8. Personal Guidance
Kelly Hill
Riversides School careers adviser
Hi I’m Kelly and I am the independent Careers Advisor at Riversides School. I work for SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disability Information Advice and Support Service) covering Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and I provide Careers support across four sites in the Central Learning Partnership Trust. I am also a qualified social worker and my previous roles have included supporting vulnerable young people with acute mental health needs, learning and physical disabilities, in hospital settings, schools, and in the community.
I am based at Riversides on Tuesdays and support young people on a 1:1 and group basis to create action plans to make informed choices about their future career, college and F.E. applications, and transition to adulthood. I can also support parents if you have any questions about careers, EHCPs, or Post 16 options. You can contact me via school or by email: kelly.hill@riversidesschool.co.uk
Parents/carers are welcome to contact Kelly Hill if they have any questions or queries.
Personal Guidance
Why this matters
- We want our students to continue with their education/ training/ apprenticeship and not become NEET (not in education, employment or training)
- They provide specific and individualised transition planning that identifies potential pathways
- Listening to students’ initial ideas, qualifications, skills, experiences, circumstances and life aims
- Helping students to identify and explore suitable options and to consider the career implications of subject and course choice that are in their best interests and not those of any particular provider.
- Challenge any pre-existing assumptions and parents and carers about what they are capable of.
- Looking at and learning from the labour market systems and helping students and parents to understand progression pathways.
- Developing practical strategies on how to achieve their goals.
- Building students’ persistence, motivation and confidence and helping them to see how to overcome barriers that prevent them from moving forward.
School practice
- Every student has access to continual guidance and support with our trained careers adviser, who is trained at an appropriate level.
- The personal guidance helps develop self-awareness, practising decision making- skills and setting achievable goals.
- Personal plans are set up and changed and adapted throughout the year.
- Parents/ carers are included and informed throughout the 1:1 sessions.
- Our careers adviser sets up visits to providers/ alternative provision or colleges to support individual students.
- As well as 1:1 meetings with our career’s adviser which happens termly or more often if needed, students also attend weekly careers lesson and are supported by class tutors.
- Careers adviser attends students yearly annual reviews.
- Our careers adviser organises a careers fair within our local Trust schools for our students to visit.
- Our careers adviser supports our careers development programme as well supporting employment provider visits.
- Supporting the three-year destination-if students are struggling and drop out of Post 16 provision, our careers adviser will support to find alternative placements.
Evidence
- Individual profiles
- Case studies
- Feedback from visits
- Pupil voice
