Careers Leader Job Brief and Requirements
Purpose of post:
- To provide a range of professional guidance and career planning to enhance student employability and raise aspirations.
- To co-ordinate Work Related Learning (WRL) and Careers activities.
- To support and deliver effective careers guidance, careers education and information for students.
- To support and facilitate the delivery of all work experience programmes.
- To ensure the school provides high quality careers education and guidance.
- To design, select and provide curriculum resources, activities and services to meet students' career needs.
- To work in close collaboration with staff and employers to facilitate student progression and aspiration.
- To lead on a range of projects which assist and support students into employment or higher education, and act to raise aspiration.
Careers Leader Responsibilities
Work Experience Coordination:
- Manage the delivery of all work experience placements in Key Stage 4.
- Ensure the school fully meets the Gatsby Benchmarks.
- Map work experience provision and oversee gap analysis by sector.
- Develop local external business links to facilitate work experience placements.
- Ensure all pupils have at least one university experience by the end of Year 8.
- Develop a bank of good practice resources to support new employers with work experience placements and internships.
- Manage the production of evaluation reports on work experience delivery provision.
- Collaborate closely with the Luton Careers Hub to offer the best opportunities to our pupils.
Careers Advice and Guidance:
- Provide outstanding careers guidance coaching and information to students, ensuring they receive sufficient information to consider a wide range of career possibilities and have access to independent, impartial, and inspirational advice and guidance, including guidance on subject options and choices.
- Deliver workshop sessions covering CV writing, applications, interview preparation, and applying for volunteering or work experience opportunities, choosing a career, or pursuing higher education.
- Work with Higher Education Institutions, including Russell Group Universities, employers, voluntary organizations, and business enterprises to promote aspiration and opportunities for students.
- Ensure a clear strategy for delivering careers guidance with various activities and services to meet the needs of students at different development stages, including within the mainstream curriculum.
- Obtain written feedback from students, colleagues, and partners to monitor and evaluate the quality and impact of the provision.
- Develop partnerships and networks with local employers to ensure students have greater direct exposure to the world of work and a full range of career pathways.
- Ensure students are well signposted to different guidance activities and promote the use of the National Citizenship Service.
- Provide up-to-date industry-related knowledge and labor market information, and available apprenticeships in careers advice, guidance, and education activities.
- Design, select, and provide activities, resources, and services to meet students' career needs.
- Coordinate activities and events related to Careers Education and Guidance, under the guidance of responsible postholders and other staff as appropriate, and facilitate and manage careers fairs.
- Develop, in consultation with postholders, the provision of Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) coordination and events related to preparing students for apprenticeships.
- Support the SLT lead and other staff in coordinating whole school careers events.
- Assist the school lead and other staff as appropriate with coordinating projects and events with outside bodies.
- Advise SLT on compliance and careers statutory duties.
Whole School Support:
- Disseminate information to colleagues, students, and parents on up-to-date developments in higher education and employment.
- Research and provide up-to-date information on local and national career opportunities, keeping students and colleagues informed of new developments and trends.
- Lead in compiling and analyzing progression data when students move on.
- Support the enrollment and recruitment process for post-16 provisions as required.
- Undertake full First Aid training and act as a School First Aider, linked to off-site visits with students.
General Requirements:
- Always carry out responsibilities with due regard to The Chiltern Learning Trust's policy, organization, and arrangements for Health and Safety at Work.
- Perform duties in line with The Chiltern Learning Trust's policy on Equality and Diversity, promoting a positive approach to a harmonious working environment.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young, and vulnerable people you are responsible for or come into contact with.
- Be flexible to the needs of the school, including two weeks' commitment beyond term time.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade that may be required by school management.
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of working with young people between 11-18 years old.
- Managing, implementing, and evaluating action plans.
- Managing and implementing recording and reporting systems.
- Producing reports.
Desirable:
- Delivering mentoring and progression services to young people.
- Multi-agency working.
- Developing banks of educational resources.
Skills/Abilities
Essential:
- The ability to motivate.
- The ability to implement plans.
- The ability to build good relationships at all levels.
- The ability to effectively map provision.
- The ability to promote and maintain quality control in all aspects of work.
- Team player with energy, commitment, enthusiasm, and perseverance.
- Excellent organizational skills encouraging positive collaborative working practices.
Desirable:
- Ability to be both constructive and critical.
Competencies
Essential:
- Able to form appropriate relationships with young people.
- Ability to represent the school in a professional manner with a calm, tactful, and responsible attitude.
Equality Issues
Essential:
- Able to identify when discrimination is taking place in service delivery or in the workplace and to take appropriate action where this is identified.
Specialist Knowledge
Essential:
- Knowledge of a range of IT software, e.g., spreadsheets and databases.
- A working knowledge of the English education system.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues facing diverse and inner-city communities.
- Knowledge and experience of working within an educational setting.
Desirable:
- Evidence of knowledge, understanding, and enthusiasm for the personalised learning agenda.
- Understanding of budget management.
Education and Training
Essential:
- Relevant GCSEs or equivalent (including English and Maths at C grade or above).
Desirable:
- Higher education qualifications in a related degree.
- A qualification in Career Guidance and Development Level 6, e.g., QCG, NVQ/SVQ Diploma, Dip, CG, AGCAS.
- Teaching Qualification.
- Qualified Careers Coordinator.
