Careers

The Careers Team

Name	Role	Telephone Number	Email Address
Anne Oates	Careers Contact	01609 533951	aoates@selbyprs.n-yorks.sch.uk
Ruth Hudson	Work Experience Contact	01609 533951	rhudson@selbyprs.n-yorks.sch.uk

Careers Education at The Rubicon Centre

At The Rubicon Centre we provide students with a wide range of careers education opportunities.

Our PSHCE 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 both within the school environment and through external visits.

We employ an independent careers advisor who provides students with 1:1 careers support, advice, and guidance.

External Providers

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New Careers Statutory Guidance

The DfE released a new statutory guidance document in January 2018, including a number of new requirements for school careers programmes, most of which are to be met by the end of 2020.

The most immediate requirement is for all schools to have a policy for 'Provider Access' that sets out the arrangements 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.

At The Rubicon Centre we work with a wide range of organisations already but we are always looking for opportunities to further broaden access to information, advice and guidance. We therefore welcome continued input from both existing and potential new partners alike.

Our current careers policy can be found under the policies section of our website.

Your Careers Entitlement

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

The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance	Careers at The Rubicon Centre will provide the following opportunities to meet this benchmark:
1. A stable careers programme	Your whole-school careers programme which: Is written down Is approved by the board of governors Has the backing of senior leadership Has resources allocated to it sufficient to meet the needs of a high-quality career advice and guidance programme for all of our students Has systematic monitoring in place to ensure that the careers programme is meeting the needs of our students Has both strategic and operational elements Is on the school's website with information aimed specifically at: Students Teachers Employers Parents/Carers
2. Learning from career and labour market information	All year groups- access to software e.g. KUDOS, careers area of the library Year 11- every student is offered a 1:1 Careers interview with an independent careers adviser
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil	Provides additional careers guidance to vulnerable students and special educational needs and disability (SEND) students Destination Data monitored by the Careers Lead Year 7: PSHCE Year 8: PSHCE Year 9: PSHCE Year 10: PSHCE Year 11: Careers; a series of presentations conducted by a variety of local colleges explaining the number of courses and pathways that are available post 16, including apprenticeship opportunities. Y11 students have the opportunity to fill in application forms with help where needed to apply for a college course
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers	Links to careers within subject lessons Options assembly, evening and documentation
5. Encounters with employers and employees	Year 11 assembly programme presentations from a range of external providers Drop down days Enterprise Adviser visits Work Experience
6. Experiences of workplaces	Work Experience
7. Encounters with further and higher education	Year 11 programme presentations from Selby College Students supported to attend York College open day
8. Personal guidance	On line Careers matching programmes e.g. KUDOS Year 11 individual careers interviews with an independent advisor
Measuring/assessing Impact	Feedback from students, parents/carers/guardians, teachers and employers as part of the evaluation process Feedback sheets after an event Examine data to check whether there has been a change in progression routes over time Reviewing the progression data for students leaving school Survey students to determine how they rate the careers interview which they have had NEET figures Students maintaining destination figures Analysis of student destinations compared against end of KS4 outcomes
Review Date	Autumn 2019

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