Assistant Head
Hereford Cathedral School
Hereford
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018/January 2019
- Apply by:
- 29 March 2018
Job overview
Hereford Cathedral School seeks to appoint an Assistant Head who will offer insight, wisdom and vision to the development of the school’s already excellent provision of extra-curricular activities, particularly sport. Our major sports include football, hockey, netball, rowing and rugby, but there is a wide selection of sports for pupils of all abilities and interests.
The Assistant Head is expected to have gained valuable experience managing staff within a Sports Department and this post would suit a candidate seeking to become a Head. Ideally the candidate will have experience of working with pupils in senior and junior schools and will be expected to contribute directly to school sport and the extra-curricular life of the school.
September 2018/January 2019
Location: Hereford
Description: Full time and permanent
Our ideal candidate will be capable of maintaining a clear, strategic approach towards sport which will support and enhance the wide variety of extra-curricular opportunities on offer. As a member of the Whole School Senior Leadership Team they will advise and support the Headmaster with the school’s ambitious programme for the development of sport across the whole school (from 3-18). This key leadership role will require an excellent knowledge and understanding of the provision of sport within a coeducational framework together with:
• Strong organisational skills
• Flexibility and versatility in dealing with the wide variety of logistic and interpersonal challenges that inevitably arise when dealing with whole school management issues
• An ambitious ‘can do’ approach which seeks not only to maintain, but also to improve, the quality of provision and the standard of achievement in all extra-curricular activities, but particularly sport.
• A love of sport and appreciation of the value it plays in enriching the lives of all pupils especially with regard to physical and emotional health, teamwork and leadership
• A willingness to ensure that all pupils across the ability range are provided with opportunities to be stretched and challenged
• An appreciation of the value of all extra-curricular activities, and of the need to ensure a wide range of opportunities are available
• An excellent ability to communicate with pupils, parents (current and prospective), governors and the wider community
• An aptitude for creative thinking which will help develop opportunities for outreach, marketing and school development
• An ability to oversee and manage budgets, to monitor and forecast expenditure
Application forms can be downloaded from our website www.herefordcs.com and sent with a covering letter to Mrs Cath Knowles , HR Office, Hereford Cathedral School, Old Deanery, The Cathedral Close, Hereford HR1 2NG or email to c.knowles@herefordcs.com
The closing date for applications is 30th March 2018. Interviews will take place at the start of next term.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to enhanced DBS clearance and satisfactory employment references and other safer recruitment checks.
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About Hereford Cathedral School
- Hereford Cathedral School
- Old Deanery, Cathedral Close, Hereford
- Herefordshire
- HR1 2NG
- United Kingdom
Hereford Cathedral School (HCS) is one of the oldest schools in the country and is located in the beautiful surroundings of Hereford Cathedral Close.
A happy, inclusive school with a national reputation for music, sport, and academic achievement, HCS is a co-educational day and boarding school for 745 pupils aged 3-18. In a caring and nurturing environment, every member of the community is both challenged and fulfilled. Pupils at HCS are offered an excellent standard of teaching and individual care and leave the School as well-balanced, confident and considerate young adults ready for the wider world.
It is probable that the School was established at Hereford Cathedral in the 12th century, possibly as early as the 1130s, but little is known over the following centuries. Having been rebuilt in the reign of Edward VI (1547-53), it received considerable emoluments from Queen Elizabeth I in 1583. Its greatest benefactors came in the 17th century when Dean Langford, Roger Philpotts, a former Mayor of Hereford, and Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Somerset, gave sizeable bequests to the School for the foundation of scholarships. When Charles I granted new statutes to the Cathedral in 1637, the School’s endowment was also increased by the grant of a house and garden for the Headmaster. By 1762 a new schoolroom 80 feet long and 40 feet broad, with windows overlooking the palace yard, had been completed to the south-west of the Cathedral on the site of the old building.
The period from the late 19th to the early 21st century has seen a remarkable growth in pupil numbers – from under 100 boys to more than 745 boys and girls (from 3 to 18 years) and a corresponding increase in staff; an expansion in the number of sites from the one in School Yard to seven around the Close and in Castle Street; the adoption of co-education in 1970; the integration of the Cathedral Preparatory School (now Hereford Cathedral Junior School, founded in 1898 and moved to its present site in 1925); and the development of purpose-built facilities (including most recently a new sports hall) and the School’s playing fields at Wyeside.
HCS proudly reintroduced boarding in April 2019 following months of renovations on a former country house hotel. Wilmot House currently offers 29 students the benefits of an outstanding education and the friendly culture of a traditional British school.
Looking to the future, there are plans in place to expand the School’s boarding provision as well as discussions at an advanced stage to launch the first Hereford Cathedral School overseas.
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