Careers Advisor

Teaching Vacancies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working

Cycle to work

Employee assistance programme

Healthy lunch

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies seeks a Careers Advisor to provide impartial, professional guidance to learners, including those with SEND, ensuring access to personalised careers guidance and employer encounters that support progression into engineering, digital and academic pathways. The role tailors support to individual needs and prepares learners for further education, training and work.

The successful candidate will contribute to the London Design and Engineering UTC vision, supporting an

Qualifications

• Level 6 QCF Diploma in Career Guidance and Development required.

Responsibilities

• Provide impartial and professional career guidance to learners, including personalised interviews.
• Support learners, including those with SEND and additional needs, to plan and manage career progression into engineering, digital, technical, professional and academic pathways.
• Tailor advice to individual learner needs and organise meaningful employer encounters to support progression.

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

The role of the Careers Advisor is to provide impartial and professional career guidance and they will ensure that every learner, including those with SEND and additional needs, has access to impartial, personalised careers guidance and meaningful employer encounters that support ambitious and successful progression into engineering, digital, technical, professional and academic pathways. Advice and support will be tailored to learners' individual needs and offers opportunity for all. The role will utilise good practice to prepare young people with the necessary knowledge and skills for choices about further education, training, and employment and the transition to get there. They will provide professional career guidance services, including personal interviews to improve learners' skills, knowledge and understanding for career planning and management to secure the best opportunities for their future.

This role contributes to the London Design and Engineering UTC vision of empowering every learner to thrive in a dynamic, inclusive and sustainable world through and employer-rich, future-focused education that develops creative, professional and entrepreneurial mindsets, transforming lives, communities and the UK talent pipeline.

What the school offers its staff

At LDE UTC staff welfare is at the heart of what we do and being a new and dynamic institution we have been able to introduce new initiatives to support staff and improve wellbeing. As part of this, we have introduced a staff wellbeing committee (SMILE), introduced fresh fruit Wednesdays and provide free milk, tea and coffee daily as well as a healthy free lunch.

Additionally, we offer all staff from day one, an opportunity to apply for flexible working and dependant on the role, staff are able to work from home for 20% of the working week. We also offer initiatives such as the Cycle2Work scheme and Employee Assistance Programme to further support staff wellbeing. We have also implemented a 4.5 day timetable for learners, creating 54% learner contact time and 46% of the working week for PPA and CPL. 10 of the 190 days for our learners are 'flipped learning days' allowing further time for CPL and PPA for teachers.

Further details about the role

We are looking to recruit a successful candidate who holds a Level 6 QCF Diploma in Career Guidance and Development. This is a full-time position, based on 37 hours per week.

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.