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Head of Outdoor Learning

Head of Outdoor Learning

Bohunt Education Trust

Flexible

Job type:
Part Time, Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
8 May 2018

Job overview

Bohunt Education Trust (BET) is seeking to appoint a leader of Outdoor Education. We are making this appointment as we further develop our outdoor offer across our schools.

BET is committed to creating 'game-changers' and the outdoor programme forms a key part of that due to its ability to build confidence, self-esteem, resilience, teamwork, communication and a variety of other skills and attitudes. The outdoor programme currently encompasses:

  • Year 8 Activity Camp
  • Year 9 Bushcraft Camp
  • Bronze Duke of Edinburgh in Year 10
  • Silver Duke of Edinburgh in Year 11
  • Gold Duke of Edinburgh in the Sixth Form 
  • Major expeditions to places such as Greenland and Azerbaijan 
  • Various clubs and one-off trips


The person appointed will be responsible for:

  • Developing the impact and breadth of Outdoor Education (OE)
  • Grant applications and sponsorship-seeking
  • Increasing the profile and importance of OE both in schools but also to a wider, national audience
  • Recruitment and Training of volunteers
  • Policy development
  • Developing climbing at Bohunt Wokingham, which has an impressive climbing wall and NICAS Club
  • Instructing/Leading certain activities, particularly climbing
  • Health and Safety on Trips and Visits


Person Specification:

Essential:

  • Single Pitch Award Qualification 
  • Self-motivated, have a high level of organisational skills, enthusiastic, committed and safety conscious
  • Flexibility in working hours


Desirable:

  • Able to drive a minibus 
  • Other outdoor qualifications (e.g. MIAS Mountain Bike Leader Award, Mountain Leader, International Mountain Leader Qualification)
  • 16 hour outdoor first aid certificate


The salary is negotiable and will be dependent on experience and qualifications. The post is a permanent one and is pensionable.  Part time hours would only be considered for a truly exceptional candidate. 

Closing date is Wednesday 9 May, 2018


Bohunt Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.

For further details about Bohunt Education Trust please visit our website http://www.bohunttrust.co.uk/ or email recruitment@bohunt.hants.sch.uk

About Bohunt Education Trust

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Bohunt Education Trust (BET) is a leading multi-academy trust (MAT) defined by its successful, innovative and aspirational approach to education. BET has a game-changing approach, and is viewed as a high-performing, innovative and independent-minded academy trust, with the highest expectations of its students and staff, and itself.

BET currently comprises nine schools – in Steyning (including Sixth Form), Worthing, Liphook (including Sixth Form), Portsmouth, Petersfield, Basingstoke and Wokingham, Horsham and Farnborough. Trust Head Office is based in Liphook. We have ambitions to grow and are passionately committed to inspiring children and young people. Central to BET’s ethos of ‘enjoy, respect, achieve’ is introducing innovation that works.

BET believes that all young people deserve to become world-class learners – to enjoy, respect and achieve in a first rate educational environment with the best facilities, the best teaching and the most up-to-date resources available to them.  In each BET academy, our staff take pride in knowing that they work at excellent schools within an ambitious trust and they benefit from visionary, inspirational and dynamic leadership and are empowered to develop their own skills with access to world-class CPD and Talent Management programmes.

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