Careers Officer
Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EW14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday - Thursday – 8.30am – 4.30pm and Friday - 8.30am - 4.00pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Tove Learning Trust Band H/I £28,624 - £36,124 FTE dependent upon qualifications and relevant experience
Pay scale
- Actual annual starting salary range: £25,251 - £31,867 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
CAREERS OFFICER
Permanent
37 hours per week
Monday - Thursday – 8.30am – 4.30pm &Friday - 8.30am - 4.00pm
38 term time weeks + 5 training days per annum and 5 further additional days
during August to support with Examination Results
Tove Learning Trust Band H/I £28,624 - £36,124 FTE
dependent upon qualifications and relevant experience
Actual annual starting salary range: £25,251 - £31,867 per annum
We require for Easter 2025, a Careers Officer at Lord Grey Academy.
The successful candidate will need to be able to deliver 1 to 1 and small group careers guidance and therefore a Qualification in Career Development (QCD), or a completed Level 6 Career Development Professional qualification via an Apprenticeship is essential for the role. Candidates who are on track to complete the aforementioned qualifications by September 2025 are also welcome to apply.
The successful candidate will be:-
- a strong communicator;
- caring and empathetic when working with teenagers;
- focussed on excellent destinations for youngsters;
- well organised, tenacious, dedicated and confident;
• an excellent role model for Lord Grey Academy students.
What the school offers its staff
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Further details about the role
A candidate information booklet and application form are available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website:
http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/
Please note the application form is available on the right hand side of the above link.
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Monday 17th March 2025.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 20th March 2025.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lord Grey Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lord Grey Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@lordgrey.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01908 626110
Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.
Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.
Arranging a visit to Lord Grey Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lordgrey.org.uk.
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