Teachers and Support Staff will:

  • Encourage students to achieve and to be ambitious in their choice of career

  • Work to ensure that no student is disadvantaged in gaining access to education, training or work

  • Ensure the advice they give is accurate, up to date and impartial

  • Provide resources and advice to enable students to understand and develop career choices

  • Promote an understanding of the world of work and the ability to respond to changing opportunities at all ages

  • Link curriculum learning to careers

  • Enhance independent research skills so that students can make good use of information and guidance

  • Encourage students to use their self-knowledge and knowledge of the labour market when thinking about and making choices

  • Help students to develop the skills they need to review achievements, plan future actions, make decisions, present themselves well and cope with change and transition

  • Ensure students have access to, and be able to use, a variety of careers information

  • Ensure students know who can, and will, help them make decisions

  • Ensure students are able to complete an application form and prepare a Curriculum Vitae

  • Offer a meaningful encounter with at least one employer a year

  • Give students the opportunity to experience a workplace by the end of Year 11

  • Offer students encounters with further and higher education providers

  • Provide Personal guidance via a suitably qualified careers professional