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Higher Education and Careers Officer
Mossbourne Community Academy, London, E5 8JY19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Support Staff Scale – Spine Point 36 - £39,197.31 to Spine Point 42 - £45,196.31 [Actual pay]
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Higher Education and Careers Officer will be a key member of the Higher Education and Careers Team. They will enable all students to make appropriate decisions about their futures and support them to secure places on their chosen and best-suited post-16 and post-18 pathways. It will also be their responsibility to champion higher education and careers across the Academy, ensuring that all members of the academy understand and value the role it plays in raising aspirations and achieving successful outcomes.
The successful candidate will ensure students across Mossbourne Community Academy and Mossbourne Sixth Form make well informed choices at times of transition. This includes providing students with appropriate information and resources to inform post 16 and post 18 options. They will work with the Higher Education and Careers Manger to deliver a high-quality CEIAG programme underpinned by the Gatsby Benchmarks. They will maintain and develop partnerships with education and training providers and a range of employers.
The role also includes preparing students for the world of work and their future pathway, contributing to the planning and implementation of the PSHCERSE Programme and delivering a range of enrichment opportunities that promote higher education, apprenticeships, and employment.
What the school offers its staff
Federation staff are rewarded through the comprehensive package of benefits listed in our Federation Recruitment Brochure, including:
The Mossbourne Allowance (T&Cs apply)
Free lunches (T&Cs apply)
Tea, coffee and refreshments provided for staff throughout the week
Benenden health membership, to support health and wellbeing, fully paid by the Federation
Early finish on Friday – secondary academies
Free staff fitness classes
Cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes
Discounts at local restaurants
Discounted gym membership with the ability to spread membership costs
Saturday and holiday paid programme
Special leave scheme
Staff appreciation awards and events
First rate professional development and career opportunities
Financial support for career development (T&Cs apply)
‘Introduction Bonus’ for current staff (T&Cs apply)
Remuneration for exam board marking (T&Cs apply)
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, we welcome your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
Mossbourne Federation reserves the right to modify job descriptions to ensure the needs of the Federation & students are met. Mossbourne Federation provides equal employment opportunities to all employment applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or status. The document is not a comprehensive list; it simply outlines expectations of the role. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. The post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.
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 Mossbourne Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1432 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mossbourne Community Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@mossbourne.org
The Mossbourne Federation’s flagship academy, Mossbourne Community Academy (MCA) is built on high expectations and doing right by the pupils in our care. We are driven to ensure that MCA pupils have future choice and opportunities, succeed in their chosen career pathway and make positive contributions to society. MCA has not only changed the face of education in Hackney, but has also raised the bar in educational expectations to the highest level; we achieve recognition, nationally, and annually, for setting a new benchmark for non-selective comprehensive education. All pupils, regardless of race, gender, background or ability, are encouraged to achieve their true potential and the behaviour of our pupils is exemplary. With outstanding GCSE and A-level results, year on year, Mossbourne Community Academy is placed within the top 1% of schools in the country. We are tremendously proud that our most recent Ofsted Inspection, dated November 2021, judged the academy as ‘outstanding’ and starts with the sentence ‘Mossbourne Community Academy changes pupil’s lives for the better’, because that is what we do, year on year. In 2023, Mossbourne Community Academy was named the top comprehensive school in London in The Sunday Times ‘Good Schools Guide’, the 5th most oversubscribed school in England and the most oversubscribed school in London. Such recognition is testament to the pride, hard work and dedication of our staff body, pupils and parents.
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