Employers & Training Providers
At Huish Academy we are busy growing your employees of the future. We welcome the help of local businesses to raise the career aspirations of our students, develop their employability skills and learn more about the exciting industries in Somerset.
We welcome Training Providers and employers to come into school and talk to our students. Please see our Provider Access Policy for more information and contact details.
How Employers and Training Providers Can Help Our Students:
- Book to attend our Careers Fair which we run each summer
- Give a short careers talk about your company, apprenticeship scheme, your role and career path and answer students’ questions.
- Providing Work Experience to our students. Year 10s and Year 12s complete a five-day placement in July. We currently work with 215 businesses and always welcome more.
- Assisting with the Year 10 Mock Interview event. This is in May and around 60 interviewers are needed for either one full day or two to give all our Year 10 students an interview experience.
- We aim where possible to bring careers and workplace application into curriculum lessons. We welcome links with employers who can contribute to a specific subject department by either allowing students to visit their company on a school trip, or come into school to deliver an aspect of subject curriculum to a class.
- If you have an apprenticeship you wish to fill, please email details to our Careers Leader and this will be forwarded to the students who are planning the workplace and looking for that type of employment.
If you are able to assist or would like to find out more information about the work of our Careers department, please email our Careers Leader Emma Higman on emmahigman@hea.ac.uk
Huish Episcopi Academy has the benefit of a key business volunteer who works with us on a strategic level, encouraging the development of our careers programme and connecting us to the business community across the county. This role is recognised nationally as an Enterprise Adviser (EA) and they are part of the Somerset Careers Hub community of support driving the connection between careers education and the business sector. Our Enterprise Adviser is Martin Symons from Heidelberg Materials/ Hansons.
