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Careers and Employability Co-ordinator

Job details
Posting date: 03 February 2026
Salary: £34,399 to £38,576 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 February 2026
Location: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 2AL
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Weston College
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: WREQ5792_1770106561

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Summary

As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a Careers and Employability Co-ordinator?

Interviews for this role will take place on-site, at one of our college campuses in Weston-super-Mare.

This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week.

If you want to know more about this role or have any questions, please contact Anna Holton, Head of Careers & Employability using

Day to day duties of the role

  • Counselling students individually about their career choices, often through helping them to understand the range of opportunities available to them and how they can relate their own skills, interests, and values to these opportunities.

  • Designing and delivering careers, education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG), and career planning through tutorials, events and workshops. Whilst exploiting digital capabilities to enhance the careers service offer.

  • Take a lead in ensuring college learners are fully prepared for their work or industry placement and can therefore make the most of the opportunity through the delivery of engaging activity, such as arranging mock interviews.

  • Co-ordinating and monitoring learners whilst they are on work experience placements in industry, including conducting assessments of learners' progress whilst on work placements, in line with the College strategy for work experience or other relevant unit of their technical qualification.

Required skills and qualifications

  • Professional qualification (Level 6) in Careers, Advice, and Guidance.

  • Full UK driving licence.

  • Demonstrable experience of careers guidance in an education setting.

  • High level of self-motivation and initiative with the ability to seek advice and assistance if necessary.

Weston College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please be aware that Weston College reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Due to the volume of recruitment, we are unable to offer feedback to any unsuccessful candidates.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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