Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive Academy Trust who truly believe in the benefits and significance of Careers and Personal Guidance. Working from the Trust’s central team across the Cambridgeshire region of schools, you will report directly to the National Careers Lead. We are a flexible Trust and are willing to consider part time or job share for the right candidate. You will:

• Provide professional career guidance services, including personal guidance interviews in order to improve students’ skills, knowledge and understanding for career planning and management.

• Work with and support the named Careers Leader in school to provide an exceptional Careers programme to all year groups.

• Manage a large administration workload.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Personal Career Guidance

• Conduct student focused, impartial and personal career guidance meetings with students which challenges and supports them to make informed, realistic and adaptable career decisions.

• Base guidance on student self and opportunity awareness, aspirations, motivation, confidence and approach to learning.

• Generate and maintain student records electronically in support of personal guidance interviews, including a summary of agreed actions.

• Prioritise 1:1 intervention for vulnerable students (PP, SEN, LAC) in Years 7 to 13. Careers Information

• Develop and use expert knowledge of career and labour market information and intelligence to enable students to identify, access, interpret and utilise valid and current information that is relevant, including the appropriate use of information technology, e.g. social media and web-based information sources.

• Assist the Careers Leader in organising events and activities promoting careers. E.g. post 16 option events and Higher Education activities.

• Prioritise advice and support for students and parents at key points in the school year; e.g. Post 16 Options Evening, some parent/carer events and Year 11 results day.

• Assist in organising and updating the school’s careers resources.

Career Guidance Programmes

• Support the Careers Leader on the range of resources and the role of opportunity providers, e.g. Enterprise Co-ordinator/Adviser in the development and delivery of the career guidance programme in school and the achievement of the Gatsby Benchmarks.

• Facilitate career-related learning activities in groups with students.

• Assist, where relevant, with the monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the effectiveness of the career guidance programme in achieving the Gatsby Benchmarks and other careers related standards.

• Support with the school’s work experience programmes.

• Develop and use expert knowledge of Labour Market Information to share with teaching staff in order for them to promote careers in the curriculum.