Resident Graduate Boarding Assistant - September 2024
St Teresa's Effingham
Dorking
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2024
Job overview
Are you a recent graduate looking for an exciting opportunity to work within a highly successful and friendly school. St. Teresa’s is seeking to appoint a Resident Graduate Boarding Assistant to join our Boarding Team from September 2024.
This role can serve as an excellent springboard into teaching or other child-centred careers. Accommodation and meals are provided.
Resident Graduate Boarding Assistants primarily work in boarding, assisting in the supervision of boarders. They contribute to the school’s co-curricular programme and assist with administrative duties, organise trips and events and liaise with parents. Duties include a variety of daytime, evening and weekend work, including in-class support for pupils, if appropriate. Those with Music, Drama or Sports experience would be given specific duties within those academic departments.
The role will require the successful candidate to live on site and to contribute fully to boarding school life.
To apply: Please complete an application form and submit with a covering letter addressed to Dr Claire McShane (Headmistress) to Mrs Karen Babler, Recruitment Manager, 01372 452037 (k.babler@st-teresas.com)
The closing date for this post is Monday 20th May 2024
As part of St. Teresa’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, any offer of employment to this post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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About St Teresa's Effingham
- St Teresa's Effingham
- Beech Avenue, Effingham Hill, Dorking
- Surrey
- RH5 6ST
- United Kingdom
St Teresa's Effingham is an independent Roman Catholic day and boarding school in an area of outstanding natural beauty between Dorking and Effingham in Surrey.
St Teresa’s has a school population of 680 including over 80 boarders, and a healthy Sixth Form. The school has its own Preparatory School it is situated on-site with the Senior School under the leadership of its own Head. There are approximately 160 pupils on role with two form entry from Year 3 through to Year 6.
The school sits in 55 acres of beautiful countryside and the school benefits from excellent facilities.
The School is centred around the original eighteenth century manor house and has evolved over the years and now proudly boasts some outstanding facilities.
A number of new facilities have been provided to meet the needs of a modern education. These include a brand new Sixth Form Centre, Equestrian Centre, Tennis Academy, a Performing Arts Centre comprising a large theatre, drama studios, music classrooms, practice rooms and recording suite. In addition, St Teresa’s boasts a swimming pool and an all-weather pitch.
St Teresa’s offers a strong, caring community based on its Catholic traditions, but remains an inclusive environment that welcomes pupils from all backgrounds. With recognised strengths spanning academia, sport and the creative and performing arts, we focus on the individual, allowing the girls to achieve their best and enabling them to follow their own unique path to happiness and success.
Headmistress
Dr. Claire McShane
Prep Headteacher
Mrs S Conrad
Values and vision
St Teresa's Effingham places a strong emphasis on encouraging confidence and recognising pupils' achievement, while fostering modesty, kindness, good humour and a sense of humility. The school ethos is built on its Catholic traditions, but pupils from all backgrounds are welcomed.
ISI report
“The pupils’ personal development is excellent. Pupils display maturity in their understanding of British values and a high level of spiritual awareness. They have a well-developed sense of right and wrong, and openly discuss moral and ethical issues. Pupils willingly take on responsibility to support others in the community and more widely in the world. They have a strong affection for the school. Arrangements for welfare, health and safety are excellent.”
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