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Assistant Head of Learning Support

Assistant Head of Learning Support

Bedales School

Petersfield, Hampshire

Salary:
Commensurate with experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
1 September 2020

Job overview

We wish to appoint an outstanding and well-qualified teacher to join our team. This post is full time and involves undertaking preparation, teaching, reporting and other associated work.  It is based on a teaching timetable of 28, 35-minute lessons per week with an Assistant Head of Department lesson reduction of 4 lessons per week.

Our school is a unique educational establishment, set in the beautiful Hampshire countryside. Our aim is to create an environment where questioning, divergent thinking and freedom to learn from mistakes are all encouraged. Central to our success is the sense that each person is a member of our community whose voice is entitled to be heard and treated with respect. Our staff and students expect of each other the best kind of relationships – co-operative, authentic and trustful.

We are looking for someone with the enthusiasm, skills and commitment to build on the success that our team is currently enjoying at Bedales. Candidates should hold Qualified Teacher Status and an additional qualification in teaching students with SEND or SpLD. The ability to play an effective part in a team and build positive rapport with students is essential.  You should also be keen to play a full and inclusive role in the life of our busy boarding community, and be able to contribute to the development of our innovative school.

The successful candidate will ideally start in September 2020.

Benefits

Our benefits include onsite parking, free school lunches during term-time, life assurance, pension and personal accident cover.

For further information and to apply, please visit: https://www.bedales.org.uk/our-school/about-bedales/job-vacancies 

Closing date: 9:00am, Thursday 4 June 2020.

Interview dates: Tuesday 9 June & Wednesday 10 June 2020.

Recruitment and advertising agency support not required for this vacancy.

Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All teaching posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful applicants will undergo safeguarding screening including an enhanced DBS and Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Prohibition from Teaching Check.

About Bedales School

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  • Bedales School
  • Church Road, Steep, Petersfield
  • Hampshire
  • GU32 2DG
  • United Kingdom
+44 1730 300100

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Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.

Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”

Headteacher

Will Goldsmith

Values and vision

The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness

ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”

View Bedales School’s ISI report

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