Careers & Work Related Learning Advisor
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AHThis job expired on 5 September 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
5 September 2022
Closing date
5 September 2022 at 9am
Date listed
15 July 2022
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Term Time (including 5 training days), and 10 additional days made up of support around the exams results period and occasional evenings as required. Working hours to be agreed with post holder. We are advertising this role as full time, 37 hours per week, but we are open to accepting applications that would like to be considered for this post, but would prefer to work between 23 to 37 hours, salary would be adjusted accordingly to reflect these hours. Please state your preference on the application form.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SCP 25-29 £30,095 to £33,486 pro rata (£26,838.72 to £29,862.81 actual salary)
Careers & Work Related Learning Advisor job summary
Careers & Work Related Learning Advisor
Are you an enthusiastic and suitably qualified Careers & Work Related Learning Advisor?
Then this will be the job for you.
To provide impartial careers education, information and guidance (CEIAG) to our students, in accordance with statutory requirements and guidelines.
Department Information
At Heckmondwike Grammar School Academy Trust we have a dedicated Careers Resource Centre where students have access to ICT facilities, the latest careers software and an extensive range of literature. The centre is open throughout the school day.
Professionally qualified and experienced careers staff are employed by the school to offer careers advice and guidance.
Students can request individual careers appointments, outside of school hours. Careers Advisers are also available for consultation at parents’ evenings for pupils in all year groups.
We have constructed a very useful careers website, which provides relevant information and links to assist students and their families in making well-informed decisions about their future Higher Education and Career choices. The website also sign posts students to The National Careers Service help-line and website, as well as other independent and impartial sources of careers guidance.
The careers team also maintain a SharePoint and Twitter account and contribute regularly to weekly school newsletters for parents and students.
Careers Education is an integral part of the school Personal Development programme.
To complement the careers programme we also have a well-established programme of guest speakers from Higher Education and Industry.
The Careers Department holds The Quality in Careers Standard and is working towards meeting all Gatsby benchmarks in full.
What Will You Bring To The Role?
• Initiative and ability to prioritise
, organise and manage own workload
• Ability to work effectively to timescales and deadlines
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff and students at all levels
• Ability to contribute to the wider school life
• Energy and enthusiasm
• Suitability to work with young people
Specific responsibilities are set out in a detailed job description.
In return we can offer:
• Interesting work as a key member of a supportive team
• A learning-centred school where the best possible practice is the priority
• The opportunity to develop personally and professionally
• A vibrant, supportive community of like-minded individuals
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1468 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heckmondwike Grammar School website
- Email address
- recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School of the Year”, in the North of England, for 2024 and 2025 in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide. This is a measure of school performance for GCSE and A level outcomes.
At GCSE our students typically exceed government set target grades by more than 1 grade in each subject and we are ranked second nationally for state coeducational schools.
At A level, we rank in the top 20% of providers nationally for grades AAB or above and typically 3 times the national average of our students attend Oxbridge universities.
We are very proud of our academic heritage.
Misbehaviour is rare; and excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm: teachers are able to ‘get on and teach’. Working here is still challenging, however, but in different ways: expectations are high and potential applicants will need to be able to operate effectively in a top performing environment. However, one of the principal joys of working at this school is our eloquent and motivated students. Consequently, outcomes are amongst the very best in the country, and this is the result of able cohorts being provided with high quality teaching that is supported by strong pastoral care for each student. The school is justifiably proud of the focus on academic attainment and knowledge of each individual that enables education to be tailored to every student’s needs; but also prioritises the support it provides to enable any barriers to progress to be addressed. The focus is and will always remain teaching and learning in the classroom, with staff training and development being the main means of achieving this end.
The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed, with well over 1500 students applying for entry into Year 7 each year, competing for one of 210 places. Post 16, we are similarly oversubscribed with around 800 applications for one of approximately 225 places in year 12. The majority of our year 11 students continue into the sixth form and are joined by a number of similarly aspirant students from across the region.
We work in partnership with an extensive group of schools, including the Northern Grammar School Alliance (NGSA), and have a significant reputation both locally and nationally. This means we offer our staff opportunities to be involved in professional development on a larger scale and see it as a sign of our high quality when members of our community are promoted to posts elsewhere, or progress internally. As a result, all staff feel very privileged to work here and to work with our young people.
Further information about the school including main school and sixth form prospectus may be found on the school website at www.heckgrammar.co.uk
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