Job Description
Temporary Careers Advisor - Term-Time Only
Location: Birmingham Hours: 36.5 per week, Term-Time Only (38 weeks)Contract Type: TemporarySalary: £15 - £23 per hour including holiday pay DBS: Enhanced DBS check required
About the Role
We're looking for a passionate Careers Advisor to join our Student Services team and help students reach their full potential. You'll provide one-to-one and group careers guidance, support employability skills, and help students navigate their next steps in education, training, or employment.
What You'll Be Doing
- Deliver tailored careers advice to students and staff
- Run engaging group sessions on job search skills, progression routes, and higher education
- Support students with general advice on welfare, admissions, and additional support
- Promote careers events and maintain up-to-date resources
- Build links with external agencies and stay informed about local opportunities
What We're Looking For
- Level 6 qualification in Careers/IAG
- Experience in providing careers guidance or working in student support
- Strong communication and organisational skills
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting student welfare
- Knowledge of the local labour market and educational pathways (including apprenticeships & T-Levels)
Benefits of working for Reed Further Education/our client:
- Exclusive representation to leading FE colleges, prisons, and training providers in the area
- A specialist further education consultant who will search for jobs on your behalf
- A Health Cash Plan and Reed Discount Club
- Entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay, Parental Leave and Antenatal/Pre-Adoption Appointment Payment
- Access to Training and Development - Reed Assessment Centre - Reed Learning.
- Great referral bonus'
- Access to roles throughout the UK and online/remote learning
At Reed, we believe that experience is just as important as qualifications. So, if you have experience in teaching others, we encourage you to start your registration today. You'll be joining a team of passionate professionals who provide the best possible education to the students of our clients.
To apply for this role, please send us your updated CV by clicking 'Apply Now'.
Not looking for teaching roles? We are also registering teaching assistants, learning support assistants, learning mentors and technicians through to other FE positions including HR, finance, facilities, administrators. We also have a specialist team of interim and senior management consultants with over 20 years' experience in the sector.
Reed Further Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment by undergoing a 2 year' employment check and a DBS Application, completing mandatory training within 6 weeks of your first assignment and annually thereafter.
Thank you for your interest in working with Reed Further Education. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
