JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE ROLE OF DEPUTY HEAD (PASTORAL) FOR APPOINTMENT 1 SEPTEMBER 2018
JOB DESCRIPTION DEPUTY HEAD (PASTORAL) A1 (M) A14 BURY ST EDMUNDS A14 NEWMARKET CAMBRIDGE A12 IPSWICH CONTENTS KEY FACTS 2 CONTEXT 3 THE ROLE 7 THE PERSON 8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 11 HOW TO APPLY 12 KEY FACTS Type of Schoo: Co-educationa, boarding and day Age range: 11 18 Number of pupis: 750 Number of boarders: 450 Teacher/pupi ratio: 1:8 Reigious tradition: Christian M25 A1 (M) M25 HEATHROW M1 LIVERPOOL M25 STREET STATION LONDON GATWICK STANSTED M20 A12 COLCHESTER CHELMSFORD Fees per term: Boarding 7,795 9,995 and day 4,845 5,300 ISC associations: HMC, The Society of Heads and Boarding Schoos Association M2 A2 FELIXSTOWE DOVER 2
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL SCHOOL NAVIGATING SUCCESS The Roya Hospita Schoo (RHS) was founded in London in 1712 by the Roya Nava Crown charity, Greenwich Hospita, to educate the chidren of the Hospita s pensioners and prepare them for a ife at sea. Many went on to become famous admiras, exporers and pioneers. The Schoo is sti owned by Greenwich Hospita, whose soe Trustee is the Secretary of State for Defence on behaf of the Crown. RHS is immensey proud of its historic, roya and navainks, and discovery, exporation and chaenge continue to shape its ethos. The traditiona vaues of oyaty, commitment, courage, respect, service and integrity have underpinned the Schoo s core aims and phiosophy from the very beginning. Three hundred years ater, they are as reevant to the education provided now, as they were then. Today the Roya Hospita Schoo is set in 200 acres of beautifu Suffok countryside overooking the Stour Estuary and within an hour of London. RHS is a eading independent, co-educationa boarding and day schoo providing a fu and broad education, fit for the modern word. RHS inspires pupis to have the courage to be ambitious for their futures and the commitment to pursue whichever path they choose. We chaenge pupis of a academic abiities, steering them to ook beyond the moment and beyond the confines of the cassroom, and to approach ife with an open and receptive mind. It is through thinking creativey and taking the initiative that they discover their infuence, strengths and ambitions and estabish the skis they need to pursue purposefu and fufiing ives. Everyone can achieve the most exceptiona things but we are a different. That is why we focus on the individua, getting to know every one of our pupis and finding out what motivates them. By understanding a young person s strengths, and what he or she might find more difficut, we can hep them to make the right choices at the right time. It is this focus on persona chaenge and individua guidance that enabes pupis to deveop into sef-reiant, sociay responsibe aduts with enviabe open-mindedness and resiience, quaities which are so sought-after by empoyers and important in ife. 3
SCHOOL MISSION, VISION AND AIMS Our Mission is to understand each young person s strengths, to hep them to make the right choices at the right time, navigating through their critica, formative years and ensuring their education becomes the foundation for their happiness and success. Our Vision is to achieve nationa and internationa recognition as the schoo of choice for parents seeking an outstanding a-round and fu education for their chidren, enriched by a unique nava heritage. These are the Aims of the Roya Hospita Schoo: to deveop inteectua curiosity and academic confidence; to enabe every pupi to fufi their potentia, grow into the person they wish to become and be prepared for ife after schoo; to inspire eadership, adventure and sef-discovery; to foster creativity and imagination; to provide a secure and nurturing community which promotes webeing, fitness and heathy competition; to insti the vaues of service, oyaty and commitment and uphod the Schoo s unique and rich heritage; to cutivate a goba outook and environmenta responsibiity. INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS INSPECTORATE 2015 In its most recent Independent Schoos Inspectorate report RHS was rated Exceent in every area and described as foows: The Schoo has cear aspirations for its pupis. It seeks to promote the attributes of inspiration, chaenge and eadership in its pupis. Pupis are encouraged to strive for academic exceence and to endorse the vaues of service, oyaty and commitment whist uphoding the Schoo s unique and rich heritage. The Schoo encourages eadership and a sense of adventure and sef-discovery. A high priority is the promotion of service both within the Schoo and to the wider community. The Schoo aims to foster creativity and imagination within a civiised, caring, Christian community, based on high standards of behaviour, mutua respect, trust and courtesy between staff and pupis. The Schoo cutivates a goba outook and sense of environmenta responsibiity. It aims to encourage pupis to deveop fitness, webeing and enter into heathy competition. For the fu report pease cick here. 4
