Careers and Employability Co-ordinator

Overview

If you want to know more about this role or have any questions, please contact Anna Holton, Head of Careers & Employability using Day to day duties of the role

• Counselling students individually about their career choices, often through helping them to understand the range of opportunities available to them and how they can relate their own skills, interests, and values to these opportunities.
• Designing and delivering careers, education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG), and career planning through tutorials, events and workshops, whilst exploiting digital capabilities to enhance the careers service offer.
• Take a lead in ensuring college learners are fully prepared for their work or industry placement and can therefore make the most of the opportunity through the delivery of engaging activity, such as arranging mock interviews.
• Co-ordinating and monitoring learners whilst they are on work experience placements in industry, including conducting assessments of learners  progress whilst on work placements, in line with the College strategy for work experience or other relevant unit of their technical qualification.

• Professional qualification (Level
  6) in Careers, Advice, and Guidance.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Demonstrable experience of careers guidance in an education setting.
• High level of self-motivation and initiative with the ability to seek advice and assistance if necessary.
• Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a Careers and Employability Co-ordinator? Interviews for this role will take place on-site, at one of our college campuses in Weston-super-Mare. This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week.