Job Title: Careers Advisor
Location: Wigan
Salary: (£4,550.37 per annum) – 15-18 Sixth Form Colleges Support Staff Pay Scale.
Job type: Permanent – Part Time. 1 days per week. 7.25 hours per week to providing careers guidance in one of our partner high schools – St Peter’s Catholic High School. Term Time only plus 2 weeks.
St John Rigby College offers a wide range of academic and vocational courses at all levels in a highly supportive and caring environment to approximately 1500 full-time students aged 16-18. We welcome applications from people who are keen to work with us to deliver educational excellence at all levels.
The College was last inspected in February 2017 and was judged to be “outstanding” in every category. Inspectors quote: “Students value the support they receive and are able to identify how it has helped their progress and developed their confidence. The Catholic mission and values permeate the college and are highly effective in developing students’ positive attitudes to learning.”
The Role:
The successful candidate will work to provide high quality impartial careers advice to students, to support them in their preparation for a variety of career pathways. To work with the College Careers Lead, relevant staff, local employers, HE providers and parents/carers to ensure students have the most up to date career, information, advice, and guidance. You will do this through carrying out a range of 1:1 guidance interview, working with individual students to secure work experience and apprenticeship opportunities. Deliver assemblies, group work sessions, assist with careers fairs/mock assessment days, mock interviews and other events as required by the College. You will be expected to carry out tracking of student progression through analysing the College’s destination data.
This role is key in enabling and supporting the College in maintaining the required Gatsby Benchmarks and our Matrix accreditation.
Extra Info:
Salary and terms and conditions are in accordance with Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Pay and conditions.
For further details about the post, please visit the College’s website to request an application pack.
Closing date: 3 June 2022 at 12 O’clock.
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Interviews: TBC.
To apply for this role, click APPLY and you will be redirected to fill out the Application Form on our website.
Candidates with the experience and relevant job titles of: Early Careers Advisor, Career Advisor, Employment Advisor, Employment and Careers Advisor, Recruitment Advisor, Placement Officer, Placement Advisor, Resourcing, Recruitment, Recruiter, will be considered for this role.
