Working within Weston College’s Careers and Employability Team, you will be responsible for providing an effective and responsive careers service across all college campuses. Weston College Careers and Employability Coordinators support our learners to realise their goals, unlock their potential and enable them to develop and grow.This is an exciting and pivotal role, which will require a fully committed individual to play an integral role in delivering the College’s careers programme whilst ensuring that the College meets its statutory duty detailed in the National Careers Strategy and that it meets all eight of the GatsbyBenchmarks. You will work closely with curriculum areas and support services within the College and will therefore play a vital role in ensuring that all college learners are able to progress onto higher level learning and / or into employment.Coordinators will be at the forefront of the delivery of employability skills for learners, as well as leading on securing and managing industry placements for our T Level learners, in addition to supporting faculties to prepare all learners for work placement. Coordinators will therefore link with employers as and when necessary, whilst also being responsible for monitoring work placement outcomes.Post holders will be expected to hold a L6 careers guidance qualification, or be willing to work towards one as part of their role. KEY TASKS AND DUTIES As post-holder, you will be responsible for the following: • 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.• Liaising with subject area managers, teaching staff, and assessment teams to ensure that work placements provide appropriate opportunities for learners to develop and be assessed in both core employability and technical skills relevant to that industry or vocational sector, with a particular focus on T Level industry placements.• Establishing and developing strong relationships with employers by attending relevant industry employer forums, having a clear commitment to ensure that these relationships remain long standing and create talent pipelines for sectors, whilst where appropriate working closely with the College’s Employer and Skills Partnership Team to develop and mobilise new placement opportunities.• Being the key point of contact for learners, parents, and guardians during the work placement period.• Keeping and maintaining a database of past, current, and potential work placements using placement software and the employer CRM system, whilst ensuring that an accurate health and safety record system is maintained and learners are safe when out on industry placement.• Participate in relevant project groups aimed at driving improvements in careers education and industry placements opportunities for learners in specific identified curriculum areas, working with the designated project lead and project team, delivering assigned tasks.• Developing effective relationships with academic and support staff in order to develop careers education and generally to raise awareness of the careers support available.• Provide accurate forecasting and updates regarding progress towards targets, as directed line management and senior management.• Playing a key role in helping the College maintain high retention figures and enabling students to progress onto positive destinations, whether that be further learning, training, or employment.• Keeping up to date on the employment market and with the requirements of employers, including visiting employers and producing reports of visits, and hosting visiting employers.• Contributing to tracking of all CEAIG-related activities and intervention to demonstrate the impact of the service.• Identifying appropriate resources for CEIAG and ensuring that they are used efficiently, effectively, and safely.• Keeping abreast of developments and best practice in careers through research, attendance at training events and conferences, and establishing relationships with peers from other institutions.