Head of Design
Bedales School
Petersfield, Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Commensurate with experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 11 November 2016
Job overview
We wish to appoint an outstanding and well qualified Head of Design to lead our Design Department. The successful candidate must have exemplary personal designing and making skills and the enthusiasm and passion to communicate this to students. The department prides itself on the breadth of the work and the sophistication of output of our students. The successful candidate will need to have highly developed skills within an area of the curriculum but with an appreciation of a broader nature.
Candidates will need to demonstrate an iterative and innovation-led style, informed by an appreciation of design history and methodology beyond that conventionally seen within the secondary education sphere. In addition, the successful candidate must be conversant with the further education routes open to students in Design-related subjects and have the experience and understanding necessary to advise and prepare students for their applications.
The Head of Design oversees both the Design facility and academic curriculum. The successful candidate will have proven skills both in running a department facility and in leading teams.
School accommodation may be available; this can be discussed at interview.
How to apply for the position:
A job description and application form can be found via the recruitment portal at: www.bedales.org.uk/home/about-bedales/bedales-schools-jobs
Further assistant can be obtained via our Recruitment Team on 01730 711566 or by email: recruitment@bedales.org.uk.
CVs will not be accepted.
Closing date: 9am on Friday, 11th November 2016.
Interview dated: First stage interviews will be held on
Wednesday, 16th November 2016.
Second Stage interviews will be held on Friday, 25th November 2016.
Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All teaching posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful applicants will undergo safeguarding screening including an enhanced DBS and Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Prohibition from Teaching Check.
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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