Day Houseparent Responsibility
Bedales School
Petersfield, Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2020
- Apply by:
- 10 February 2020
Job overview
A key pastoral role has emerged in our Day House at Bedales, a unique educational establishment set in the beautiful Hampshire countryside. The role will promote the development of students and have an impact on the strategic direction of pastoral care in one of the country’s most dynamic and innovative institutions. This is a non-residential post held in addition to a full-time teaching post.
Please also see our advert for a boarding Senior Houseparent and Houseparent. Both of these roles are residential posts with outstanding accommodation.
Day Houseparent
Supporting the Day Senior Houseparent in managing the operations of the Day House, acting as part of the Senior House Team and taking responsibility for the House in their absence.
Our aim is to create an environment where questioning, divergent thinking and freedom to learn from mistakes are all encouraged. Central to our success is the sense that each person is a member of our community whose voice is entitled to be heard and treated with respect. Both our staff and students expect of each other the best kind of relationships – co-operative, authentic and trustful.
To succeed in this position, you will have outstanding interpersonal skills and a real ambition to inspire students to happiness and success in all its forms. You will be an energetic and inspirational leader and be fully supportive of the all-round ethos and strategic vision of the school.
All subject specialisms will be considered, but applications from teachers of Chemistry, English, Mathematics, and Religious Studies are particularly welcome.
Benefits
Our benefits include onsite parking, free school meals during term time, life assurance, pension and personal accident cover.
For further information and to apply, please visit: http://www.bedales.org.uk/home/about-bedales/bedales-schools-jobs
Closing date: 9.00am, Monday 10 February 2020
Interview date: Thursday 27 February 2020
Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All teaching posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful applicants will undergo safeguarding screening including an enhanced DBS and Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Prohibition from Teaching Check and where required a Prohibition from Management Check (Section. 128 Check).
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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