Senior School Housemistress
Malvern St James
Worcestershire
- £27,275 - £35,746 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021 or January 2022
- Apply by:
- 26 May 2021
Job overview
Senior School Housemistress
Full Time
Required from September 2021 or January 2022
Salary dependent on experience, commensurate with seniority and responsibility of the post
We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated Housemistress who can combine creativity with enthusiasm and experience to run the newly refurbished Year 13 Boarding House. This position offers an excellent opportunity to establish the relaunch of a dedicated Year 13 Transition House. The position enables you to support Year 13 boarders with their academic and pastoral well-being as well as their personal development ensuring they are fully prepared for their next steps in life. This is a key role which offers the opportunity to be fully involved in the life of the School.
Boarding is at the heart of the MSJ ethos. The successful candidate must be an excellent communicator, approachable and with a proven ability to interact with others in a sensitive and caring manner. She must have first-class leadership and organisational skills to help take forward the boarding vision of the School.
Due to the nature of the role within the boarding house, the successful candidate will be female.
Malvern St James is a leading boarding and day school for girls aged 4 to 18, which achieves outstanding results within an exceptionally creative, warm, and supportive community. We offer:
• the opportunity to work with highly motivated and talented pupils and colleagues
• commitment to professional development
• a convenient location in Malvern, with excellent transport links
• a competitive salary.
Closing date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 - 4.00pm
Interviews: We reserve the right to interview and appoint at any time up until the closing date.
(Remote interviews will be carried out if appropriate)
Application forms and further details may be obtained from our website www.malvernstjames.co.uk
Malvern St James is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Malvern St James
Malvern St James Girls’ School is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of the Malvern Hills and is a leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3-18. Our values today reflect those of our founding schools, set up in the nineteenth century by pioneering proponents of women’s education. In this inspirational setting, MSJ continues a fine heritage of academic rigour, outstanding enrichment and leadership opportunities, and preparing girls for rewarding careers and lives beyond school.
MSJ is an exceptional place for learning and living. Every girl matters to us, and our size (at around 450 pupils) means that we can offer an individually tailored education. Our focus is on inspiring teaching to deliver excellent academic results; and equally on encouraging intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, considered risk-taking and collaboration that universities and employers will value. Our enrichment programme is as long as it is broad, and has something to fire the imagination of every individual: clubs for budding engineers and scientists, extra-curricular languages, drama, music, Leiths, journalism, photography, sport of every kind, Young Enterprise, Debating and Model United Nations … to name but a few.
Life at MSJ is underpinned by first class pastoral support which makes us a happy and friendly community, relaxed yet purposeful, with a real sense of family. When girls reach the end of their time here, they are thoroughly prepared to embrace life’s challenges. The diverse list of graduate courses at the most prestigious institutions and the competitive career paths that girls go on to is testament to MSJ’s culture of ambition and achievement. Our alumnae network helps our community to forge valuable links for life.
As a school we have a roughly equal number of day girls and boarders, allowing us to offer the best of both worlds and a very flexible boarding programme. We have full, weekly and flexi boarding options, designed to meet the needs of modern family lives. Our position in the town of Great Malvern, situated in the heart of England, means we benefit from excellent transport links and cultural opportunities all around the UK, including a direct train service from London.
Our girls work hard but have fun on the way, making lifelong friends and memories. Please do come and see for yourselves what makes MSJ tick and meet our happy, poised and confident girls and young women, who are free to be themselves and find the things which will instigate a life-long passion for learning.
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