Careers Advisor

Careers Advisor

Final date to receive applications: 12 January 2026

Department: Quality

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Middleton

Compensation: £32,818 / year

Are you passionate about supporting individuals to achieve their career goals? Hopwood Hall College is seeking a Level 6 Qualified Careers Advisor to join our team and provide high‑quality, impartial careers advice and guidance.

Purpose

To work flexibly across the college and with internal and external stakeholders to provide a comprehensive, impartial careers education, information, advice, and guidance function for the College. Must be willing to work in a collaborative, partnership focused manner to ensure a student‑centred approach to always delivering a range of CEIAG interventions including 1:1s, workshops, activities and events. Ensuring CEIAG sessions are aspirational, empowering and enable students to progress and achieve their goals.

• Champion and promote the college’s careers service to staff, students and external agencies
• Plan and deliver a range of careers interventions throughout the learner journey from enrolment through to supporting progression, including 1:1 personal guidance, group work, workshops, and events
• Maintain accurate records of all careers interventions and ensure that aspirational, SMART action plans are developed in collaboration with individual learners
• Record all careers related activity using the appropriate systems including Pro Monitor
• Ensure that all learners have ongoing access to their own careers action plans for self‑directed career management purposes using the appropriate college systems
• Empower, support and enable students to make effective, well informed decisions regarding course options, progression pathways and career goals
• To maintain an effective link with curriculum, the wider student experience team, external agencies and other support services to ensure that the college careers provision is inclusive for all learners
• To provide high quality careers information, advice and guidance that raises learner awareness of progression routes into employment, training and HE
• To lead on delivering the college’s two‑year UCAS programme and work with all staff involved to ensure the UCAS application process runs smoothly
• To ensure that College standards are worked to and maintained (e.g. OFSTED, Matrix, Quality in Careers, implementation and achievement of the Gatsby Benchmarks)
• To evaluate feedback for our careers provision and create reports for SLT
• Maintain relevant ongoing continuous professional development including knowledge and application of LMI
• Ensure all communication with learners and other stakeholders is followed up in a timely fashion and recorded according to college guidelines including the promotion of Careers through social media channels
• Attend relevant meetings and staff development activities, and contribute to staff training activities where required and contribute to the development of best practice networks
• To work within the scope of the college’s careers strategy to support and ensure that the Gatsby Benchmarks are embedded into the college’s CEIAG provision including being part of the Careers Coalition
• Any other duties of a similar level of responsibility may be required.

Qualifications

• Qualified to Level 6 in careers Guidance
• Level 2 Maths
• Level 2 English

Desirable Criteria

• Level 3 in Education and Training / PTLLS

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Substantial experience in working with young people in a careers advisory capacity
• Experience of delivering impartial CEIAG in a school / college environment
• Experience of writing SMART careers action plans collaboratively with learners / young people
• Experience of empowering and enabling young people to explore their career goals through a variety of formats including 1:1, group work and events
• Supporting young people to make careers related decisions that are informed, realistic and aspirational and lead to positive progression outcomes
• Developing and working within professional networks
• Experience of working with stakeholders including parents.
• Experience of working in a changing…