Head of Boarding

CAPTION: Job details

• Posting date: 28 February 2025
• Hours: Full time
• Closing date: 24 March 2025
• Location: Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3RX
• Company: Teaching Vacancies
• Job type: Permanent
• Job reference: 9318eaa3-0c52-43fa-949b-612b9cc79473

Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Appropriate level of experience of working with 13-18 year olds in a residential setting.
• Flexible, generous with their time and responsive to the needs of the students in their care.
• Solution-focussed, resilient and optimistic.
• Empathetic and able to model courageous advocacy for young people.
• Outstanding pastoral carers with a proven track-record.
• Able to fully support the boarding provision of the school.
• A good communicator with outstanding people skills.
• Someone with a good sense of humour.

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidate will have the freedom and autonomy to lead the boarding community, whilst undertaking whole-school responsibility in an agreed strategic area. Proud to be part of the Bohunt Education Trust, SGS is a large, rural comprehensive school with over 2000 day school students.

Commitment to safeguarding

Bohunt Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Applications from two people to make a single FTE job share welcome. The successful candidate(s) will be subject to pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.

• Appropriate level of experience of working with 13-18 year olds in a residential setting.
• Flexible, generous with their time and responsive to the needs of the students in their care.
• Solution-focussed, resilient and optimistic.
• Empathetic and able to model courageous advocacy for young people.
• Outstanding pastoral carers with a proven track-record.
• Able to fully support the boarding provision of the school.
• A good communicator with outstanding people skills.
• Someone with a good sense of humour.
  
  The successful candidate will have the freedom and autonomy to lead the boarding community, whilst undertaking whole-school responsibility in an agreed strategic area. Proud to be part of the Bohunt Education Trust, SGS is a large, rural comprehensive school with over 2000 day school students.