The Careers Team

Careers Education at The Rubicon Centre

At The Rubicon Centre we provide students with a range of careers education opportunities in:

• Timetabled lessons: Our Personal Development (ASK) curriculum has specific career based units of work, with identified learning objectives, outcomes and related activities.  Alongside this students have a number of opportunities to experience work related activities in other subjects
• Careers advice: We support students in gaining qualified advice and guidance from their home school services and facilitate meetings with Qualified Careers Advisors if needed.  If we plan and provided careers advice to students, advice is recorded by the advisor and shared with students via their account on the school IT network.  Staff can assist with accessing this information if needed.
• Bespoke curriculum: We offer some students the opportunity to complete The Rubicon Award which supports soft-skill develpoment, personal growth and resilience.

Please see the links at the bottom of this page for more details on how students' transferable work skills are developed across our teaching and delivery.

External Providers

We strive to work with appropriate agencies with each year group and enjoy links with

• NYBEP - Work Experience Provider
• The Careers & Enterprise Company and our linked Enterprise Advisors and Coordinators
• Local FE providers including York College and Selby College
• A local Independent Careers Advisor.

We welcome enquiries or offers of support from any employer, training provider, college or other providers to contact us at the details at the top of the page.  We would particularly like to hear from any individual or organisation who may wish to support our young people in any of the following areas;

• Work experience
• Careers support and advice
• Supporting in-school workshops
• Tours or visits to workplaces
• Access to Independent Training Providers

Impact Measures

To support future planning and to inform us of the impact of our careers education, students, teachers and external providers are asked to complete the review forms found below.  Students are also asked to share ideas about their own future employment and aspirations on a termly basis.  This supports their key tutor in supporting them to set appropriate Aim Higher targets to aid them in reaching their career goal.

Career aspirations are recorded centrally for review, planning and guidance opportunities.

Careers education is also assessed termly in line with Compass+ and the linked Leadership Review, an online careers education assessment tool and action planned accordingly.

We promote application to further education, apprenticeships. traineeships and training programmes and track student applications and subsequent enrolment in line with statutory duty.

Employer, Student and Teacher Feedback

Data and information gathered from the above feedback forms is reviewed at least once a year to inform planning and progression.  Responses are immediately available to the Careers Leader.

Careers Statutory Guidance: Gatsby Benchmarks

Careers Policy

Our current careers policy can be found under the policies section of our website.  It supports the requirement for school to meet the requirements of The Gatsby Benchmarks.  

The Gatsby Benchmarks

The Gatsby Benchmarks were developed on behalf of the Gatsby Foundation by Sir John Holman. They define what world class careers provision in education looks like and provide a clear framework for organising the careers provision in school.

Provider Access Statement

Provider Access arrangments set out the protocol for managing the access of providers to students at the school for the purposes of giving them information about the provider’s education or training offer. Details can be found in the links at the bottom of the page.

Student Careers Entitlement

As a Rubicon student your careers programme is based around the government's Gatsby Benchmarks:

Careers Statutory Guidance: The Baker Clause

The Baker Clause stipulates that schools must allow colleges and training providers access to every student in years 8- 13 to discuss technical career path routes that are available to them. 

The Baker Clause ensures that we

• Act impartially and not show bias towards any route, be that academic or technical
• Promote the full range of technical options including T-Levels and Apprenticeships
• Open our doors to all education and training providers to talk to any student who may benefit
• Help students become aware of different qualification types as well as their associates benefits
• Continue to improve or maintain 100% achievement against the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks
• Make sure our governing bodies and senior leadership review policies and procedures relating to careers education

Are you a Training Provider or Employer?

We want to hear from you!

Please use the contact details at the top of the page to start discussing how we can work together to support the needs of young people at The Rubicon Centre.

Are you a parent or carer and want to know more?

Do you have questions about careers education, post-16 options or independent careers advice?

Please speak with your child's allocated a Key Tutor. Their Key Tutor will contact you regularly, which offers the opportunity to share any queries you have.  You will also be invited to termly reviews where you may also have the opportunity to speak with your child's careers tutor.

You may also contact the Careers Leader directly using the information at the top of this page.

Information about post-16 study can be found in the links at the bottom of this page and includes details on the National Careers Service.  A website dedicated careers information.