Careers Advisor
BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
Hackney
- £37,950 - £40,076 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Support Staff
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 21 August 2024
Job overview
We require a Careers Advisor to contribute to our Student Services provision. The successful candidate will join a skilled and hard-working Student Services department operating within a supportive and encouraging institutional culture. Staff across the college share a strong commitment to its values and aspirations and are ambitious to build on significant recent improvements in student achievement and the wider quality of education we provide.
For more information about the post and the college please contact HR at HR@bsix.ac.uk.
Careers Advisor
To design, implement and evaluate the whole-college Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) Policy. To make sure that the College meets the Gatsby Benchmarks by the end of 2023 and beyond. To work towards and achieve the Quality in Careers Standard by the end of 2024.
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full time
Salary from: Full salary - Spine point 19 £37,950 to Spine point 21 £40,076 inclusive of the Inner London Weighting Allowance (Sixth Form Colleges’ Pay Scale for Support Staff)
Closing date: Wednesday 21st August 2024
Interview date: Wednesday 28th August 2024
Attached documents
About BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
- BSIX Brooke House Sixth Form College
- Kenninghall Road, Clapton
- London
- E5 8BP
- United Kingdom
BSix Sixth Form College: a brief overview for prospective job applicants
“The college is an asset to potential learners, providing educational opportunity for many students who have previously experienced disappointment” – Further Education Commissioner 2021
Thus the words of an October 2021 Stocktake Report from the Further Education Commissioner’s Office, acknowledging a host of improvements made by the college and its consolidation of a distinct niche amongst post-16 providers in Hackney and surrounding boroughs. This about a college which by the end of 2017 was struggling to justify its continued existence – buffeted by declining student numbers, beset by extreme financial pressures and reeling from a second successive ‘Requires improvement’ judgement by Ofsted inspectors.
The transformation, sealed by the securing of a ‘Good’ in our most recent inspection and the earning of a first prize in the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association’s 2023 awards for ‘Curriculum Innovation’, has required a major and united effort by college management and staff. Significant economies have been effected, the quality of teaching and learning raised and a new management ethos nurtured without any loss of morale or any deterioration in industrial relations.
There remains much to do if we are to consolidate the gains which have been made and to implement new strategies. Money remains tight, student retention and financial outcomes are not yet consistently strong and our reputation in some parts of the locality frequently lags behind the reality of what happens on the ground. Those tasks will be made more achievable if we can continue to augment our existing staff team with new injections of expertise, enthusiasm and openness to learning. Successfully appointing staff of the calibre we need is one of the very most important tasks we face.
If you would like to contribute to the improvement drive at BSix we would love to receive an application from you. The rewards awaiting successful applicants are considerable. As well as the fringe benefits listed elsewhere in this information pack, you will experience an institutional culture hugely supportive of professional learning and development. Management is ambitious but benign; communication is open and regular and there is a strong sense of institutional identity and common cause which transcends any differences between support staff and teachers, long-serving colleagues and recent recruits.
I look forward to receiving your application form and supporting letter stating why you are attracted to BSix and the qualities you can bring to its further growth. Should you want an informal discussion before committing to paper, please request one via our HR Manager, Claire Crook, at hr@bsix.ac.uk
Kevin Watson.
Principal.
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