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:

Please check out the pupil's careers page to learn more about our provision for careers at our school!

Careers Page

We encourage all parents to engage with the latest labour market information (LMI) in our region through the GMACS website

LMI includes information such as job roles and descriptions, average salary ranges and whether demand for job types is expected to grow or decline.

You can learn more about Greater Manchester’s labour market on Bridge GM. The careers website icould.com explains how you can use LMI to help shape career decisions.

Bridge GM Website

How to use LMI to help shape career decisions.

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.

Our Careers Adviser is Lucy Gillespie and 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

Here is a list of useful websites that will help in taking the big steps ahead and the transition from KS4 to Post-16 and beyond!

GMACS – our Greater Manchester website for all things local in terms of careers, including advice, tips, hints, links to apprenticeships and a multitude of resources about our local labour market

National Careers Service – Provide careers information, advice and guidance and help you to make decisions on learning, training and work at all stages in your career

icould is a brilliant website for young people, parents, carers and educators.  It has many resources such as quizzes, videos, labour market information and is brimming with ideas that could inspire young people about their future pathways

BBC bitesize careers - Whether you’re deciding what to study, taking your exams, planning a career, or just curious, BBC bitesize explains the world of work, with advice from people who've found the right path for them.

Not Going to Uni – this is a fab website full of resources and THOUSANDS of nationwide opportunities and ideas for those that have decided that Uni is not for them.

SPRINGPOD – This is a KEY WEBSITE that students sign up for to provide them with virtual work experience placements, university experiences and apprenticeship advice.  There are also several university subject spotlights that are regularly updated with short talks to inform students about the nature of those subjects before they apply

UCAS – Contains all the information about every university and course offered in the UK and details of every degree offered and also information about apprenticeships – choose your future!

Informed choices – This website allows pupils to explore what university courses they could apply to with their specific choice of A levels and qualifications

Information About A Levels

Our local colleges and training providers – these websites are essential for those that are in year 9 or above to complete the necessary research about the kind of post-16 provision you would like to apply for in the future. The websites of the colleges and training providers we work most closely with are posted below:

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 Assistant Headteacher, Miss Hugill 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

Are you an ex-Golborne High School Pupil who would like to give something back to our popular and successful school?

If so, you could join our Alumni and help to inspire the next generation!

Being a member of the Alumni can be as active as you wish – from coming into school and delivering motivational talks, or perhaps mentoring pupils who may be finding it hard to engage.  It is up to you.

Please use this form to become a part of the Alumni and to give your preferences regarding how involved you would like to be with the aims and objectives of our provision.

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