PASTORAL EXCELLENCE A staff are encouraged to take a deep persona interest in pupi wefare and understand that young peope need to fee supported if they are to succeed academicay and that exceent pastora care must underpin a good academic education. Here at RHS, regardess of whether pupis are day or boarding pupis, an incrediby effective pastora network is designed to ensure that at every stage of the RHS journey our pupis are cared for, nurtured, supported, istened to and provided with a the appropriate guidance to hep them deveop in confidence. Our house system is taiored to meet the specific needs of each age group. The junior, Year 7 house is run by an experienced team of staff with considerabe expertise in deaing with this age group. As pupis progress through the schoo the structures and routines in the houses change to meet the needs of the maturing young peope unti they reach the Sixth Form and take on positions of responsibiity. In their fina year, Neson House is regarded as the pinnace of their time at RHS - not ony the pace to focus on A Leve study but aso the perfect springboard to ife beyond. Each pupi has a house-based persona tutor someone who is responsibe for overseeing their academic achievements and pastora wefare, and providing a ink between teachers and parents. The Schoo is fortunate to have a arge and we-resourced Heath Centre that operates 24/7. Fuy staffed by registered nurses, it aso accommodates a daiy doctor s surgery, a denta surgery and a wide range of speciaist medica services incuding counseing and physiotherapy. HOUSE SYSTEM There is a strong house system providing exceent accommodation for 450 boarders and 350 day pupis. This mix of boarding and day has changed consideraby over the past 10 years. In 2005 the schoo was made up of 660 boarders with just a handfu of day pupis accommodated in the boarding houses. Consequenty, there has been a period of constant review as the demographics have changed and an 18m investment programme into the boarding accommodation. Today, pupis entering in Year 7 go into a junior house for both boarding and day pupis, which is a chance to get to know the whoe year group and sette into ife at senior schoo. From Year 8, there are three senior boys and three senior girs boarding houses to choose from, with fourbedded rooms for younger pupis and doube or singe studies for seniors. Raeigh, Drake and Cornwais Houses provide superb faciities for day pupis in Years 8 to 12, the atter aso with ad hoc boarding accommodation. In the Upper Sixth, boys and girs join Neson House in singe studies, where independent iving is encouraged in preparation for university ife. 5
SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES Through its parent charity, Greenwich Hospita, the chidren of those serving or who have served in the Roya Navy or Roya Marines can appy for entry irrespective of financia means. Currenty 101 nava chidren are supported by these Greenwich Hospita bursaries and discounts. In addition, the Schoo works with the SpringBoard Bursary Foundation and other charitabe partners to provide bursary paces for chidren who woud benefit from an independent boarding education. The Schoo ceebrates and rewards exceence through schoarships (academic, saiing, music, art, design, sport and drama) and offers awards and exhibitions at entry eve. These schoarships, exhibitions and awards confer a sma discount on the fees but can be suppemented by meanstested bursaries, widening access to pupis who may not otherwise be abe to afford an independent education. For further information on the Roya Hospita Schoo, pease see www.royahospitaschoo.org. TEACHING AND LEARNING Pupis are not educated simpy to pass exams but to enjoy the adventure of earning and to deveop a ifeong appetite for knowedge. The curricuum is broad and baanced, combining the best of academic traditions with the atest technoogies. The embedding of mobie technoogy into teaching and earning was competed in September 2015, with every pupi and teacher using an ipad in cassrooms and for panning. The Schoo is an Appe Regiona Training Centre which provides teachers and technica staff from schoos and coeges a over the region the opportunity to access expertise, training and best practice to support their use of technoogy in the cassroom. In August 2017, 90% of pupis achieved A* C or 9 4 at GCSE with over a third of resuts graded at A*/A. At A Leve, over 80% of pupis achieved A* C with the argest proportion achieving A*/A for many years. Pupi success comes in many forms and post-schoo options for the eavers of 2017 range from studying at Oxford to higher degree apprenticeships to direct entry into the armed forces. Exceent faciities incude an art, design and technoogy centre, we-stocked reference and mutimedia ibrary, and ICT suites. Music, drama and dance pay an important part in schooife and this is emphasised by a 3.6 miion Music Schoo housing a 200-seat recita ha, 18 practice and speciaist rooms, a technica suite and a rock room, sitting aongside the cathedra-proportioned chape. The Schoo has a strong musica tradition, and the band and choir have performed at the Roya Abert Ha, St Pau s Cathedra, St James Paace, Lord s Cricket Ground and Twickenham Stadium, as we as touring in Europe, Sri Lanka, the USA, Canada and throughout the UK. 6
THE ROLE The Roya Hospita Schoo is seeking an outstanding and experienced individua to ead and infuence the pastora wefare of the Schoo community. The successfu candidate wi be an inspirationa teaching practitioner with strong eadership skis. He/she wi be an ambitious can do person, with exceent organisationa, interpersona and communication skis. The abiity to introduce fresh thinking and innovative ideas wi be seen as a major asset. The successfu candidate wi have benefitted from experience in different schoos, and wi have made a demonstrabe impact in pastora areas and in positions they have hed. The roe is to assist in the overaeadership and management of the Schoo, as part of the Senior Management Team (SMT), with overa responsibiity for a pastora matters and to take a strategic ead in the further deveopment of pupi wefare. The individua wi be expected to have a high eve of emotiona inteigence and a track record of estabishing positive and effective reationships with pupis, parents and members of the schoo community. Experience of managing staff effectivey, preferaby as part of a senior team, wi be essentia. The roe may suit someone who aspires to ead their own schoo. 7
