Graduate Assistant of Outdoor Education
Ardingly College Senior
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- £14,825.89 per annum, inclusive of 4.2 weeks' holiday pay
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2020
- Apply by:
- 7 January 2020
Job overview
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a highly motivated recent graduate to join and support our ambitious and energetic Outdoor Education department from September 2020. This is a demanding role that requires the organisation and administration of Adventure Training within the School’s busy extra-curricular programme.
The successful applicant should have some basic qualifications in any of these disciplines: Climbing (SPA or CWA), Kayaking/Canoeing (Level 1 Coach), Sailing (DSI), and mountain walking (Mountain Leader Training), as well as experience of working with groups of young people. The College may be able to help with relevant Professional Development and thus further qualifications.
The role would suit somebody considering a career in Education, though this is a non-teaching role, which will be supporting and assisting the Head of Outdoor Education in the running and provision of a number of activities throughout the year. We are looking for someone who is passionate about adventure, who has a love of the outdoors and who wishes to share that passion with enthusiastic and energetic young people.
The role is offered initially on a fixed-term basis for one or two years, from September 2020. The hours of work are 40 hours per week, for 35 weeks per year (during term-time only, plus one additional week). The salary for the role will be £14,825.89 per annum, inclusive of 4.2 weeks' paid holiday. Accommodation may also be available for the successful candidate, if required.
For further information and to apply, please visit www.ardingly.com/vacancies
Closing date: Tuesday 7th January 2020, although applications may be considered upon receipt.
Interviews are expected to take place in the week commencing 13th January 2020.
Ardingly College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 2-18, a member of the HMC and a school of the Woodard Corporation.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are required to undertake child protection screening appropriate to the post including enhanced DBS checks.
About Ardingly College Senior
Ardingly College is a successful and modern co-educational school in a beautiful and traditional school setting in West Sussex.
The Prep School has over 200 pupils from Reception to Year 6, as well as a Nursery. Reception and KS1 are based in the Farmhouse and Years 3–6 in the main school building, School House. The Prep School lives and breathes the values of Shaping My World, through which primary-aged children learn to explore the world around them in ways that are adventurous, curious, generous, and ingenious.
The Senior School has over 800 students from 11 to 18, 300 of whom are boarders. The school puts the values of Collaboration, Compassion, Engagement and Resilience at the heart of its education and strives to help its students to become ready for the next stage of their lives beyond school in a programme known as World Ready. Students are drawn from the South-East and London as well as abroad, and a modest but growing endowment supports a bursary programme for talented students with limited financial means. In recent years, the College has educated half a dozen Ukrainian and Afghan refugee children free of charge.
The wellbeing and welfare of our students is paramount, with a strong emphasis on pastoral support provided through house staff, the Health & Wellbeing Centre, the Chaplain, the DSL and the Mental Health Lead. In the most recent ISI inspection of educational quality in 2018, the College was judged excellent for both student achievement and personal development, and in 2021, the College passed all elements of the Regulatory Compliance Inspection.
The curriculum is designed to be broad and stimulating, with over 25 subjects offered and a choice of A Level, IB Diploma or BTEC courses in the Sixth Form. Academic results are high and have been on an upward trajectory since 2015. Results in 2023 surpassed those achieved by the pre-pandemic 2019 cohort, with 90% of Sixth Form candidates achieving grades between A* and B at A Level, or 7–5 in the IB Diploma. At GCSE, two-thirds achieved between grades 9 and 7, with 48% scoring all 9s and 8s. All except a small handful of leavers progress to one of their top choices of university, with between five and eight each year to Oxbridge.
The College offers an outstanding range of co-curricular activities based on inclusive participation as well as excellence. In sports, students compete successfully at local, regional, and national levels in the main sports of football, hockey, swimming, netball, cricket, and athletics. Music, Art, Drama and Dance are equally thriving, with exciting programme of concerts, performances and exhibitions. In this, as in all ways, the school aims to live up to one of its mantras that nobody can excel in everything, but everyone can excel in something.
Local and global partnerships are integral to the College’s mission. Every week, hundreds of Ardingly pupils participate in an active voluntary service programme with the local community and primary schools, and the College sustains a STEM partnership with Ifield Community College, which was awarded the TES STEM project of the year in 2020. Internationally, the College opened its first overseas school in China in 2020 and is currently planning towards further schools in Kazakhstan and other geographies.
Campus facilities are excellent, with considerable recent investment in the College campus bringing it up to the highest school standards. Recent additions include a new STEM faculty and upgrades to classrooms, as well as major refurbishments of boarding and day houses. A new café and dance studio were opened in 2021 and new Lower School and a third day boys’ house in 2022.
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