Careers Lead

**Salary**: Pay Scale: HAY Grade 9 (points 27 to 34 £40,008 - £46,056 FTE), 36 hours per week for 40 weeks a year **Job type**: Full Time, Permanent **Start date**: January 2025 19 November 2024 **Job overview**: **Job Role: Careers Lead** **Pay Scale**:HAY Grade 9 (points 27 to 34 £40,008 - £46,056 FTE), 36 hours per week for 40 weeks a year We are seeking to appoint a dedicated, well-qualified and skilled** Careers Lead **to join our welcoming, successful and growing school. The role leads the school’s Careers Program, overseeing and delivering the careers work to ensure the effective impact for students in their academic success, career aspirations and future destinations. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the academic and aspirational development of students and is suitable for those with significant patrol experience in schools. The position begins **in January 2025 or as soon as possible.** **Our School and Trust**: - Opening in 2016 to Year 7 and having welcomed our first Year 13s in September 2022, The Charter School East Dulwich is an oversubscribed, fully inclusive, diverse, mixed 11-18 comprehensive. - Access for all, to high quality Teaching and Learning is a priority, with our Year 11 cohort excelling in their GCSEs last year including a Progress 8 score of +0.46 - The school leadership builds on strong foundations to ensure standards of excellence, and a culture where all students and staff are given breadth of opportunity, and are valued. - As part of The Charter School Educational Trust we benefit from The Charles Dickens Research School, The London South Teaching Hub and working with a team of schools committed to excellence in education in South-East London. **We are looking for a colleague who**: - Is a skilled, versatile and dynamic leader with a passion for delivering excellent careers provision to students across Years 7 to 11. - Is able to lead a fast-paced and wide-reaching pastoral team with vision, dedication and care. - Consistently models excellent practice and has students' progress and personal development at the core of their professional motivation - Wants an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant, diverse and growing organisation. - Is keen to work collaboratively with the wider pastoral and academic leadership teams. **In return, you will get**: - The chance to work in a highly successful and positive school which achieves excellent results - The opportunity to work with colleagues from across a diverse and growing Trust - A professionally stimulating and collaborative working environment in a school that prioritises staff well-being, support and professional development. We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, and staff networks to provide a supportive environment in the workplace where members can receive peer to peer support. **How to apply** or call on 0203 873 2290. Please note CVs are not accepted. No agencies please. **Closing Date**: Tuesday 19th November 2024 **Interviews**:W/C 25 November 2024 **About **The Charter School East Dulwich**: **The Charter School East Dulwich** - Jarvis Road- London- SE22 8RB- United Kingdom+44 20 3873 2290 The Charter School East Dulwich exists to inspire young people from across its diverse local community to develop the character and expertise they need to succeed in adult life - personally, economically and in good citizens. We teach our students to be curious, creative, courageous and caring. They will leave us happy in themselves, excited about their future and ambitious to achieve. ‍ The Charter School East Dulwich provides a holistic education that allows all of our students to develop the character and expertise they need to succeed in life - personally, economically and as good citizens. All students study at least to GCSE level. The School curriculum builds methodically on the foundations laid in primary school. It is coherently sequenced to provide all students with the opportunity to progress to the next stage of their education, be it academic, professional or vocational. ‍ The curriculum is made ‘desirably difficult’ for all students. Every individual receives the right combination of support and challenge to achieve their personal best, irrespective of background or personal circumstance. The School makes generous provision for a range of enrichment activities through which students further develop the individual interests and aptitudes that allow them to flourish. ‍ The curriculum explicitly encourages students to have confidence in themselves, care for each other and their environment, be curious about the world and have the courage and creativity to change it for the better. **Headteacher** **Alison Harbottle** **Ofsted** The Charter School East Dulwich's sibling school, The Charter School, has been rated "outstanding" by Ofsted since 2009.