At Carleton High School we believe that students should be well prepared and well informed in making excellent decisions about their next steps.
We aim to challenge stereotypes, remove barriers and encourage students to consider the full range of careers available both locally and at a national level.
Below is a summary of the careers programme which can be accessed by students, teachers, parents and employers. You will also find the provider access policy along with dates for the next review. We welcome contact from employers who may be able to provide meaningful encounters and support our students by enhancing the well established careers programme. We work closely with the local authority to ensure all of our students are successful in securing appropriate next steps, and as a result have some of the best progression data both locally and nationally. We also collaborate with enterprise advisors from the Leeds City region to share good practice and regularly use the Compass careers analysis tool to further improve the impact of our provision.
Links to our Local Providers
New College Pontefract
Wakefield College
Askham Bryan College
Prospectus UTC Leeds
Work Experience
In the latter stages of year 10 students undertake work experience. This provides a powerful tool for the development of our young people, providing many students with the opportunity to excel in different and demanding circumstances doing much for many individuals’ self esteem. Work experience provides students with the opportunity to find out what it is like having to go to work everyday rather than being a student coming to school and can help them to have a clearer idea of what type of job or career they would like to have in the future. They are encouraged to develop team-working, time-keeping and communication skills as well as using their initiative and facing new challenges. Work experience often helps students to get a job later on when they have left school or possibly a part time job while they are still at school as well as Sixth Form, College and University applications
Work Experience Launch
Link
Work Experience Agreement Consent Form
Career Planning Websites
Icould
This is a really user-friendly site. It has great video clips and many other careers tools
Step into the NHS
There are 350 careers in the NHS. Use this website to watch videos, read case studies and learn more about the largest UK employer, with over 1.3 million employees.
Careers Box
Visit this site to see short videos of lots of people talking about their career, what brought them into it and what their job is really like.
Go Higher West Yorkshire
Help in navigating your higher education options.
National Careers Service
The National Careers Service website provides careers advice and information on a wide range of jobs, training courses, resources and funding. It also has a CV builder and profiles on almost 800 different types of jobs.
Barclays Lifeskills
Apprenticeship Support
Apprenticeships
This is the national site for apprenticeship information and applications. You will need to register an account with them (it is free!).
Yorkshire Learning Provider
Yorkshire Learning Providers is a partnership with purpose, dedicated to developing, promoting & enhancing the education & skills landscape across Yorkshire
Find Apprenticeships
A new way to find and apply for an apprenticeship in England.
Labour Market Information
The term 'labour market' is used to refer to the interactions between those in need of labour (employers or buyers), and those who can supply labour (employees or sellers). Very simply, it is supply and demand of jobs. The labour market is in a constant state of change as it responds to the needs of employers, who in to respond to influences in the wider environment.
Go Higher West Yorkshire
Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers.
It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
Careers Leader
Careers Leader:
Mrs K Rawling - Assistant Headteacher
Contact:
T: 01977 781555
E: admin@carletonhigh.patrust.org.uk