves their subject
Makes learning interesting, fun and relevant
Knows the detail and nuances of the exam specifications
Forges excellent relationships with all students
Is strict but fair
Is proven and knows how to deliver top notch results
Is passionate about delivering outstanding learning (every lesson, every day)
Has a true growth mind-set;
Together great things can be achieved.
House System
We are also very proud of our competition-based house system. The aim of the house system is to build teamwork, confidence and community through competition. We see the house system as an ‘activator’, a vehicle to motivate and encourage students to push themselves outside of their comfort zone. There are four houses:
Reckitt
Wilberforce
Johnson
Sullivan
Every student, and every member of staff, is affiliated to one of the houses and they compete to earn points for their house. Students can earn points for good attendance and for making rapid academic progress. They can also earn points by entering house competitions such as: photography, dance, cookery, poetry, chess, talent shows and sports day to name but a few. You name it, we’ve got a competition to enable everyone to get involved. We want every student to gain the confidence and belief to compete and experience what it feels like to be part of a successful team. The house system also exposes our students to team camaraderie, team spirit and having a united mission/goal.
Academic Results
Our Progress 8 score is +1.17; meaning that in every subject, our students make over a grade more progress than other students do nationally. Our Attainment 8 score is 56.8, against the National Average of 44.3. This means that students on average achieve between a Grade 5 (good pass) and a Grade 6 in all subjects. 78% of our students also achieved a Grade 4 or higher in both English and Maths, which is well above the National Average of 63%. Our disadvantaged students' Progress 8 score is +1.15 and our SEN Progress 8 score is +1.29, highlighting that all students achieve well at Kingswood Academy; in line with our key driver of ‘Everyone is valued’. As a school, we have the highest expectations of our students, which led to 22% of students achieving Grade 9s in GCSE subjects, placing these students’ performance in the top 5% of the country.
Visits
We welcome visits to the school, to see the school in action and to discuss this post and your career development opportunities. To book an appointment with the Headteacher please email Cathrine Weightman (PA to the Headteacher) on cweightman@liftkingswood.org
OFSTED
To view all our Ofsted reports please click here
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
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