Careers Advisor / Leader

Teach. Champion. Empower. Safeguard.

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum

Location: Wimbledon, with regular travel to school sites across London

Hours: Full time (35 hours per week); All year round.

We are seeking an experienced Careers Advisor to lead on the TCES careers plan, providing our pupils with impartial career information, advice and guidance, enabling our exceptional neurodiverse pupils to develop and implement career management skills. You will work alongside the Head of Sixth Form to ensure that all 8 Gatsby Benchmarks are met.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist education across London, supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges.

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary site in Barking, through our Create in the Community service or within our Home Learning service. Our Create in the Community and Create Learning Primary services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with our schools: TCES East London and TCES North West London supporting those who are able to access learning within a school environment. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main schools, our Sixth Form, or into a mainstream provision.

Our schools and services are creative hubs, delivering academic, vocational and enrichment opportunities as well as developing young leaders through our LIFE programme. We believe they will become successful members of society through the knowledge, values and thinking skills learnt in the classroom and school environment.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:  

• Minimum of a Level 4 Diploma in Career Information and Advice, ideally holding a Level 6 Diploma or willing to work towards it.
• Substantial experience in an advice/guidance role.
• Experience of successfully delivering the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks.
• Experience of supporting neurodiverse children with ASC and/or SEMH and an understanding of potential implications for communication, learning and behaviour patterns.
• Resilient, committed and a hard worker - able to keep going in the face of adversity and never giving up.
• Ability to demonstrate ambition for all pupils; a genuine passion and belief in the potential of every pupil with the motivation to improve standards and achieve excellence.

In return we offer:  

• Competitive salary and terms and conditions, including 25 days annual leave.  
• An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.  
• Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.  
• Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.  
• Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.  
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance  Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an  exclusive rewards platform.

Closing Date: 24 July 2022

To apply:

Please find more information attached to this advert below. Please complete our application form and visit www.tces.org.uk/jobvacancies to upload. 

If you have any questions please contact recruitment@tces.org.uk  

TCES is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting     the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.