Careers Lead

Caroline Chisholm School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 6TP

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  May 2026

• Closing date

  2 May 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  17 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £15,433.00 - £17,031.00 Annually (Actual)

Careers Lead job summary

The Careers Lead will be responsible for the professional management of careers across the Trust. They will ensure all students, particularly those in years 10 - 13 receive expert careers guidance and targeted support to ensure they are well prepared for further education, training and employment. They will work to achieve the Gatsby benchmarks and meet statutory guidance.

You will be extpected to coordinate careers education across year groups, ensuring students have access to impartial, high-quality guidance. To organise careers events, work experience, employer encounters for all year groups, careers fairs and post-16/post-18 transition activities. Arrange mock interview days and transition workshops to enhance student understandingEnsure statutory guidance is adhered to in relation to The Baker Clause. Facilitate bespoke appointments as necessary for vulnerable students including those with SEND.

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

The staff at our school are committed to providing a safe place for all students, and a place where they can feel confident, have ambition and succeed.

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 Caroline Chisholm School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: 2134 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Caroline Chisholm School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/caroline-chisholm-school-northampton

Caroline Chisholm is an oversubscribed, academically successful all-through school that strives to develop young people into ambitious, highly successful, happy and resilient young adults. At Caroline Chisholm School, we believe that every student is capable of becoming a high performing learner, and we are committed to achieving HPL World Class School status. We make learning enjoyable from Reception year right up to the Sixth Form, and we provide a challenging academic curriculum, coupled with a very supportive pastoral system that nurtures the strengths and talents of each individual student.

We are incredibly proud to be the UK's first all-through state school, catering to the ages of 4-19. Our all-through provision has so many benefits not only for our students, but it is in absolute privilege for myself and each of our members of staff to see our students grow and work with them through each phase to be the best learner that they can be.

Extra-curricular involvement is not considered an “add on” at our school. Engagement in sports, the arts, school trips and out of class activities allow us to build the values, attitudes and attributes such as empathy and agility and work towards our ethos of ambition, confidence and success for all.

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