Housemistress
Leighton Park School
Reading
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary is competitive and will depend on your skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2021
- Apply by:
- 25 January 2021
Job overview
HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.
Housemistress from September 2021
Leighton Park School is looking to appoint a qualified teacher with excellent interpersonal and pastoral skills to lead and develop one of our flagship boarding houses.
As a Housemistress, you will lead the house management team to efficiently manage the staffing, organisation and resources of the house. You will also lead on the provision of the safety, good discipline and pastoral well-being of all girls in the house in accordance with school policies and procedures and regulatory guidance. Housemistresses at Leighton Park uphold and promote the Quaker ethos and educational aims of the School.
It is expected that you will have a daily presence in the house even when not on formal duty and may be asked to be available prior to and at the ends of terms, at the Head’s discretion to facilitate the smooth running of the house.
This is a residential role and comes with excellent benefits, family accommodation within the house and a pensionable allowance.
A willingness to participate in all aspects of boarding life is essential. Whilst applications are welcomed from all interested candidates, please note that there is a genuine occupational requirement for the Housemistress to fulfil girls’ boarding and pastoral needs.
To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to rachelpither@leightonpark.com.
Closing date for applications: Midday, 25th January 2021
Interviews will be held shortly after
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore, the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
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About Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In March 2021 we won the ISA Award for Outstanding Local Community Outreach for the involvement of our students, staff and parents in projects helping those less fortunate and putting our Quaker values into practice.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
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