Senior Careers Advisor
- Recruiter
- South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
- Location
- Filton, City of Bristol
- Salary
- £24,237 - £25,041 pro rata per annum
- Posted
- 12 Dec 2018
- Closes
- 18 Dec 2018
- Ref
- SGS469
- Job Level
- Administrator / Officer / Advisor
- Job Function
- Careers Advice
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part Time
33 hours per week.
South Gloucestershire & Stroud College has an excellent reputation for delivering further education and work-based programmes in a range of subjects – from business to sport, engineering to media, GCSEs and A Levels to degree level courses.
Our experienced and passionate staff work hard to help our students achieve their personal challenges and career goals. We are proud of SGS and committed to making the College the best it can be. We are currently working hard to achieve “Outstanding” status after being classified as “Good” in our first inspection.
South Gloucestershire and Stroud College is a large and progressive FE College, based in North Bristol, with 6 campus sites across the city, South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire. This post offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced Careers Advisor to deliver high quality, impartial careers information, advice and guidance to 16-19 year olds, supported by a dedicated team of peers. They will work closely with Head of Careers in honing a strategy that aims to achieve full Gatsby ‘Good Careers Guidance’ benchmark compliance for the college, as it enters an ambitious period of developing its careers services to all students. To support this, the successful candidate will be offered a fully funded Postgraduate Award (Level 7) in Careers Leadership at Warwick University, as part of a comprehensive CDP package.
SGS College is committed to partnership working and is a key member of the newly established West of England Careers Hub http://westofenglandlep.co.uk/news/new-careers-hub, one of only 20 in the country. This ensures our involvement in cutting-edge development of the Gatsby Benchmarks in the South West.
SGS Careers Services is Matrix accredited and works with 18 secondary school partners as well as serving its own 4,000 16-18 years student cohort and a growing number of HE students. The successful candidate will support the Head of Careers in ensuring quality control of careers guidance at our partner school with periodic visits and supervision of careers advisors and be involved in the co-creation of dynamic career tools for students.
Expected Interview Date: Friday 21st December 2018.
The successful applicant will be required to obtain and maintain a satisfactory Disclosure Certificate, Enhanced with Children’s Barred list check, as a requirement of the job.
South Gloucestershire and Stroud College welcomes applications from all sectors of the community and is an equal opportunities employer.
NO AGENCIES.
Please apply via the link.