Careers

There are a multitude of activities happening all year round to help you learn about different careers and prepare for your future. Whether you're in lessons, tutor, or taking part in clubs and events, everything you do helps you build skills for life and work.

GHS Careers framework

Our Careers Advisor is Lucy Gillespie – if you would like a careers appointment, please contact Lucy. careers@golbornehigh.wigan.sch.uk 

Useful website links:

Exploring careers: 

-GMACS - Information on further education routes

- National Careers service - Careers advice
- Unifrog - Platform to explore careers and search for opportunities - Sign in with your GHS email address

- Springpod - Virtual Work experience

- icould - Information and ideas that could inspire young people about their future pathways

- BBC Bitesize careers 

Apprenticeships/Traineeships:

- Apprenticesips

- Amazing Apprenticeships

- Alliance Learning

- GMACS

Post-18 links:
- Not Going to Uni – Nationwide opportunities and ideas for those that have decided that Uni is not for them.

- UCAS – Information on universities
- Russell group information

- Complete University guide

Subject links:

Law  - search for ‘The Beginners Guide to Law’  - www.Lawcareers.net

Travel and tourism  - www.careersthatmove.co.uk

ICT careers  - www.computerscience.org

Psychology careers  - www.bps.org.uk

NHS Careers  - www.healthcareers.nhs.uk & www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk & GM Health & Social Care Careers Hub (gmcareershub.nhs.uk)

Medicine  - BMA - Home | British Medical Association

Engineering  - https://www.thisisengineering.org.uk/ & www.tomorrowsengineers.org.uk

Science  - https://www.sciencebuddies.org/

Sport  - https://careers-in-sport.co.uk

Police Force  - https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/ & https://allpolicejobs.co.uk/

Art and design  - www.creativeskillset.org

Games/Films/TV/VFX/Animation  - https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/

Vet  - https://animalowners.rcvs.org.uk/veterinary-careers

Construction  - www.goconstruct.org.uk

Social Care  - https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Careers-in-care

Hospitality  - http://staging.hospitalityguild.co.uk/Home

Teaching  - www.getintoteaching.org.uk

Army  - https://apply.army.mod.uk/roles

Navy  - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/role-finder

RAF  - https://www.raf.mod.uk/recruitment

Accountancy  - https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/qualifications.html

Our local colleges and training providers websites:

Post-16 open events:

As part of their personal development, pupils will engage in a structured careers curriculum designed to broaden their understanding of future education and employment pathways. This includes developing key employability skills, exploring a range of career sectors, and participating in activities such as employer encounters and workplace experiences to support informed decision making.

GHS Careers framework

Supporting Pupils in Their Career Development

Thinking about life after school is an important step for every student. Each young person’s path is unique, and having support along the way can help them explore the many options available. Here are some ways parents can support pupils as they plan for their future:

Discover What’s Available

Get to know what courses, jobs, or pathways are out there for your child. There are many different routes your child can take after school, including sixth form, college, apprenticeships, university, or going straight into work with training. Understanding these options can help you have more informed conversations at home and guide your child to make choices that suit their interests, skills, and goals.

You don’t need to have all the answers—but knowing where to look, such as 'Planning for the future' document below, talking to our Careers Advisor, or attending parent information evenings, can make a big difference in supporting your child’s future decisions.

Planning for the future

Keep Career Conversations Going

Talking with your child about what they enjoy and what they might want to do after school can help them start thinking about their options.

Even conversations about subjects they like or interests they have can give them confidence and help them feel more prepared for the future.

Stay Open to Different Pathways

There are many different routes young people can take after school—college, sixth form, apprenticeships, university, or going straight into work with training. Some students already have a clear idea of what they want to do, while others are still figuring things out.

It’s not unusual for interests and goals to change over time. Exploring a range of options can help your child discover what suits them best, even if it’s not the path they first expected. Staying open to different ideas can give them the space they need to make informed and confident decisions about their future.

Encourage Them to Use the Support Available

It’s common for young people to have questions or feel uncertain when thinking about their next steps. Having access to support from teachers, careers advisors, or other trusted adults can be really helpful.

Knowing that there are people available to offer advice or guidance can give students confidence as they explore their options and make decisions about their future.

Support Them With Applications

Applying for jobs, apprenticeships, or further education can involve lots of forms and deadlines, which some young people find tricky to manage. Having support to stay organised and understand the process can make it easier and less stressful.

This kind of help can make a big difference in making sure applications are completed on time and with confidence.

