Boarding Housemaster / Housemistress
Tonbridge School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- The Tonbridge Salary scale is highly competitive (approximately £31,000 - £63,000) with new members of staff starting at a point on the scale appropriate to their qualifications and experience, and there is a significant additional financial allowance.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 28 January 2019
Job overview
Following the appointment of incumbent Housemasters to roles within a newly structured Senior Management team, Tonbridge School is seeking to appoint outstanding individuals (regardless of subject specialism) with significant pastoral experience as Boarding Housemasters/Housemistresses (HsMs). With the arrival of James Priory as Headmaster and the opening of the new Barton Science Centre, this is an exciting time in the life of Tonbridge, which celebrates its 475th anniversary in 2028.
The role of HsM at Tonbridge School is a senior position with considerable responsibility and, while demanding, it is fulfilling and rewarding, offering the opportunity to have a genuine impact on the lives of individual pupils and to shape and further develop our outstanding pastoral provision. As well as entry onto the appropriate point on our highly competitive salary scale and other benefits offered to teachers at Tonbridge, the successful candidate will receive a significant additional responsibility allowance, a reduced teaching timetable and will be provided with generous family accommodation. Active participation in the broad co-curricular and sporting programme is expected.
Strong candidates will have experience in and an instinctive understanding of the opportunities and benefits of a boarding education. Boarding Houses at Tonbridge each have about 65 boys from year 9 to year 13 and, as HsM, you will be responsible for each boy’s personal development, pastoral wellbeing, academic progress and engagement with the co-curricular programme and wider life of the School. You will foster a positive, inclusive and caring culture in the House, ensuring that each boy is given the opportunities, support and encouragement to develop self-confidence and to strive for academic, sporting and cultural excellence. You will provide strong and creative leadership, managing and liaising effectively with the Assistant HsM, the House Matrons, a team of six Tutors and with House catering and cleaning staff. As their main point of contact with the School, you will provide support for parents, ensuring appropriate and timely communication about their son’s progress and achievements.
The deadline for applications is midday on Monday 28 January, with interviews in the week commencing 4 February.
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About Tonbridge School
Tonbridge is one of the leading boys’ boarding and day schools in the UK and is highly respected, both here and internationally, for providing a world-class education. It occupies an extensive site of 150 acres in Kent – just a 40-minute train journey from London Charing Cross. There are some 800 boys in seven Boarding Houses and five Day Houses. One of the key strengths of Tonbridge is that it blends tradition and innovation successfully, with high achieving boys wearing their gifts lightly.
The School is renowned for its excellent teaching and for academic achievement. Each year exam results at GCSE and A-level are outstanding, with boys progressing to leading universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Russell Group institutions: the large majority securing their first-choice destination. Tonbridge leavers have also recently gained places (and scholarships) at top US institutions including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dartmouth, Northeastern and UC Berkeley and, worldwide, at universities in Austria, Australia, Canada, China and Hong Kong.
In the latest Sunday Times ‘Parent Power’ league table, published in December 2022, Tonbridge was the 8th highest ranking independent school in the country, and the top boys boarding school.
Pastoral care is based around an outstanding House system. Strong and positive relationships between boys, staff and parents are central to its success, and the School strives to ensure that each pupil, whether a boarder or a day boy, feels fully at home and well supported. Tonbridge was the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum for all Year 10 pupils. There is also a vibrant programme of Co-Curricular breadth and depth, with a wide range of societies covering everything from Beekeeping to Ultimate Frisbee. The School has a strong commitment to widening access and is striving towards doubling the number of boys who receive means-tested fee assistance to be 80 to 100 boys by 2028.
Tonbridge encourages its students to make connections – connections between academic subjects, between different sports and activities, between people, between cultures: with the aim of producing fine minds and good hearts. The School’s ethos is summed up in just two words: ‘Only Connect’.
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