Resident Graduate Assistant
The Purcell School
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- in the region of £12,500
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 31/08/2023
- Apply by:
- 7 July 2023
Job overview
The Purcell School
Aldenham Road
Bushey
Hertfordshire
WD23 2TS
01923 331100
Resident Graduate Assistant
Salary range: in the region of £12,500
Start date: September 2023
To apply please submit an application form and supporting statement, available from our website: https://www.purcell-school.org/about-us/staff-vacancies/.
Contract: Full-time position, fixed term, two year contract. The post-holder is required to live on-site. Single accommodation in a boarding house is provided free of rent, council tax and all utilities. Meals are available and are free of charge in the School dining room during the contract period.
Excellent opportunity for a recent graduate to gain valuable experience supporting some of the country’s most gifted young musicians at this outstanding day and boarding specialist music school for students aged 11 – 18. We aim to provide outstanding pastoral care for all our students. Each of our boarding houses is supervised by at least two resident staff (Houseparents), with other staff involved in a non-residential capacity.
Our Resident Graduate Assistants are required to live on-site and support our pastoral team with the day-to-day care of our students, providing overnight cover and responding positively to the needs and interests of all of our students. The post-holder will play a significant part in ensuring that our young musicians are safe, happy and healthy and will be able to lead and facilitate a range of recreational activities for boarders.
This is the perfect first job for a graduate considering a career in teaching, pastoral care or working with young people in any other context. Extensive training will be given in all aspects of safeguarding, as well as around boarding and mental health first aid.
We welcome applicants from any background (especially music and performance related disciplines) and will facilitate opportunities to gain experience working in a relevant curriculum area, if this is desired. For example, recent music RGAs have joined ensembles and choirs, assisted music teachers and have even led major performances and projects in their spare time; sports graduates have made a led a full and varied range of recreational sports activities.
To apply please visit https://www.purcell-school.org/about-us/staff-vacancies/ or email recruitment@purcell-school.org
The Purcell School is an independent co-educational day and boarding school for young musicians aged 10 to 18, and Britain’s oldest music school. Based on the outskirts of London, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, the School provides a rounded education with music at its heart to approximately 180 talented young players, singers and composers. The mission of The Purcell School is to provide young musicians who demonstrate the potential to become exceptional, irrespective of background, with outstanding teaching within a supportive school environment and to equip them with the self-confidence, adaptability, maturity and perspective to sustain their professional development and personal fulfilment throughout their lives. In our latest ISI inspection report in May 2022, the school achieved the highest possible grading in all categories - both the quality of students’ academic and other achievements and their personal development was judged to be excellent (the highest ISI grading). The excellent personal development of our students, as noted in the inspection report, is ‘due to the strong commitment of senior leaders, school governors and staff providing high levels of support’…’supported by the leadership having created a culture of openness, integration and acceptance’. Celebrated throughout the world as a centre of musical excellence, The Purcell School is a unique, vibrant, innovative and exhilarating place to work or study. We are a close-knit community dedicated to nurturing some of the world’s most talented young musicians and we recognize the unique privilege it is to work with these incredibly gifted students. As a boarding school, a specialist music organisation and a charity we have a diverse team of staff working across many dedicated areas, such as, Music, Academics, Pastoral, Fundraising, Maintenance and Housekeeping. The Purcell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Purcell School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, religion, disability or age.
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About The Purcell School
The Purcell School is a world-famous boarding and day school in Bushey near Watford, which aims to provide a rounded education with music at its heart.
The school was founded in 1962, and is Britain’s oldest specialist music school. There are currently over 180 pupils aged from 10-18 years, of whom about 30% come from abroad. Over 75% of pupils are boarders. The sixth form currently comprises around 90 pupils with approximately 25-30 pupils joining the school each year specifically for the Sixth Form. The majority of pupils progress to music conservatoires, many of them on scholarships, while a small number each year elect to go to university, often to Oxbridge or Russell Group institutions.
The school has an enviable reputation for the quality of its musical education and performance. Students enjoy individual tuition on one or two instruments, or in composition, from some of the very best teachers available. They take part in over 200 orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, and have opportunities to perform regularly at venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Albans Abbey.
In addition to their musical studies, students study for GCSE and A Level. The range of subjects on offer includes all three sciences, art, drama, English literature, modern languages, history and music technology. All pupils take GCSE and A-level Music.
Our students are the liveliest, most committed and self-motivated young people you could hope to meet. Every day, the School’s corridors echo with the sound of extraordinary music as our students prepare for concerts both here at School and in the most prestigious venues in London.
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