Hours: 36.5 (Term time only + 2 weeks)
Contract Type: Permanent
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Start Date: 6 January 2025
Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 students on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership & management and improve outcomes for children and young people.
Waverley School is an all through school for students aged 4-19. It also has a Resource Base for students with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 students including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.
Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do.
“Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles” – Ofsted 2021
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 to 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.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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.
Only applications submitted on the school's application form will be accepted.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff 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.
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. This 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.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Closing Date: 28 November 2024, 10:00am
How to Apply:
For an application pack please visit our website: www.thewef.org.uk
Completed applications should be sent to Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk
Applications received after the closing 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.
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