There is a range of career events that take place throughout the academic year from Drop Down Days to Careers’ Evenings and you will be informed of these in advance by our normal communications system. Key dates for 2025/2026:

- World of work day - Year 10 Thursday 20th November

- Careers evening - Year 9 - 11 Thursday 20th November 4pm - 7pm

Our Careers Adviser is Lucy Gillespie. All of our pupils are entitled to 1:1 careers advice during their time with us. This occurs more frequently with pupils in year 10 or 11, but Lucy will have contact with all of our pupils over the course of an academic year, either in tutor, drop-down days, assembly or offering group sessions for career advice and support. If you would like an appointment with Lucy – either for an individual pupil at school or together as a family, she is more than happy to accommodate requests. Please contact her via email.

Get in touch with our Careers Adviser

If you are a professional and wish to help us deliver our amazing careers programme, by doing an assembly or a tutorial as part of a lesson, please get in touch with the Careers Lead, Miss Voss who will be able to make you aware of the opportunities we have so you can be part of it!

Get in touch with the Aspirations Leader

The Gatsby Benchmarks were developed on behalf of the Gatsby Foundation by Sir John Holman. They define what world-class careers provision in education looks like and provide a clear framework for organising the careers provision.

The 8 Gatsby Benchmarks are:

1.  A stable careers programme ​
2.  Learning from careers and labour market information  ​
3.  Addressing the needs of each student
4.  Linking curriculum learning to careers
5.  Encounters with employers and employees 
6.  Experiences of workplaces 
7.  Encounters with further and higher education
8.  Personal guidance 

Please use the following websites to make contacts, develop resources, learn about the post-16 pathways, labour market information and to plan how you can weave CEIAG into your daily teaching:

https://icould.com/teaching-resources

https://www.inspiringthefuture.org/secondary-and-colleges/

https://gmacs.co.uk/education-training/

https://icould.com/stories/using-lmi-careers-decisions

https://icould.com/explore/#careerpaths

There are some great resources linked to subject areas at BBC Bitesize Careers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/careers

Our local colleges have a wealth of information on their websites about the pathways pupils can follow for your subject area:

Provider Access Policy
We track and monitor our CEIAG provision internally but also in conjunction with our external colleagues at GMCA using the Compass Tracker.  Our CEIAG provision is reported upon three times per year at the Behaviour and Safety Committee and NEETS/Destinations data is reported upon at Behaviour and Safety and The Standards committee meetings.

DFE Destination Data

If you wish to contact school regarding the CEIAG provision or you wish to come and speak to our pupils about your career or the post-16 pathways that you provide, please contact Miss Voss (Aspirations leader) at svosss@golbornehigh.wigan.sch.uk

Get in touch with the Aspirations Leader

Do you have a recruitment strategy?

As a school – we need your help now, more than ever and we can also help you!  We would like our local employers and employees to help our students fulfil their aspirations and goals.  We want our young people to understand the World of Work and you could help our students develop the required skills needed to meet employer needs and business/industry challenges.

How can you help us?

Think about the skills you would like your workforce to have – perhaps these are skills that are currently lacking and need to be developed in your current and future workforce.  Would you like an opportunity to be proactive and influence the future workforce?

Do these skills align with a particular subject? (Maths – accountancy OR Physics – Engineering for example)

Choose a subject area and register a submission of interest by completing the form through the link below.

Fill-out the Form

Once you complete this form – you will be introduced to a subject teacher that teaches in the curriculum area your profession is most closely aligned with

A phone call will take place between you and the teacher to agree a convenient time to visit the lesson

You visit the class and inspire the pupils and help them to understand the World of Work by bringing along your employer ID and/or your DBS certificate.

If you are a professional and wish to help us deliver our amazing careers programme, by doing an assembly please get in touch with Aspitations Leader, Miss Voss who will be able to make you aware of the opportunities we have so you can be part of it!

Get in touch with the Aspirations Leader

We work to and evaluate our careers’ provision based upon the Career Development Framework and track our careers provision alongside our colleges from GMCA using the Compass Tracker and the Gatsby Benchmarks

Stay Connected: Golborne High School Alumni

If you’re a former pupil of Golborne High School, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Alumni Network is a great way to stay connected and make a positive impact. By sharing your journey, you can help motivate and inspire current students as they explore their own futures. Whether you’d like to offer guidance, deliver a talk, or simply stay in touch, there are many ways to get involved.

To join, please complete the form below and let us know how you’d like to take part.

Alumni Form

Alternatively, you can contact our Aspirations Leader in charge of CEIAG, Miss Voss at the following email address:

Get in touch with the Aspirations Leader