Preparing for Ofsted as a Careers Leader

Overview

There are many types of careers leader. Those who come from a teaching background, those who come from a careers adviser setting. Those who have been neither, or both. Those who have been in the role for a long time, those new to the role. However, all these ‘types’ of careers leader face the challenge of getting ready for an Ofsted’s inspection.

The latest inspection framework includes an area of judgement called personal development which incorporates most of the work that comes under the auspices of the careers leader. Thus indicating a heightened interest by Ofsted in the work of the careers department.

Learning Outcomes

· To understand the requirements of the Ofsted framework pertinent to the careers department

· To be able to support SLT in understanding the needs of the careers department to be able to meet these requirements

· To understand the basics of record keeping that Ofsted will need to see.

· To leave the course with a good basis to start planning for an Ofsted inspection.

PARTICIPANTS should have a good general understanding of the Gatsby Benchmarks and bring with them their CEIAG and access policy along with an overview of their careers programme and their departmental development plan if they have one..

Target audience

This course is aimed at careers leaders and their managers to help them understand the transition in the way that careers learning will be inspected and the implications this may have on workload, time and resources.