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Careers Advisor

The Stourport High School and Sixth Form College, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, DY13 8AX

This job expired on 12 June 2019 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  2 September 2019

• Closing date

  12 June 2019 at 1am

• Date listed

  5 June 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,645

Careers Advisor job summary

Main Purpose of the Job:
• To provide information, advice and guidance to help students make realistic choices about their education, training and work.
• To assist and motivate young people in making informed life choices and engage them in mainstream learning and/or training opportunities to meet RPA.
• To develop strategies to support young people to remain in EET and to make a successful transition into EET post 16.
• To support the school in developing good practice models for careers guidance.
• To provide intensive support to young people in Years 8 to 13, supporting them to overcome barriers to education, employment and training and contribute to the safeguarding of young people.
• To target support at vulnerable young people inclusive of those with multiple and complex needs.
• To offer a range of services to intensively support young people including assessment, 1:1, group work and project work.
• Contributing to meeting targets for participation rates of young people in learning.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
• Interview students one to one or in small groups to discuss career or education options.
• Work with parents, carers and families of young people to ensure they remain in EET or make a successful transition into EET post 16 and post 18.
• Identify skills gaps and how to deal with them.
• Help young people to draw up action plans for education, employment and training and supporting them to achieve these goals.
• Research careers, options and support organisations to meet student’s needs.
• Advise students on how to source relevant education and training courses or qualifications and what funding might be available.
• Provide advice on CV, applications, job hunting and interview techniques.
• Run small group sessions or larger presentations on all aspects of careers work and topics related to personal development.
• Help students to understand the current job market.
• Liaise and negotiate with other organisations on behalf of young people.
• Use IT for administrative tasks, such as recording interactions with and tracking students.
• Provide statistics relating to work undertaken, students’ progress and destinations once they have left.
• Use computer-aided guidance packages, skills assessment tools, career planners, psychometric tests and personal inventories.
• Write careers literature or source information products from elsewhere for use within the service.
• Plan and organise mock interview days, careers fayres and conventions.
• Organise visits to local colleges and employer events.
• Keep up to date with labour market information, legislation, and professional and academic developments by visiting employers, training providers and training events run by educational and professional bodies.
• Work with young people to access appropriate support. Co-ordinate support for young people and advocates to ensure their needs are identified and met where possible.
• Ensure young people are actively and meaningfully involved in the development, delivery and evaluation of the careers service.
• Build and maintain partnership working with key stakeholders including colleges, training providers, work experience providers, young people’s services, and parents/carers.
• Raise awareness at a strategic level of the issues faced by young people generally, and in specified target cohorts.
• Represent the school on relevant multi agency meetings.
• Attend appropriate meetings, training and events.
• Engage in ethical and effective practice with young people via:
o Ensuring provision delivery is aligned with best practice.
o Implementation of practice in line with data protection policies.
o Promoting a culture of health and safety.
o Maintenance of professional boundaries with young people.
o Actively promoting equal opportunity in practice and challenging of discrimination.
o Adhering to financial policies and procedures.
o Ensuring that legislative requirements regarding the safeguarding of children and young people are adhered to.

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.

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About The Stourport High School and Sixth Form College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1127 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Stourport High School and Sixth Form College website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@shs.saet.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-stourport-high-school-and-sixth-form-college (opens in new tab)

Stourport High School & VIth Form College is committed to:
- building a learning community
- strong curriculum strategy
- consistently good teaching
- a culture of kindness and care
- collaboration with our wider school community

Being part of Severn Academies Educational Trust enables collaboration with best practices across our schools. The Trust is committed to harnessing talent and developing its people and there may be an opportunity to undertake further training and development in related disciplines. There may also be flexibility to work across other settings within the trust, for the right candidate.

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