Gap Assistants
Brighton College Prep School
Brighton and Hove
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 26 April 2024
Job overview
Brighton College Prep School is seeking two Gap Assistants to start in August 2024. This is a fixed-term role for one year, with the possibility of extension for the right candidate.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To assist in the games department, music department, or Pre-Prep, depending on the specific post, preparing equipment for lessons, supporting during lessons and on fixtures or in concerts and productions.
- To help with clubs and activities at lunchtimes and after school.
- To help with regular duties, supervising in the playgrounds and dining hall.
- To help manage the lost property system in school.
- To be responsible for tidying specific areas of the school.
- To assist staff with displays.
- Any other reasonable management request to support the day-to-day running of the school.
HOURS OF WORK:
- The post-holder will work 42 hours per week: 3 days from 7.45am-4.15pm/2 days from 7.45am-5.15pm with a 30-minute unpaid lunchbreak, Monday to Friday inclusive.
- Some flexibility with start and finish times will be required.
- This role will work during term-time only (35 weeks per year).
HOLIDAYS:
- Annual leave entitlement is included in the salary for this role.
- Holidays should be taken outside of the working weeks.
Benefits:
- Complimentary lunch is provided.
- Free tickets to the College’s music, dance and drama performances.
- Job specific Learning and Development programme available to all employees.
- Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
- Brighton College provides a contributory pension scheme with matching contributions from the employer up to 9%, which all eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into within three months of commencement of employment.
- Perkbox: Employee benefit and rewards platform which provides access to a wide range of discounts, employee benefits and wellbeing resources.
Wellbeing:
- Significantly subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and Pilates classes and use of the gym and swimming pool.
- Healthy heart checks.
- Meditation sessions.
- Generous sickness policy.
- Access to books, magazines and DVDs from the College Library.
- This role will involve daily contact with pupils, and you will be engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
- All staff and volunteers have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
Attached documents
About Brighton College Prep School
- Brighton College Prep School
- Walpole Lodge, Walpole Road, Brighton
- East Sussex
- BN2 0EU
- United Kingdom
Brighton College Prep School is a co-educational school for children aged 3-13. It is the main feeder school to Brighton College, one of England’s leading schools. The College educates 1,000 pupils aged 13-18 alongside a Lower School, educating 100 pupils aged 11-13. The Prep School educates 500 pupils aged 3-13.
Brighton College Prep School provides an inspiring education that aims to prepare pupils for life in our College and beyond. We are proud to be part of a school which is one of the most innovative and forward thinking in the country.
The Prep School helps all children to believe in themselves and to excel in their own individual way. The teaching philosophy allows pupils to be individual whilst enabling them to develop and progress at a rate above and beyond their own expectations. Within each year group teachers aim to give children the best possible start to life, both in their academic grounding and in developing their values and beliefs. The school motto is well known by pupils who pride themselves on trying to:
Be Kind.
Be Curious.
Be Confident.
Be the best you.
The school is based on two sites within the vibrant city of Brighton; our Pre-Prep educates children from Nursery to Year 3, after which they progress on to the Prep site for Years 4 to 8. Pupils benefit from use of facilities at the College, including the Chapel, the Sarah Abraham Recital Hall, the dining facilities and the new School of Science and Sport. Our sports fixtures are played at the Jubilee ground pitches located nearby in the South Downs.
Brighton College Prep School is progressive and pupil orientated. Each individual is recognized for their own achievements, resulting in a happy, caring environment. The staff body is also a positive and vibrant one; equality, diversity and respect are championed and celebrated by all.
The Brighton College family of schools also includes St Christopher’s, Handcross Park and Brighton College Prep Kensington. Overseas, the College has opened Brighton College Abu Dhabi, Brighton College Dubai and Brighton College Al Ain in the UAE, Brighton College Bangkok in Thailand, Brighton College Singapore and Brighton College Hanoi in Vietnam (opened in September 2023).
THE CITY
The College enjoys its location in Brighton, one of Britain’s youngest cities and one of the most vibrant in Europe.
In 2017, a national survey identified Brighton as the “happiest” city in the UK. It is close to the beautiful South Downs, within easy travelling distance of London (about 50 minutes by train), and about 30 minutes from Gatwick Airport. Portsmouth, Newhaven and the Channel Tunnel provide accessible links with the Continent.
Brighton is also a university city, and the College has good links with both the University of Sussex and Brighton University.
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