Careers Co-ordinator
Kingsdown School
Swindon
- £24,702 - £26,873 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual £21,752 - £23,663
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 2 September 2024
Job overview
Start date: As soon as possible
Closing date: Monday 2nd September, 9.00am
Shortlisting date: Monday 2nd September
Interview date: To be confirmed
Working hours: 37 hours per week - term time, plus TD days and 5 days (40 weeks)
Salary Range: Actual £21,752 - £23,663 (FTE £24,702 - £26,873)
Kingsdown School has so much to offer new colleagues which includes a fantastic learning environment, ambitious and aspirational students with high standards of behaviour and the opportunity to work with incredibly talented teachers, leaders and professional support staff.
What are we looking for in our new Careers Co-ordinator:
This is an exciting opportunity to play a fundamental role in breaking down students’ barriers for accessing careers guidance and support and you will provide and manage a programme for one to one mentoring. Reporting to the Assistant Headteacher, you will be responsible for providing whole school careers guidance and support, ensuring compliance of The Gatsby Benchmarks.
You will have the highest integrity, and the ability to communicate well at all levels. Very good numeracy and literacy skills (A-C GCSE or equivalent in Maths and English) are essential and experience of working in a school or with young people.
You will learn more about our Wheel of Excellence from our website and when you visit. Do please take a look at our website kingsdownschool.co.uk.
What will and can we offer you:
By joining our Kingsdown family you will join a team who genuinely cares and champions each and every student and each and every member of the Kingsdown team.
At Kingsdown, we know that staff and students thrive in a ‘healthy work culture’ and the wellbeing of staff and student outcomes is inextricably linked. We are committed to providing the best working and learning environment for all. The RLT has a staff charter and strong values, we uphold these values and commitments, and further build on these with our Wellbeing Strategy.
One of the core values of the RLT is that ‘everyone is learning’ and at Kingsdown we ensure each person has the personalised CPLD that they deserve. We do this through a variety of programmes, including our Restless Teacher Programme that allows all staff to take a lead on their own professional development, with the support of colleagues within the school. We are also very excited to be launching our coaching model this year, to allow staff the opportunity to be coached and develop their teaching practice further, whatever stage of their career they are in. High quality CPLD and training are an integral part of our meeting schedule and time is given to curriculum teams to collaborate and learn from each other. Alongside this we have a personalised induction programme that allows for new staff members to join us feeling supported and welcomed from day one.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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About Kingsdown School
- Kingsdown School
- Hyde Road, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon
- Wiltshire
- SN2 7SH
- United Kingdom
Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best colleagues.
Our vision for Kingsdown School is to become “a School of Excellence bursting with Pride and Ambition”. To achieve this our Mission Statement is that we “Champion each and every student”.
Three Strategic Priorities underpin our school improvement work. These are that we will:
- Know our students
- Teach our students well
- Have high expectations in all we do
As leaders of Kingsdown School we share an unshakable belief in all our students and in all our staff. And unanimously, we believe in the importance and power of the highest quality education to which everyone has the right and which we are determined to deliver.
The principles of both our School and the RLT are a commitment to:
- Excellence – striving for the best possible educational experience
- Everyone learning – creating and taking every opportunity to enhance lives
- Respectful relationships – acting with care, integrity and fairness in all we do
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