Graduate Resident Assistant
The Stephen Perse Foundation
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- The Stephen Perse Foundation has its own competitive salary scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 3 June 2020
Job overview
We are the Stephen Perse Foundation. Extraordinary things happen here every day.
So you think you may be interested in joining the Stephen Perse Foundation (SPF) community of schools?
Located in Cambridge, Madingley and Saffron Walden, our schools strive to offer an education which is more than just the delivery of the curriculum and qualifications; learning in a Stephen Perse school is about learning for and about life in readiness for the world beyond.
As Principal of the Foundation, I look to recruit colleagues who are passionate about learning; share in our commitment to educating ethical young people; and understand the critical importance of supporting the emotional and mental wellbeing of all our learners. If you would like a flavour of what this means in practice, please read my most recent blog .
Ms T Kelleher
Principal
Location: SPF Boarding, Cambridge City sites
Role Description:
As part of the Professional Support Services team at the Foundation, you are an integral part of providing the best experience possible for our students. This role will provide the opportunity to develop first-hand and practical experience of working in a school and to determine whether teaching might be the right career for you. You will benefit from direct involvement with very experienced and senior staff, and will gain invaluable experience.
You will contribute to the academic life of the college, providing support to students in and out of class and possibly teaching some lessons, as appropriate to your skills and to the college’s needs, all with the support and guidance of experienced staff.
You will support wider aspects of boarding and will be expected to be resident overnight throughout term time, playing a full and supportive role both in activities and in formal duties. You will be responsible for the preparation and delivery of activities, trips and events within and outside the College, during term time and some holiday periods, ensuring the wide engagement of students.
Hours of work:
Your normal working hours are 40 hours per week and will be flexible. They will include work within the college timetable hours, Monday to Friday, as well as evenings and weekends to suit the activities/boarding programme.
You will work during college terms, which includes any early start to the Autumn Term and the three working days prior to the return and after the departure of students, and for up to four weeks during the college holidays, but will have the remainder of the college holidays free.
Application process
Please apply directly through our online recruitment portal by clicking the Apply button below.
We are unable to accept CVs as a method of application.
The Stephen Perse Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.
History of the Stephen Perse Foundation
Formerly the Perse Girls School, founded in 1881, the Foundation developed to become the Stephen Perse Foundation in 2007, and first admitted boys into the Senior School in 2017. The Foundation has grown over recent years, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s in Saffron Walden) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.
Predominantly a day school, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing students for the future.
Stephen Perse Foundation Schools
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Salisbury Villas
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Cambridge, Shaftesbury Road
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Madingley
- Stephen Perse Nurseries & Early Years - Saffron Walden, Dame Bradbury's
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Fitzwilliam Building, Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Junior School - Dame Bradbury's, Saffron Walden
- Stephen Perse Senior School - Cambridge
- Stephen Perse Sixth Form - Cambridge
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission Statement
At the Stephen Perse Foundation, our mission is to educate and inspire the contributors to tomorrow’s world: intelligent young people with the creativity, compassion, confidence and conviction to question, evaluate and improve society.
Our Vision Statement
To deliver this mission, our vision is to create and sustain an outstanding educational environment that:
- Fosters modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum
- Provides outstanding breadth of opportunity and quality of experience through a rich and varied co-curriculum
- Nurtures and celebrates individuality, wellbeing, personal development, and contribution to the growth of others, through superb pastoral care, social and emotional education, and learning support
- Champions and models equality, diversity and inclusivity, and social and environmental responsibility with a global outlook
Our Values Statement
With excellence and creativity in teaching and learning at the core of each of our schools and nurseries, we value the positive difference our students can make in the world through:
- Scholarship and the advancement of knowledge and understanding
- Kindness, courtesy, inclusivity and collaboration
- Diligence, independence and self-reliance
- Humility, reflectiveness and the pursuit of self-improvement
- Character, individuality, wellbeing and confidence
- Conserving the environment and living sustainably
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