Careers Guidance
Our future careers programme is based on four key principles and is:
- Universal
- Progressive
- Student-centred
- Outcome-focused
Every student is able to access careers guidance which is threaded through the PSHE programme. One-to-one careers advice is usually provided in Years 9, 11 and 13 with additional events, talks, workshops, and trips available throughout the school year.
Careers guidance builds on students’ strengths, skills and personal preferences, encouraging them to think about what they enjoy. Principles of equality and diversity are embedded throughout the programme.
We aim to equip students with the tools they need to find a meaningful onward path at the end of their school career. All our careers activities are planned with care to deliver a broad exposure to professional and technical employment routes and options for further and higher education including apprenticeships.
Collecting feedback and conducting research into student destinations helps us to continuously improve our careers guidance programme. Our programme is monitored for quality and impact including against Gatsby benchmarks.
From our central London location, SBUA has developed partnerships with a range of organisations including major employers, charities, colleges, and universities. We are proud to work with:
- City University of London
- Amplify Trading
- King’s College London
- Efficio
- London South Bank University
- Guy’s and Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Multiverse Harper Collins
- My Personal Finance Skills
- South Bank Colleges
- Hays Recruitment
- Unifrog
- IBM
- University for the Creative Arts
- Kantar
- M&G
- MACE
- Maven Securities
- Morgan Stanley
- Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
- The Old Vic
- The Young Vic
- Charity Partnerships
- Blueprint for All
- Careers and Enterprise Company
- Construction Youth Trust
- Making the Leap
- My Big Career
- National Citizen Service
- Social Mobility Foundation
- Speakers for Schools
- The Talent Foundry
Online careers platform
All students have access to Unifrog, a user-friendly careers platform where they can collate relevant information on college and university courses and apprenticeship programmes in one place. We encourage our students to start building their profile of interests as early as possible and logging their progress as they prepare to make an application.
Links to helpful resources
For students:
- Career Pilot
- iCould
- National Careers Service
- Prospects
- UCAS
For parents:
- Parental Guidance
- Talking Futures
- Youth Employment
If you would like to support our careers programme, please contact
