At SWRAC we support individuals to thrive through real-life and relevant education programmes. Our intention is to provide everyone with the skills, knowledge and experience to:
– Be independent and resilient
– Grow into education, employment or meaningful activity
– Live healthily and sustainable
– Develop and maintain healthy relationships
– Grow socially and contribute positively to communities and local economies
– Be safe
Location: Bournemouth
The purpose of the role is to lead the CEIAG team to ensure that there is a consistent approach to CEIAG across the organisation. Additionally in the capacity of Careers Advisor, to provide impartial careers information, advice guidance to facilitate our learners to make informed career/ job decisions, helping them understand themselves better and to know the opportunities and pathways open to them, so that they have clear plans of what they will move onto when they leave SWRAC and possibly even longer-term plans.
The main responsibilities of the role:
In leading the CEIAG team:
– To ensure all Careers Advisors are following SWRAC processes, policies and procedures.
– To ensure that the practices of Careers Advisors are standardised across all centres and that all learners are accessing impartial careers, education information advice and guidance at appropriate points in their learning journey.
– To ensure that the delivery teams (tutors/LSA’s), Quality Team and Centre Managers are kept up to date with developments within CEIAG.
– To ensure that learners who are coming to the end of their programmes (last 6 months) are supported to effectively transition on to their next steps, including internal progression.
– To ensure that, where appropriate and practical for the learner, they leave SWRAC at the end of their learning journey with a positive and meaningful outcome e.g. paid employment, further education, an apprenticeship, voluntary work.
– To track and record learner progression and destinations, as far as is possible, for 3 years following completion of their learning journey with SWRAC.
In Line Management Line managing Careers Advisers and Employer Engagement Officers
– Training new careers advisers and supporting completion of the Diploma in Careers Guidance.
– Monitoring of careers guidance to include annual observations of qualified staff and ongoing observations for trainees at each centre
– Developing training for careers team and wider staff training
– Carrying out one to one reviews.
– Being willing to travel to other SWRAC centres which may include overnight stays.
In supporting learners:
– To provide impartial careers education, information, advice and guidance to students during their time at SWRAC and to offer support for this after they have left SWRAC for a period of 12 months, and where possible up to 3 years.
– Enable the learners to engage with careers guidance through use of tools, such as, the Careers Portfolio, Careers Support Guide and career websites helping learners to understand their skills, strengths, barriers, motivators, etc.
– To arrange visits to colleges or universities, employers, and careers events, eg the Careers and Apprenticeship Show
– To meet with learners who are at risk of leaving early to discuss and explore options.
– To offer a listening ear and signposting across a range of issues affecting our learners as required.
– To collaborate with programme tutors to deliver group sessions to all cohorts (introduction to careers, workshops: specific careers / using careers information, CVs, Cover Letters, Applications, Job Hunting, Mock Interviews etc).
– To report on learner progress and achievement, destination and progression on a monthly basis, and as requested by Head of Learning and Quality.
– To complete annual report on CEIAG for the Board highlighting destinations of learners for the previous academic year.
– To complete Careers Action Plans (CAP) on Databridge, saving to appropriate student files
– To use Caseload Manager (spreadsheet) to plan learner appointments and note career aspirations and intended destinations, etcTo contribute to safeguarding processes as required
– To contribute to EHCP reviews as required
Quality assurance
– Prepare student case-studies both in text & video formats – two per month.
– To contribute to the company Matrix standard assessment and to ensure company maintains the Matrix standard.
– To contribute to the meeting of Gatsby Benchmarks and assessing this through the Compass Evaluation Assessment
– To contribute to meeting the requirements of Ofsted
Working with others
– To attend local stakeholder meetings / careers forums as appropriate to the role
– To attend job fairs, careers events and other networking events as appropriate.
– To act as the liaison between SWRAC and stakeholders and supporting organisations in the areas CEIAG and pastoral/social concerns.
– Maintain close working relationships with tutors and IQAs to ensure that services are provided effectively and efficiently to student
Continual Professional Development (CPD)
– To identify and attend careers training opportunities and networking events with other careers practitioners to develop CPD.
Other duties
– Any other duties required by the Management team.
Person Specification:
Qualifications
– Level 6 Diploma in Careers Guidance
– Willingness to complete the Careers Leader qualification (level 7)
Job Type: Full time
Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 per year, pro rata
For more information, please email: jobs@swrac.ac.uk
Closing date: 5th February 2025
SWRAC are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks. We are committed to securing genuine equality of opportunity in all aspects of our activities as an employer and education provider.