Careers Guidance Professional

Package Description

Being an employee of Northgate High School allows you access to an Employee Benefits scheme saving you money on many High Street brands, a cycle-to-work scheme, use of the sports facilities, library, and free parking. Hot meals are available on-site during term time. We also offer entry into a competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.

The Role

The postholder will be part of a team that develops and delivers the careers curriculum for students from Year 7 to Year 13. You will support the planning, delivery and assessment of impact and have access to administrative support to assist with this.

Main Responsibilities

Duties Include:

• Engagement of students throughout their time in school by ensuring careers guidance is vibrant, interesting and relevant.
• Offer tailored careers advice to students and signpost individuals to other appropriate support.
• Carry out one-to-one careers guidance meetings with students at key transition points, or as required.
• Develop links with employers, providers and alumni.
• Support the organisation of work experience placements for students in Year 10 and for those undertaking enrichment in the Sixth Form. Liaise with parents, carers and employers as appropriate. 
• Secure work experience placements for students with administrative support. Engage with students and employers to ensure that placements are successful.
• Work with the Careers Leader to develop lessons for careers education ensuring they are up to date, interesting and relevant.
• Support the delivery of some assemblies and lessons and support teachers with their delivery of careers lessons within the PSHE curriculum.
• Support the Year 9 Options Evening and Year 11 Pathways Evening. 
• Produce and analyse destination data, reporting to the education authorities as appropriate. 
• Tracking individual student careers engagement with provision and support those students who are not engaging. NEET prevention work.

The Ideal Candidate

Knowledge and skills required include:

•  Level 4 Diploma in Careers Information and Advice 
• Experience of providing one-to-one careers guidance meetings with students 
• Experience of working with supporting students of secondary school age 
• Knowledge/ambition to develop within Careers and Work-Related Learning 
• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently 
• Computer literate 
• The ability to exercise initiative and anticipate solutions 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to liaise with a wide range of people
• Enthusiastic with a pleasant disposition 
• Be a positive role model to students

About the school/organisation

Northgate High School is an 11-18 school situated on the edge of Ipswich. Our school  is an impressive site, with purpose-built centres maintained and equipped to the highest standards, including recent investment in technology.

We embrace three core values of Respect, Determination and Teamwork. These values are fundamental to the calm and positive learning environment that we strive to achieve at all levels across the school.

Following Ofsted’s 2019 inspection, we remain a ‘Good’ school.  Ofsted noted that “pupils enjoy coming to this school” and that “the Sixth form is a vibrant learning community, where every student is valued as an individual".

The ethos at Northgate is underpinned by our genuine desire to support the wellbeing of every student and staff member ensuring that they can realise their full potential. We value our staff highly and, if you join us, you will be working in a school that is committed to staff wellbeing, offers a first class professional development programme carefully linked to the School Improvement Plan and Performance Objectives. This means that our CPD programme strengthens the link between personal autonomy and our aims as a school. We maintain positive links with other local schools and universities.

Along with the extensive CPD programme  we offer a competitive pension scheme and benefit package which is available to all staff.