Careers Coach

Would you like to support young people in their achievement and progression to further/higher education or employment? Buckinghamshire College Group have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, talented and highly organised individual to join our Creative & Enterprise curriculum team as a Careers Coach delivering subject specialist career and personal development sessions in order to aid young people in their career pathways.

Reporting to the Curriculum Manager, and working closely with curriculum teams, Careers Coaches will support classes of students, throughout their time at Buckinghamshire College Group, including the monitoring of attendance to support high standards and expectations across the study programme.

This role is term time only (38weeks), 15.75hrs per week based at our Amersham Campus. This is a Fixed term role until July 2023 in the first instance.

We will encourage you to develop new skills and expand your opportunities within the college. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible. While working at Buckinghamshire College Group you can also take advantage of a host of employee benefits including:

• Pension scheme – LGPS (18.3% employer contribution)

• Free onsite parking

• A wide range of learning - access to free training & continuous professional development

• Discounts in the Aylesbury Day Nursery & Aylesbury Salon Intuition

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Cycle to work and local business employee corporate discount schemes

Here at Buckinghamshire College Group, we are passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities to achieve their learning goals and life aspirations. You will find a warm welcome at all of our campuses in; Aylesbury, Amersham and High Wycombe, where we are a thriving community of over 590 Staff and 7,000 students and we are sure that whatever your aspirations and career goals, we can help you to achieve them.

This College does one of the most important jobs in the country - educating people of all ages to help them to succeed in life and create the skills society needs. Moreover, we do it well. We have high standards, with good success rates for students and more students joining us each year.

Our staff are the most important resource that the College has in securing this success. We therefore value our staff highly and offer a competitive reward and benefits package.

We hope you will want to be part of Buckinghamshire College Group and we very much look forward to welcoming you.

Commitment to Safeguarding

BCG is committed to equal opportunities for all, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and staff alike; all posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks.

If you feel, you have the expertise and drive to support our students we look forward to hearing from you. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Only completed applications will be considered for this role. All applicants will need to complete an application form via our College Website.

For more information on the role please contact HR directly.

Closing date for applications is the 13th February 2022, with interviews taking place on 23rd & 24th February 2023