Fryer House Manager

 HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.

Fryer House Manager

From November 2022

Leighton Park is looking to appoint a House Manager with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work alongside our Fryer boarding House Team. This is a non-residential role and is pivotal to the success of the boarding experience at Leighton Park.

The Fryer House Manager will form part of a close team; supporting the Head and Assistant Head of Fryer in sharing knowledge, challenging themselves to continually improve and, whilst adopting the School’s Quaker ethos and educational aims, they strive for excellence, not only in themselves but also in the students in their care.

As a House Manager, your warm and empathetic personality, tactful manner and good listening skills will be essential to build harmonious relationships with all students, staff and parents. Your excellent communication skills and ‘can do’ attitude will take our House provision beyond outstanding. Discretion and confidentiality are paramount with this role as is a genuine understanding of the needs of teenagers. The role is multi-faceted alongside the above will require you to demonstrate excellent levels of planning and organisational skills to manage the daily operations of Fryer House. A willingness to participate in all aspects of boarding life is essential.

The House Manager will need to be computer literate and hold an up to date first aid qualification. Training will be given in child protection, safeguarding, dispensing medicines and on our, boarding software, REACH.

Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere that creates achievement with values, character and community. Founded on Quaker principles, we seek to inspire each student to fulfil their academic and personal potential and be reflective, purposeful adults. We appoint candidates who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.

The school offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.

To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.

Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.

Applicants are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.