Careers Lead and Advisor

Holmer Green Senior School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP15 6SP

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  1 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,424.00 - £36,975.00 Annually (FTE) £26,741 - £31, 465 actual (Bucks Pay Scale 4-5)

Careers Lead and Advisor job summary

About this Role

Holmer Green Senior School is a popular 11 to 18 school with over 1250 students, including a large Sixth Form. The school has a range of newly built modern facilities which now a include purpose built English and Maths block, new cafeteria, fitness suite, as well as a modern Reception area.

We are delighted to be offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and passionate practitioner to support our students in their preparation for life after school. The successful candidate will provide information, advice and guidance to students and their parents/carers in Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 in order to help them make realistic choices about future education, training and work. They will promote and highlight careers across the school so that HGSS students are highly aspirational and knowledgeable about their next steps, and will manage key documents including the Compass tool and the Gatsby benchmarks.

For more information on our school please visit our website www.hgss.co.uk

At HGSS we:

• Give staff the freedom to be creative and passionate about their subject areas.
• Strive to stimulate each student’s enjoyment and love of learning.
• Work as a team to ensure that no student is left behind - all have an enriched experience.
• Ensure that all students are supported and challenged to become polite, independent, resilient, confident and articulate individuals, who are aspirational and ambitious.
• Insist on a culture of rights, respect and responsibility. We’re a kind school - and we are proud of how our students uphold our values of working hard, being kind and having passion.
• Have an ethos that is inclusive, where each individual in the school community is valued and there is a focus on wellbeing as well as achievement.
• Deliver high quality professional learning for staff, developing strong and sustainable partnerships where innovative practice is jointly developed and linked to educational research and high-quality teaching and learning.
• Promote outstanding leadership at all levels to realise our vision.

Benefits of working at HGSS include:

• Exceptional team environment where all staff are valued
• Excellent Continuing Professional Development with high quality CPD programs
• 8 INSET days rather than the usual 5
• Paid lunch duties plus free lunch
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Many opportunities for career progression
• Extensive department resources and facilities
• Two-week October half term: Providing staff and students with an extended break during the autumn term
• Enrolment in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• Free use of the new fitness suite

Disclaimer: Please note due to the high volume of applications we receive; we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Therefore, it is advised to submit your application as early as possible as some interviews may take place, and the appointment may be made before the closing date is reached for the post.

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

Holmer Green Senior School is committed to the welfare and safeguarding of all its students and therefore all appointments are made subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS, qualification and pre-employment checks

We will carry out an online search (including social media) as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview. Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to complete a safer recruitment self-declaration form before interview

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 Holmer Green Senior School

• School type: Academies, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1240 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Holmer Green Senior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/holmer-green-senior-school

Holmer Green Senior School is a popular 11-18 school with 1200 students (150+ in the 6th Form). Relationships at all levels are excellent and we are committed to the professional development of all our staff.

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