Careers Adviser
The Leys School
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £27,812 - £31,025 (pro-rata) depending on experience
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 13 July 2022
Job overview
Annual Hours contract – Part time, Term time
We are looking to appoint a Careers Adviser to plan and develop careers advice and guidance across the school. Your role will include planning all key internal and external events, creating and delivering a programme for soft skills/employability training, provide Higher Education and UCAS support, and to identify and organise work experience placements. With exceptional communication and organisational skills, you will be building relationships with local stakeholders, businesses and other independent schools. You will host an annual careers forum and arrange an external speaker programme.
You will be expected to work approximately 25 hours per week for 34 weeks per year. Ideally, we would like these hours to be worked Monday – Friday. Remote working may be possible for some of these hours and this can be discussed at interview. The remainder of the contractual hours will be worked according to the needs of the School and agreed in advance with you at the start of the academic year in order to support key careers events.
The Leys is a thriving school with a particularly friendly and supportive staff and pupil community. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Before appointment to any role in the school, checks including an Enhanced DBS Check and workplace references will be undertaken in accordance with current statutory guidance. Evidence of eligibility to work in the UK is required as applicable. A six-month probationary period will also apply. The Foundation is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes and values diversity and celebrates the diverse voice of our community.
For further details, please visit our website, email hr@ theleys.net or call 01223 508955. Application forms, including covering letter should be submitted by 09.00 on Wednesday 13 July 2022 to the HR Department, The Leys School, Cambridge CB2 7AD or by email to hr@theleys.net.
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About The Leys School
The first thing to say is that The Leys is the leading co-educational boarding and day school in Cambridge.
The second thing to say is that the above statement, whilst true, does not begin to convey what makes this such a special place.
The Leys is an inclusive and inspiring co-educational boarding and day school offering an incredible learning environment and pupil experience in Cambridge. Putting pupils at the heart of everything we do, our shared values create a strong, caring, and cohesive community. The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated, successful, and welcoming team of teaching and business professionals, committed to working together to combine their skills, experience, and insights to deliver an excellent education to our pupils.
The Leys is an extremely rewarding place to work. We hope you will take the time to look at our website, The Leys School, to find out more about us.
We are more than just a school. The Leys is a close-knit, engaged, friendly community in which pastoral care is seen as our top priority. I often say to visitors that we see ourselves as a big, small school: big enough to offer a huge range of opportunities, but small enough that we are able to get to know individuals, with all their individual strengths and unique characters, and able to encourage them to strive to be the best they can be. The confidence which our pupils gain from this encouraging family atmosphere is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer them – without it, they cannot hope to fulfil their potential in work and play.
Established in 1875, The Leys values its history, yet it blends traditional values – courtesy, kindness, tolerance, respect, decency – with a forward and outward-looking approach to education. Dedicated staff and superb facilities combine powerfully as we prepare young people for the challenges which lie ahead at university and beyond. Yet I have always believed that school is, or should be, about far more than merely “preparation for life”. Indeed, my ambition is that Leysians will be able to look back on their experiences here as amongst the most intrinsically rewarding, challenging and stimulating chapters of their developing lives.
Set in the centre of the beautiful and stimulating city of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading cultural and academic cities, our unique location allows our pupils unrivalled opportunities to achieve the exceptional. Our added-value in academic progress is highly impressive, and the range of creative, cultural and sporting opportunities is breathtaking. We are rightly proud of our pupils’ achievements, both in the classroom and outside it, but the greatest pride we have is in the pupils themselves. They are our greatest achievement.
I look forward to welcoming you.
Martin Priestley
Headmaster
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