Head of Futures
Malvern St James
Worcestershire
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/01/2025
- Apply by:
- 14 October 2024
Job overview
The Role
• To provide leadership in the development and management of Careers throughout the school;
• To contribute to curriculum planning in relation to Careers Education Guidance (CEG) and regulatory requirements;
• To carry out such other associated duties as reasonably assigned by the Head.
Malvern St James is committed to preparing pupils well for life beyond school, quipping them with the knowledge and skills to be successful via an innovative and relevant programme. Access to employers and information about employment, universities and alternative pathways post 18 is vital.
The Head of Futures will work alongside the Higher Education team who give advice on applications to UK and overseas universities and apprenticeships to deliver an integrated programme and set the overarching and strategic direction for Careers Education. We are keen to make greater use of alumnae, current parents and employers to deliver a relevant and exciting programme where pupils can identify skills and aptitudes that can be applied to a range of higher education and employment opportunities. The Department is currently working towards the Quality in Careers award.
There are two possible routes to achieve the delivery of Careers Education at Malvern St James:
• Route 1 - A 3 day a week, qualified Careers Advisor. This is a non-teaching post. Salary will be dependent on experience and qualifications;
• Route 2 – A 0.4 of a full-time timetable role for a teacher or a 2 day a week post for someone who will organise and deliver the wider programme within the school and facilitate the outsourcing of independent Careers advice to maintain neutrality.
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About Malvern St James
Malvern St James Girls’ School is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of the Malvern Hills and is a leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3-18. Our values today reflect those of our founding schools, set up in the nineteenth century by pioneering proponents of women’s education. In this inspirational setting, MSJ continues a fine heritage of academic rigour, outstanding enrichment and leadership opportunities, and preparing girls for rewarding careers and lives beyond school.
MSJ is an exceptional place for learning and living. Every girl matters to us, and our size (at around 450 pupils) means that we can offer an individually tailored education. Our focus is on inspiring teaching to deliver excellent academic results; and equally on encouraging intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, considered risk-taking and collaboration that universities and employers will value. Our enrichment programme is as long as it is broad, and has something to fire the imagination of every individual: clubs for budding engineers and scientists, extra-curricular languages, drama, music, Leiths, journalism, photography, sport of every kind, Young Enterprise, Debating and Model United Nations … to name but a few.
Life at MSJ is underpinned by first class pastoral support which makes us a happy and friendly community, relaxed yet purposeful, with a real sense of family. When girls reach the end of their time here, they are thoroughly prepared to embrace life’s challenges. The diverse list of graduate courses at the most prestigious institutions and the competitive career paths that girls go on to is testament to MSJ’s culture of ambition and achievement. Our alumnae network helps our community to forge valuable links for life.
As a school we have a roughly equal number of day girls and boarders, allowing us to offer the best of both worlds and a very flexible boarding programme. We have full, weekly and flexi boarding options, designed to meet the needs of modern family lives. Our position in the town of Great Malvern, situated in the heart of England, means we benefit from excellent transport links and cultural opportunities all around the UK, including a direct train service from London.
Our girls work hard but have fun on the way, making lifelong friends and memories. Please do come and see for yourselves what makes MSJ tick and meet our happy, poised and confident girls and young women, who are free to be themselves and find the things which will instigate a life-long passion for learning.
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