Careers Lead and Subject Teacher

St Mary Magdalene CofE School, secondary provision is seeking a Careers Lead to provide oversight for our programme of careers education, information advice and guidance. We require an ambitious, flexible and committed person to further develop our already successful careers programme. The school is looking for an individual with qualified teacher status and we will consider teacher of any subject. 

We see the role of Careers Lead as essential in enabling us to deliver the outstanding educational outcomes we want for our community. The Careers Lead will work with staff and pupils across all key stages, but will have a particular strategic role in developing and embedding CEIAG at the end of Key Stage 4 and across the Sixth Form. The ideal candidate will therefore have existing experience of having worked with students at Post-16 as well as Key Stage 3 and 4 with a flair for innovation in order to tailor programmes to the needs of our young people.

As Careers Lead you will work closely with the senior leadership and Sixth Form teams to ensure our pupils are informed and prepared for their next steps. As well as being the Careers Lead you will have a teaching commitment in your main subject for students across the secondary phase.

The ideal candidate for this role would have experience in delivering Careers provision within a school context. Above all we are looking for someone who has a clear strategic vision   for what outstanding CEAIG should look like:

• Passionate about Career provision and the role this plays in outstanding education;
• Experience in delivering this in a secondary school context;
• Flexible and committed to going beyond across the wider school community.

St. Mary Magdalene is a popular and successful school with two school campuses; a primary site in Woolwich and a modern state of the art all through building on the Greenwich Peninsula. It leads the Koinonia Federation with Christ Church primary school in Greenwich.

St Mary Magdalene’s secondary phase opened in September 2016 and provides a total of 900 places for students aged 11-16, along with a sixth form provision which opened in 2021.

We can offer:

• a supportive leadership team and vibrant professional community
• quality training to those new to the at all stages of your career
• a commitment to continuing professional development and Federation CPD programme
• a positive school culture which believes in distributed/ collaborative leadership
• energetic and enthusiastic high attaining students
• a supportive, Christian ethos across our school communities
• an Apple MacBook for use in school and at home

Applications will be considered and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to come in for a lesson observation and interview.

Our £65m building is situated on the Greenwich Peninsula, beside the O2, offering excellent public transport links via the Jubilee Line to North Greenwich and numerous bus routes.

As this role will involve contact with children we will take up at least two references before interview asking about your suitability to work with children. Any job offer will be conditional on you having a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service Criminal Records Check and Barred List Check, having the legal right to work in the UK and having satisfactory overseas criminal records checks if deemed necessary.

Koinonia Federation is committed to positively tackling discrimination in all its forms and works to ensure that all sections of the community have fair and equal access to and experience within employment. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, in particular those that are currently underrepresented in our workforce; we are respectful of all individuals’ race, age, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, caring responsibilities, disabilities and cultural background.’