Strategic Careers Leader
Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £44,711 - £53,634 (Location dependent)
Pay scale
- SP 35 to 40
What skills and experience we're looking for
What you’ll bring:
- A shared belief that we can effect change and transform the provision of CEIAG
- QCF level 6 qualification or Diploma in Careers Guidance
- Deep understanding of technical and vocational pathways, the CDI framework, PAL and Gatsby Benchmarks
- A proven ability to deliver projects, strategies and career outcomes in schools/academies.
- And an approach that inspires and motivates others to share your unwavering commitment to achieving positive career outcomes for our young people.
- A willing ness to innovate, challenge and disrupt how we create, deliver, monitor and celebrate exceptional careers and employability education.
We’ll pay you a good salary bolstered by a generous pension and a flexible benefits package designed around wellbeing and self-care. You’ll work with people who are kind, respectful and support each other in an organisation that is all about community.
We’d love to hear from you if the above has give you the career inspiration you have been seeking.
Want to know more? Get in touch and we can talk at length about our ambitions and vision. Email Ella Marett-Gregory in the first instance to arrange a time
What the school offers its staff
Strategic Careers Leader - UK Based with travel.
What drives the need:
Everyone has potential. It is one of the beliefs underpinning the Oasis approach to education. But it goes beyond the nurturing of potential through excellent teaching and learning. Our role as educators is to help reveal, appreciate and believe in the uniqueness of an individual’s capabilities and to prepare our young people for a future of sustainable, rewarding and meaningful employment.
We are determined to offer every one of our students, regardless of background, circumstance or label a future filled with opportunity and maximum fulfilment of the raw potential they uniquely possess. Our ambition is to deliver outstanding careers provision that will enable our students to succeed and to make a positive contribution to society,
To achieve this requires vision, persistence, influence and strategic prowess. And of course, a deep commitment to exceptional careers leadership.
Why Oasis?
With the right person at the helm of our careers education we can truly transform lives. Our focus on delivering exceptional education in areas of deprivation and disadvantage means our work is even more important and purposeful – so if your aspiration to change lives matches ours, we’ll help you achieve with a raft of initiatives and commitments:
- A team structure set up for success. Supported with bespoke training and CPD to upskill towards nationally recognised careers leader qualifications.
- Deeply knowledgeable support from National Careers Leadership to help implement strategies and to drive outcomes.
- A focus on national and local employer partnerships and interactions. We know that strong and invested employers who share our belief and purpose will bring opportunities, insight and new perspectives to our young people. We will make this a priority.
- Alumni engagement. Who better to inspire our students to believe than success stories from role models who have walked in their shoes. We shall enable these connections.
- Pathways and labour market information. Investment in diverse career pathway options and access to up to date local labour market information will give our students the best perspective on what their future could look like.
Through all this and with fresh careers leadership we will increase awareness, improve the quality of our CEIAG, deliver more meaningful destinations, reduce NEET numbers, bolster links with our primary academies, drive consistency of provision and give Oasis learners deep insight into the world of work.
Sound like the sort of place you could thrive?
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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 Oasis Community Learning
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- nick.boothroyd@oasisuk.org
The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.
Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.
We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.
Together, Oasis staff aspire to:
Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students
Arranging a visit to Oasis Community Learning
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email nick.boothroyd@oasisuk.org.
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