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James Wilmot - Director of Careers is the trust-wide ‘Careers Lead’. James is a Psychology Graduate with many years’ experience of private sector recruitment and public sector careers advice. James joined TPLT in 2015. A Careers Office is placed centrally in each school. They are open from 8.00am - 4.00pm Monday to Friday.

James manages a team of qualified Careers Advisors with one placed within each school to provide impartial 121 advice and guidance for each student while running a range of appropriate and impactful careers events and activities to benefit our students.

Jodie Silmon- PCSA. Leeza Cuthbertson- WCSA. Nina Sinclair- TKASA.

You can speak to a member of the team by calling each school or by e-mailing james.wilmot@theplt.org.uk

We might not be able to talk if we are already with a student, but we will return your call within 24 hours

You can follow on Twitter for regular updates and ‘like’ school Facebook pages

We traditionally run a wide range of careers related events and activities throughout the year such as work experience week, mock interview days as well as college an 6th form taster days. Each school runs its own calendar of events and each differs slightly.

A monthly careers and events bulletin is circulated by tutors, emailed to parents/carers, and updated on each school’s Facebook page, screens and noticeboards.

Each school’s careers programme is assessed termly against Gatsby benchmarks in partnership with The Careers & Enterprise Company. We comply 100% with all 8 Gatsby benchmarks.

A document outlining our trust-wide careers programme can be found here.

Specific school careers events and activities can be found below:

National NEET average is 11.9%. More details here-

The 2023 NEET figures for ²ÝÁñÉçÇø are 3% for WCSA, less than 1% for PCSA and 3% for TKASA. All students and their families have been contacted with offers of further support and links to more specialist support networks.

Study and employment destinations for the class of 2023. Our students progress to a wide variety of 6th forms, colleges and apprenticeships…

WCSA 2023 Year 11 progression:

• 86% progressed to a college for A Levels or vocational diplomas (Weston, Bridgwater & Taunton, SGS, Boomsatsuma, City of Bristol, Access Creative and Bristol Robins Foundation)
• 6% went on to study A Levels at a Sixth Form (The King Alfred School Academy, WHA, Sidcot School and Taunton School)
• 3% began an Apprenticeship / work based learning
• Less than 1% furthered their education through the Royal Navy
• Less than 1% furthered their education with Bristol City Football Club
• 3% are NEET and further support has been offered
• 1% moved into employment without training and further support has been offered

PCSA 2023 Year 11 progression:

• 85% progressed to a college for A Levels or vocational diplomas (Weston, Bridgwater & Taunton, SGS, Boomsatsuma, Access Creative, Winterstoke Hundred Academy and Bristol Robins Foundation)
• 12% went on to study A Levels at a Sixth Form (The King Alfred School Academy, Churchill Academy and Backwell Academy)
• 1% began an apprenticeship / work based learning
• Less than 1% furthered their education through traineeships or approved volunteering
• Less than 1% NEET and support has been offered
• Less than 1% moved into employment without training and support has been offered

TKASA 2023 Year 11 progression:

• 57% progressed to a college for A levels, T levels or vocational diplomas (Weston, Bridgwater & Taunton, SGS, Boomsatsuma, Access Creative, WHA, Bristol Robins Foundation, etc)
• 30% progressed to a school 6th form
• 6% progressed to apprenticeships
• 3% furthered their education through employment & training but not an apprenticeship
• 3% NEET
• 1% could not be reached

If you are a college, 6th form or training provider and would like to talk to us about how you can access our students and promote for offer, please read our access policy document HERE.