Careers Advisor

**Salary**:
Grade 4: £24,947 - £27,062 actual salary per annum pro rata (£27,711 - £30,060 FTE)

**Job type**:
Full Time, Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
01 June 2025

21 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Careers Advisor**

**TTCT Central Team**

**Grade and Salary**:Grade 4: £24,947 - £27,062 actual salary per annum pro rata (£27,711 - £30,060 FTE)

**Working pattern**:37 hours per week / 41 weeks per year

**Contract term**:Permanent

**The role**:
As a Careers Advisor, you will work across member schools within the Trust in order to provide high quality, impartial, information, advice and guidance (IAG) to help young people make well-informed and realistic decisions about their progression routes.

Your role will include the provision of IAG, organising careers events, promoting and co-ordinating work experience as well as establishing an effective network of partners including educational institutions, employers and specialist providers.

**The person**:
**Why join us**

There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career.

We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees.

**We offer**:

- Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities.
- We do not operate appraisal or appraisal related pay progression. All employees participate in our Professional Learning Scheme which supports colleagues to develop their expertise and benefit from valuable professional learning.
- An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts.
- Entry to a career average pension scheme.
- Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust.
- A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals.
- Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career.
- We take**the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter.

**Interviews will be held on: Thursday 03 April 2025.**

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**About**The Two Counties Trust**:
**The Two Counties Trust**
- Ashfield School, Sutton Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG17 8HP
- United Kingdom

+44 1623 259 600

**Welcome to The Two Counties Trust**:
There are many reasons to choose our Trust as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the central team, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

**The Two Counties Trust**:
With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating a