The Westminster Specialist College – Careers Programme 2023/2024
Our careers programme is mapped to The Eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance.
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences and workplaces
- Encounters with further high education
- Personal guidance
Click the link below to download The College Career Programme
Please see below for some useful links and resources …
Work Ready Rubric – The work ready Rubric is used during work placements to assess young person placement readiness to move through the tiered work experience model to bring them closer to an independent placement, internship or apprenticeship
vocational-profile—editable – a document we use to support students to look at what job they would like to do in the future and what support they might need to do it. It includes all their strengths and weaknesses and also has information on about any learning difficulties or disability that they may have. ( Online version)
final-vocational-profile-print-version – same as above but printable version
black-country-vocational-profile-support-document –A document to support the completion of the vocational profile
https://yourfutureblackcountry.com/ – The site features a number of different career paths young people can enter with no formal or minimal qualifications due to their SEND needs. Careers and labour market information (LMI) can be hard to navigate especially for our pupils with SEND. This site will allow access to easily digestible information relating to accessible career pathways, skills needed for those jobs, employment sectors and salaries.
https://www.skillsbuilder.org/universal-framework – We use The Skills Builder Universal Framework as it is the world’s leading tool for measuring and building essential skills. It breaks the 8 essential skills down into a sequence of steps.