Deputy Head (Academic)
Bedales School
Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary package, including accommodation and fee remission is offered
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 January 2021
- Apply by:
- 6 November 2020
Job overview
Bedales is looking to appoint its next Deputy Head (Academic). The successful applicant will be responsible for driving the school’s progressive pedagogy, supporting and developing its teachers as skilled and accomplished classroom practitioners, and ensuring the best academic outcomes for its students.
You will manage directly the Assistant Head (Student Progress) and the Assistant Head (Learning and Development), and under your aegis will be the Faculty Heads and Heads of Department. As an experienced, well-qualified teacher of your subject from Key Stage 3 to Oxbridge, you will model academic excellence and communicate it enthusiastically to students to develop their life-long love of learning.
Our school is a unique educational establishment, set in beautiful Hampshire countryside. 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 excellent management skills and be ready to embrace change with positivity and a ‘can-do’ approach. You will be a committed educationalist who reads widely in the field and who can intelligently challenge orthodoxies of curriculum delivery and assessment. You should also be keen to play a full and inclusive role in the life of our busy boarding community, and be able to contribute to the development of our innovative school through an enthusiastic embrace of new ways of teaching, learning, and working.
Start date of 1 January 2021 is preferable but negotiable. A competitive salary package, including accommodation and fee remission is offered.
For further information and to apply, please visit: https://www.bedales.org.uk/our-school/about-bedales/job-vacancies
CVs cannot be accepted in lieu of an application form.
Closing date: 9:00am, Friday 6 November 2020.
Long list interview date: w/c 9 November 2020 via Teams.
Short list interview date: w/c 23 November 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.
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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