Careers Advisor

Nova Hreod Academy, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 2NQ

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  8 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £16,461.00 - £17,523.00 Annually (Actual)

Careers Advisor job summary

School: Nova Hreod Academy

Job Title: Careers Advisor

Required: ASAP

Salary: £16,461 to £17,523 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: 22.5 hours a week, term time plus one week

The Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic, passionate and highly motivated person to join our team as a Careers Advisor to lead and deliver our careers education programme and help prepare our students for successful transitions into further education, training and employment.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced careers professional who is committed to improving life chances and raising aspirations. Working closely with students, staff, employers and external partners, you will play a key role in ensuring every student receives high-quality careers education, information, advice and guidance.

At Nova Hreod Academy, we are committed to providing exceptional opportunities for every student. You will be joining a supportive and ambitious team that is passionate about helping young people achieve their aspirations and realise their potential.

This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact on students' futures by helping them develop the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to succeed beyond school.

Essential

• A Level 6 Careers Guidance qualification (or be working towards completion).
• Experience of delivering careers guidance within a secondary school setting.
• Strong knowledge of careers education and guidance best practice.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to engage and inspire young people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Experience of supporting students with progression planning and destination pathways.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.

Desirable

• Experience of using Compass+ and Unifrog.
• Knowledge of the Gatsby Benchmarks.
• Experience of supporting vulnerable learners and reducing NEET risk.
• Experience of working with employers, higher education providers and external partners.

We offer:

• A strong, supportive team culture where staff wellbeing is prioritised
• The opportunity to deliver memorable educational experiences beyond the classroom
• Excellent professional development and career progression opportunities
• A visible impact on students’ lives, particularly in widening access to enrichment opportunities
• A diverse and vibrant school community
• Clear systems, leadership support and a forward-thinking working environment

Benefits:

• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to United Learning staff benefits, including discounts and wellbeing support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Ongoing professional development and training

Additional Information

Nova Hreod Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore, there is an expectation that all staff and volunteers share this commitment. The successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.

Due to the high volume of applications received, the School is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that we do not accept speculative CVs from Agencies.

.Why choose us

At Nova Hreod Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff.

We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to have been the most improved school in Swindon. Nova Hreod Academy has approximately 1000 pupils in Years 7-11. The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford. After a visit from Ofsted in November 2022, the academy received a second ‘Good’ judgement in a row.

United Learning

Nova Hreod Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Nova Hreod Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1044 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Nova Hreod Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nova-hreod-academy

Nova Hreod Academy is well placed in an excellent Location, 1 hour from London, 30 minutes from Bath and 20 minutes to the beautiful Cotswolds. We are lucky enough to have a modern building that was designed with learning and development in mind.

We are committed to becoming one of the country's top-performing schools. At Nova we believe that all children have limitless potential and that all children can succeed when they are educated in an environment that is characterised by high standards of behaviour and excellent teaching. Our entire staff share a common goal: giving every child the best possible chance of success. We are determined to prove that students in Swindon can achieve at the very highest levels.

We deliver on our promise of the best chance of success by ensuring that:

Students gain high value qualifications which will open as many doors for them in the future as possible
Students develop a real understanding of subject disciplines, learning knowledge and ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understanding enabling them to better participate in our democratic society
Students get the opportunity to take part in many high-quality experiences – trips, visits, clubs and events which allow them to flourish outside the classroom, developing their character.

We place learning at the heart of everything that we do at Nova. Our expert teachers deliver a rich and ambitious academic curriculum in a calm, purposeful atmosphere. Our students work exceptional hard to develop a good understanding of the subject disciplines that we teach.

Beyond the classroom our house system, student leadership opportunities, and our enrichment programme, SuperNova, ensure that students have a wide range of opportunities to develop their character and to find and develop new passions, skills and interests.

At Nova every day we strive to create an atmosphere of joyful excellence where our students experience is characterised by both high standards and high levels of support. Where both fun and hard work are prioritised and where staff develop warm relationships with students whilst ensuring that standards of behaviour remain exemplary at all times.

Our values - Excellence, Hard Work and Kindness are at the heart of everything we do. The leadership team is dedicated not only to academic excellence and character development but also to ensuring that the workload for teachers is balanced, manageable, and well-considered.

How do we reduce workload for teachers?

High-quality, centralised curriculum resources
Live marking in lessons, so marking does not need to be taken home
A centralised behaviour management system
Visible and supportive senior leadership team (SLT)
Well-planned deadlines

These are just a few examples of how we’re making sure our teachers can focus on what matters most: delivering excellent lessons to our students.

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