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Houseparents – Eddystone House

Houseparents – Eddystone House

Monkton Senior School

Bath

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2019
Apply by:
17 January 2019

Job overview

Monkton is seeking to appoint for September 2019 committed and dedicated Houseparents for Eddystone House. Monkton has a strong Christian ethos and this is reflected in the school’s approach to its pastoral care. 

Eddystone house is situated on Shaft Road, between the main school academic site and two other boarding houses. There are currently around 80 boys in the house with just over 40 boarders nearly all of whom are full-time boarders. The house is split between two adjacent buildings, both handsome Bath stone properties with resident Houseparents or Assistant Houseparents in each.

All enquiries should in the first instance be directed to the HR Manager on 01225 721149.

To apply for the position of Houseparents, candidates are invited to complete the school application form in full and along with a letter of application send it to the HR Manager via recruitment@monkton.org.uk

To download a copy of the application form, please visit www.monktoncombeschool.com 

Closing date: Midday on Thursday 17th January 2019.

Interview date: w/c 21st January 2019.

Monkton Combe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About Monkton Senior School

Our vision: Monkton inspires young people to become confident, kind and ambitious adults who live fulfilling lives.

Our mission: Monkton thinks differently. We start with a proactive pastoral environment to develop academically strong enthusiastic learners within a living Christian ethos.

Our values: Confidence, Humility, Integrity, Service 

If you share this vision for a different way of doing schooling, then applying for a role at Monkton could be a professionally life-changing decision. We take our staff development seriously - in fact as seriously as we take our students’ development; both constituencies share the same aims:

‘A community empowered by its growth mindset, consistently evaluating and re-evaluating progress, acknowledging failure, celebrating success, setting new targets and constantly improving’

A coaching culture sits at the heart of our professional development strategy to enable our colleagues to reflect and explore their next steps. Our partnership with the Expansive Education Network run by Prof Bill Lucas at Winchester University means there is even the scope to engage in supported action research.

Boarding is part of the ethos of Monkton rather than a description of where some of its students stay the night. Many of the day students, who make up about 40% of the student body, often stay till 8.30 or later in the evening. ‘After school’ has more to do with university than tea time.

As such, teachers who thrive at Monkton understand and engage with this ethos as part of the vocation of choosing to teach here. Learning, for a Monkton teacher, happens as much in the classroom as outside it. 

We aim to develop positive attitudes to learning which build on self-regulation and the notion of neuroplasticity. Students are engaged in growing their self-awareness and setting their own targets helped with a 1-1 tutoring programme which emphasises the tutor as coach rather than mentor.

Our pastoral care is market leading: in partnership with Mind.world we pioneered their groundbreaking pastoral tracking system which helps us track and improve our students’ emotional development. This is now used in leading schools around the UK and the world; Monkton is central as a key training hub.

Monkton is set in the beautiful Midford valley, just 3 miles outside Bath. The campus is an inspirational place to live and work, with Georgian Bath stone buildings blended with innovative modern design capturing a school with a clear heritage but 21st century aspirations. 

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