Our Careers Programme is designed to help you develop the skills, confidence and experience you need to achieve your goals and make informed decisions about your future.
Throughout the year, all students will have access to:
- a qualified careers adviser for personal and impartial career guidance
- careers education sessions designed to help you identify your strengths, aspirations and support you to explore opportunities and make positive choices
- support from a Personal Tutor
- internal work experience opportunities that link to your goals and area of study
- external work experience opportunities that link to your goals and area of study
- support to create a CV
- support to practice taking part in interviews to build your confidence
- opportunities to find out about apprenticeships and further education courses and help applying
- inspiring guest speakers and workshops
- visits to inspire your future career choices
- annual careers event where you can meet people from local colleges, employers, training providers and community organisations to get information about career options and support services
Gatsby Benchmarks
Our Careers Programme is based on the eight Gatsby Benchmarks to ensure we offer good career guidance to all our students.
They eight Gatsby Benchmarks are:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information.
- Addressing the needs of each student
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
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Our vision
Greenbank’s vision is that everyone should be able to achieve their full potential and feel valued for the contribution that they can make to everyday life and society.
Greenbank College strives to ensure that its learners are given the best preparation for the future through high-quality careers information, advice and guidance and meaningful encounters and opportunities with employers, training providers, education providers, apprenticeship providers and community organisations.
As a major provider of education and training for Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) students, Greenbank seeks to address very low levels of inclusion of SEND people within the workplace and to increase aspirations for all by building links with local employers and delivering employability skills within a structured programme.
How do we deliver our careers programme?
Our Careers Strategy and our Careers Programme is based on the eight Gatsby Benchmarks to ensure that we offer a stable and structured programme of high-quality career education to all our students.
We deliver this through:
- an embedded programme of careers education and personal development, complemented by enrichment activities, internal and external work experience, encounters with education and training providers, inspiring guest speakers and industry visits.
- Personal Guidance meetings with bespoke action plans.
- Learner Voice. We collect feedback from our learners to see how confident they feel about the future, their skills and their career choices. This data is used to inform an annual ‘Career Theme’, which learners work on and discuss in class. Previous themes have focused on problem-solving, communication, the visitor economy, creative & digital and jobs of the future.
- Visual resources designed to help learners plan their journey, reach their goals and think positively about the future, such as career maps, career trees and visual aids created with the input of a Speech & Language Therapist to enable learners with more complex needs to express their ideas and thoughts.
- Partnerships with external agencies and organisations to give learners the chance to experience the world of work and education first-hand.
Who to contact about careers?
- Amanda Tozer is the Career & IAG Lead at Greenbank and she holds a Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Career Development. Her role is to provide impartial career guidance to our learners, support with applications, CV writing and mock interviews and to coordinate the planning and delivery of our careers programme through staff training, audits and workshops.
- If you wish to book a guidance meeting or speak to Amanda, you can pop in to Room G32 or send her an e-mail: amanda.tozer@greenbank.org.uk
- Sophie Preece is our Recruitment & Work Placement Coordinator. If you wish to discuss work experience opportunities, you can contact her on: sophie.preece@greenbank.org.uk
Useful Links
Greenbank College Careers Strategy