Trust Careers Advisor and Co-Ordinator - Waverley School

Vacancy Reference: JOB002173
Job Title: Trust Careers Advisor and Co-Ordinator
Job Start Date: 1 October 2024
Salary Range: Grade 4 £32,076 - £39,186 Term Time Only + Two Weeks during summer Approximate Actual salary - £29,571
Hours Per Week: 36.5
Working Pattern: Term time only + 2 weeks
School Address: Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Contact Email: Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 27 September 2024, 10:00am
Job Information: To start - ASAP

Waverley School became an all-through school in September 2012. At Waverley, we create an environment, which allows everyone to develop mutual respect for each other and a respect for learning.

This is an exciting time to join Waverley Education Foundation Trust. We have landmark buildings equipped with state of the art and design technology facilities for teaching, learning and training. As part of the exciting growth plans for the Trust, we are expanding our team to meet future requirements across the Trust.

We are looking for a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team as Careers Advisor and Co-Ordinator.

The ideal applicant will support all students attending Waverley School and Waverley Studio College receive excellent and impartial CEIAG; you will empower staff across the Trust to support the CEIAG agenda and to signpost students to appropriate, professional sources of IA. The ideal applicant also needs to have excellent communication skills and the ability to forge strong working relationships.

The school’s most recent inspection report, Ofsted (November 2021) commented that ‘Pupils are happy to come to this school…. and the curriculum is ambitiously designed to stretch pupils regardless of their starting point.’

The successful candidate will need to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Waverley Education Foundation Trust is committed to the protection and safety of its students.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on the schools application form will be accepted.

Closing Date: 27 September 2024, 10:00am
: This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
: How to Apply:

For an application pack please visit our website: www.thewef.org.uk

The closing date for applications is Friday 27th September 2024 at 10:00am

Completed applications should be sent to Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk

Applications received after this date and time will not be considered. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. For further enquiries please call 0121 566 6607.
Safeguarding: This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References: All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates: An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Terms and Conditions: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
: Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
: Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.