Careers Advisor

Meadowhead School Academy Trust, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8BR

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  14 April 2025 at 5pm

• Date listed

  28 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £200.00 Daily Self Employed basis

Careers Advisor job summary

Are you a highly motivated individual, interested in supporting our students to help shape their future?

You will provide our students with practical support in terms of careers advice and guidance in a one-to-one or group settings.

You will help our students consider the range of choices available to them and outline possible ways to achieve their goals. You will also support our students to overcome barriers to reaching their goals and signpost them to other agencies for advice where appropriate.

To be successful in this role, you will hold a relevant Level 6+ qualification in careers guidance and enjoy working with students to help them achieve their ambitions.

You will be a good communicator and be committed to bringing out the best in others.

You will required to work with us for 3 days per week working between 8.00am – 4.00pm on days to be agreed with you, during term time only.

If you would like to join our school, where every person matters, please submit your application by the closing date below.

For informal discussions, you can contact the school Careers Leader – Leighton Collins (collinsl@meadowhead.sheffield.sch.uk)

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

Meadowhead School Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

Any position that involves working with children requires declaration of all convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences. Should you be shortlisted for this position, you will be asked to declare any convictions.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children.

References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. If previous employment has included working with children, then at least one referee must be from this employment regardless of whether this is the current or most recent employment. Any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Meadowhead School Academy Trust

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1924 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Meadowhead School Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/meadowhead-school-academy-trust

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