Deputy Head (Pastoral)
Monkton Senior School
Bath and North East Somerset
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2018
- Apply by:
- 1 June 2017
Job overview
Do you believe personal development is the keystone of outstanding education? An opportunity has arisen to further define, shape and lead the delivery of Monkton's innovative pastoral approach which sits at the heart of all we do and has led the sector in the last five years. We believe that only through a real understanding of ourselves born from a growth mindset culture of self-knowledge and review do we find success (staff or pupils).
We are seeking someone with significant senior leadership experience in a 13 to 18 boarding context and a profile of driving creative change in the field of pastoral care and wellbeing to serve as Deputy Head.
For further information about the school, please visit www.monktoncombeschool.com
Completed application forms, letters of application and enquiries should be directed to the PA to the Principal no later than midday on Friday 2nd June at 12 noon.
Contact: PA to Principal
Email: PA2Principal@monkton.org.uk
Telephone: 01225 721111
Closing date: Friday 2nd June at 12 noon
Interviews: Week commencing 5th June 2017
Monkton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Monkton Senior School
Our vision: Monkton inspires young people to become confident, kind and ambitious adults who live fulfilling lives.
Our mission: Monkton thinks differently. We start with a proactive pastoral environment to develop academically strong enthusiastic learners within a living Christian ethos.
Our values: Confidence, Humility, Integrity, Service
If you share this vision for a different way of doing schooling, then applying for a role at Monkton could be a professionally life-changing decision. We take our staff development seriously - in fact as seriously as we take our students’ development; both constituencies share the same aims:
‘A community empowered by its growth mindset, consistently evaluating and re-evaluating progress, acknowledging failure, celebrating success, setting new targets and constantly improving’
A coaching culture sits at the heart of our professional development strategy to enable our colleagues to reflect and explore their next steps. Our partnership with the Expansive Education Network run by Prof Bill Lucas at Winchester University means there is even the scope to engage in supported action research.
Boarding is part of the ethos of Monkton rather than a description of where some of its students stay the night. Many of the day students, who make up about 40% of the student body, often stay till 8.30 or later in the evening. ‘After school’ has more to do with university than tea time.
As such, teachers who thrive at Monkton understand and engage with this ethos as part of the vocation of choosing to teach here. Learning, for a Monkton teacher, happens as much in the classroom as outside it.
We aim to develop positive attitudes to learning which build on self-regulation and the notion of neuroplasticity. Students are engaged in growing their self-awareness and setting their own targets helped with a 1-1 tutoring programme which emphasises the tutor as coach rather than mentor.
Our pastoral care is market leading: in partnership with Mind.world we pioneered their groundbreaking pastoral tracking system which helps us track and improve our students’ emotional development. This is now used in leading schools around the UK and the world; Monkton is central as a key training hub.
Monkton is set in the beautiful Midford valley, just 3 miles outside Bath. The campus is an inspirational place to live and work, with Georgian Bath stone buildings blended with innovative modern design capturing a school with a clear heritage but 21st century aspirations.
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