Ninestiles School is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our team as a Career Advisor. Candidates must have a good level of experience and be able to support young people’s career learning, planning and development by assisting with the development of careers education and guidance work-related learning.

Candidates will also have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills as this role requires regular contact with parents, staff, students and the local community. The successful candidate will also need to be able to demonstrate an ability to work with the community to organise and co-ordinate careers events, such as practice interviews and careers fairs. You will be expected to attend parents’ evenings, options evenings and GCSE results day.

Ninestiles has a very reflective teaching staff body who welcome feedback from parents and students to secure the needs of all learners. The school has a wide and varied curriculum, students have access to an impressive range of sporting and extracurricular activities with well over sixty enrichment opportunities offered after school. There is a strong culture of safeguarding and staff work positively with the leadership team to ensure students are kept safe.

About the Trust

https://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk/

Why work for us?

The Trust offers:

• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing

• High quality training and support in and across academies

• A clear career pathway

• Employee assistance programme

• Employee discount schemes

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.

Closing Date: 18/05/2020, 12:00 noon

For an application pack and further information about all our vacancies please visit the trust website: www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk/category/nat-vacancies/

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.