Deputy Head Pastoral
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Bury Grammar School
Bury, Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- The starting salary will be dependent on experience and will be commensurate with such a role in a large Independent day school.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2018
- Apply by:
- 5 February 2018
Job overview
Deputy Head Pastoral
We seek a talented and energetic colleague, with a deep-seated commitment to pastoral care, to become our Deputy Head Pastoral. The post holder will play a key role in the Boys’ School but will also be someone who is committed to supporting and working within the whole Bury Grammar School family; he/she will be a member of both the whole School Leadership Team and the Boys’ SLT.
The post, commencing in September 2018 is an outstanding opportunity to join a thriving school, which has a strong focus on pastoral development and wellbeing, both as part of the development of the boys’ character and as a key driver for academic success.
The main focus of the role initially will be providing support, appropriate challenge, and leadership for the Pastoral team. The successful candidate will have a strong academic background, a passion for all aspects of the pastoral life of the school, and the ability to engage and inspire, in order to effectively lead the Heads of Section/Year.
S/he will be an enthusiastic and committed teacher in any area of the curriculum with the skills to challenge and inspire our able and highly motivated pupils in both our girls and boys school from Year 7 to Sixth Form inside and outside the classroom.
S/he will be a graduate with at least a good honours degree who has flair and good sense, together with the necessary academic, educational and organisational experience to succeed in a post of this standing. S/he will have the talent and energy to contribute fully and creatively to strategic thinking and planning of the pastoral life of the school. S/he will display a full commitment to school improvement and to the wider life of the School and will have demonstrated the ability to lead and oversee change, to initiate and develop ideas and to deal effectively with the administrative detail of the job.
For the right candidate the opportunity to be the Senior Deputy Head may be made available.
More information on our pastoral provision can be seen on our website: https://burygrammarschool.fluencycms.co.uk/pastoral-care
The job description and person specification for the role can be seen in the Job Application Pack.
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About Bury Grammar School
Bury Grammar School is situated in the heart of Bury, Lancashire and is widely recognised as one of the top independent schools in the North West of England. Currently there are over 1270 girls and boys on roll.
Our School is a family of independent, selective, day schools for girls and boys aged 3 to 18, which combine a strong tradition of academic excellence with the best in modern educational practice. The School has a long and rich history of excellence extending back 450 years and our staff, pupils and alumni are proud of the School’s long-standing traditions. Our modern, inclusive School community welcomes students and staff from different faiths and cultures. It is the blend of the School’s traditions along with our modern ethos that is a source of great enrichment for the whole community and is what makes the School so special.
Every one of our pupils benefits enormously from belonging both to a small school, where they are known and nurtured as an individual, while at the same time being part of our BGS family of Schools which is able to offer a huge variety of educational experiences and an excellent learning environment. Through our unique blend of single-sex education from ages 7-16 and co-education in our Pre-School, Infant School and Sixth Form, we offer the ‘best of both worlds’ for our pupils at every stage of their educational journey. Our vibrant and rigorous curriculum is designed to engage and challenge our pupils whilst fostering an intellectual curiosity, which translates into impressive academic performance.
The School is led by our Principal, Jo Anderson, who is supported by a strong and dynamic senior management team and dedicated Board of Governors. We are a member of the Girls’ School Association (GSA) and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and have been rated ‘excellent’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.
One of our key strategic objectives is to maintain, recruit, nurture and develop first class teaching and support staff. You can be sure that as an employer we are focused on creating an outstanding workplace for all our staff so that we can attract, retain and engage talented individuals who have a desire to transform the lives of others.
A successful education is very much about team work and every member of staff at Bury Grammar School recognises that together we have the opportunity to change our pupils’ lives. Whether this is part of our fantastic catering team who provide our pupils with nutritious meals, our dedicated estates team who maintain our beautiful grounds or as a member of our inspiring teaching staff, everyone has an important part to play.
Join BGS and make a difference.
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