Boarding Housemaster/mistress
Bedford School
Bedford
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 16 February 2018
Job overview
An exceptional candidate is sought for the post of Boarding Housemaster/mistress for September 2018 to lead Redburn House.
The successful candidate will have outstanding inter-personal skills, previous experience in boarding, and a real ambition to inspire boys to happiness and success in all its forms. He/she will be an energetic and inspirational leader, and be fully supportive of the all-round ethos and strategic vision of the school. All subject backgrounds will be considered.
The School has its own salary scale (well above national scales); the post will be rewarded generously in accordance with the importance of the position and will include accommodation. There is substantial fee remission for children of teaching staff in all the Harpur Trust Schools in Bedford.
Closing date: Friday 16th February 2018 (Noon)
Interview date:Thursday 22nd February 2018
Further details and an application form can be found on our website:
https://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/about-us/career-opportunities/
Please send completed applications to: vacancies@bedfordschool.org.uk or post to Amy Bell, HR Assistant, The Bursary, 10 Glebe Road, Bedford MK40 2PL.
The Harpur Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other checks.
Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust
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About Bedford School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply ‘be’ together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.
Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages – there is no ‘typical’ Bedford student.
Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.
Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.
Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.
Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of ‘sport for all’ and we regularly field E and F teams.
We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.
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