Head of Careers & Employability
Phoenix Academy
West London
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Range 6, Point 26-28. Pro rata £24,875 - £26,333 (£26865 -£28440 FTE)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Apply by:
- 26 February 2018
Job overview
Job Title: Head of Careers & Employability
Reports to: Head of Sixth Form and Head of School
Responsible for: Strategic planning, development and management of the Careers department.
Start date: March 2018
Hours of work: 36 hours, term time plus 10 days
Salary: Range 6 Point 26-28. Pro rata £24,875 - £26,333 (£26865 -£28440 FTE)
Disclosure level: Enhanced
Job purpose
To develop and implement an effective strategy for providing comprehensive careers advice to pupils from year 9 upwards. Support the achievement of whole school and departmental goals ensuring that students are equipped to face the demands and challenges of life beyond school.
You will share in the Future Academies Trusts belief and vision that with the right teaching every student will reach their full potential and that schools serve their families and the local community as well as their pupils.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee facilities and resources for careers information, education and guidance, providing up-to-date careers and higher education material in the Careers Room.
- Liaise with appropriate staff working with year 11 -13 to ensure the needs of students are met with respect to future careers and higher education.
- Attend the appropriate Parents’ Evenings and ensure relevant Careers information is available.
- Ensure that students applying for college, sixth form and universities have sufficient understanding of the process and support from the Careers department to make a successful application
- Work with appropriate member of staff to help any student who needs care or advice regarding Careers issues or applications.
- Attend all relevant meetings in school and any relevant external meetings approved by the head.
- Undertake other tasks relevant to the work of the department or the needs of the school, as these may arise.
We can offer you:
- Free access to our leisure centre which includes a swimming pool, fitness suite and dance studio
- The opportunity to work with enthusiastic and happy pupils
- The chance to help rapidly improve the most important school in London
- Excellent CPD focused on outstanding teaching and learning
- Access to the Trust Future Leaders programme and multiple leadership development opportunities
- The expertise and support of senior leadership and colleagues across the Future Academies Trust
- An area well served by public transport, plus ample car parking on site
To apply: please visit our website www.futureacademies.org or www.phoenixacademy.org.uk to download further information and an application form. Please email a letter of application outlining why you consider yourself suitable for the role and the completed form to recruitment@phoenixacademy.org.uk
Closing date: February 26th 2018
Please note that Future Academies reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process so early applications are encouraged.
Future Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for this post.
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About Phoenix Academy
At Phoenix Academy our ethos is clear and we are unwavering in our dedication to it: "High Expectations. No Excuses. No Shortcuts.” We simply believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support.
At Phoenix we are creating an environment where it’s safe to be happy and where everyone strives for success. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
At Phoenix we place the curriculum at the heart of academy life and believe all strategic decisions should flow from this. Our academic curriculum ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond their everyday understandings. This is because at Phoenix, we believe that all learners should encounter and wrestle with ways of constructing knowledge and ways of thinking that are above their everyday experiences, and see that academic concepts are different from everyday concepts and ways of explaining the world.
We want all our teachers to be subject experts, immersed in the scholarship of their subject and keen to share that passion with every student in the Academy. Alongside this we are also passionate that every student develops into a polite and well-rounded young person through exposure to a varied diet of enriching experiences. We are developing a unique Adventure Learning and wilderness survival programme and are heavily invested in the Duke of Edinburgh Programme.
We also want to look after our staff; this includes free access to our leisure centre and swimming pool, excellent CPD and career enhancement and free breakfast and lunch each day.
Tony MacDowall
Principal
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