THE PERSON The Deputy Head (Pastora) of the Roya Hospita Schoo wi: Be educated to degree eve and have a record of reevant professiona deveopment; Have a cear understanding of and a commitment to the aims of a arge independent boarding and day schoo, showing fexibiity and wiingness to commit fuy to the Schoo during term time; Have experience of management, preferaby as part of a senior management team, and may have aspirations to move on to headship; Have an appreciation of the whoe schoo perspective on a matters; Have a proven record of successfu management of peope and command respect from pupis, parents and coeagues; Have strong presentationa skis to pupis, parents and the wider schoo community; Have exceent interpersona skis, a high degree of emotiona inteigence and a proven abiity to motivate, enthuse and drive forward individuas and teams to achieve successfu outcomes; Be abe to think creativey and strategicay; Demonstrate the abiity to identify and sove probems and show initiative; Be highy organised and abe to use time effectivey in meeting deadines as we as making time to fufi the roe; Have stamina, resiience and a sense of humour; Be oya and discreet with a proven record of working both independenty and as part of a team; Have high persona and professiona standards and an appetite for hard work; Have the abiity to deegate, to pan, to communicate effectivey and to sove probems; Have the desire to get invoved in a significant aspects of Roya Hospita Schooife and be committed to the ethos and vaues of the Schoo. 8
Deputy Head (Pastora) Repor ng to: Headmaster Main tasks: 1. Overa responsibiity for the pastora care of pupis and to advise the Headmaster on a ma ers rea ng to the pastora care and wefare of pupis within the Schoo. 2. Responsibiity for the Schoo s compiance with Na ona Minimum Standards. 3. To ead and manage pastora wefare pans with invovement of a stakehoders, incuding being the point of contact for externa agencies. 4. To advise Senior House Staff on pastora/discipinary ma ers. 5. To provide advice and training on issues rea ng to adoescent and chid menta heath; this wi incude advice and guidance to both staff and parents. 6. Responsibiity for the screening and assessment of suitabiity for prospec ve pupis with par cuar pastora needs. 7. To be the point of contact and representa ve for SpringBoard, ooked a er and Greenwich Bursary pupis. 8. Responsibiity for par cuar oversight and interest in the induc on and discrete support for pupis joining from significanty different cutura and socio-economic backgrounds. 9. To ead and promote exceent tutoring across the schoo through the Heads of Year. 10. To support the Second Master as the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. 11. Responsibiity for the Schoo s pastora appraisa system for teaching staff and acting as the ead appraiser for a Senior House Staff. 12. Responsibiity for the ine management and opera on of the pastora staff to incude: a. Aoca on of staff to houses. b. Provision for staff absence in houses and oversight of staff duty rotas. 13. To appoint, train, manage and appraise house matrons and non-teaching house staff. 14. Responsibiity for the ine management of the Heath Centre staff. 15. To par cipate in the process of seec ng Schoo Prefects and to assist with Schoo Prefect training. 16. Responsibiity for the aoca on of pupis to houses supported by the Assistant Head (Pastora) and the Admissions Department. 17. To represent the Schoo from me to me at recruitment/marke ng events. Page 1 of 2 9
18. Responsibiity for the appointment and training of Peer Supporters and Peer Support Leaders. 19. To meet the reevant Heath & Safety requirements. 20. To share daiy du es with the Second Master and other members of senior staff, incuding 7-days a week avaiabiity to cope with emergencies, and undertake any further tasks as directed by the Headmaster. 21. To contribute to the posi ve wefare of the staff community by ensuring staff are recognised for good work and fee vaued, and to ensure RHS is a good pace to work and can a ract strong staff who are commi ed to the academic and boarding principes. 22. To chair the foowing mee ngs and commi ees a. Senior House Staff mee ngs. (Weeky) b. Pastora Commi ee Mee ngs. (Weeky) c. Heads of Houses Mee ngs. (Haf termy) 23. To a end the foowing mee ngs and commi ees a. Senior management mee ng (Weeky) b. Strategy mee ngs c. Governors Educa ona Sub-Commi ee (Termy) d. Any others as iden fied by the Headmaster 24. Addi ona administra ve tasks: a. Responsibiity for pupis hair-cu ng arrangements. b. To contribute to the interview process for new teaching staff appointments, as directed by the Headmaster. 2 2 10
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE The Headmaster eads a Senior Management Team comprising the foowing: Second Master Director of Finance & Operations (Bursar) Deputy Head (Pastora) Assistant Head (Pastora) Deputy Head (Academic) Director of Curricuum, Teaching & Learning Assistant Head (Co-Curricuar) Head of Sixth Form Director of Communications THE BENEFITS RHS is situated in a rura setting but with exceent inks to London and Cambridge and we-served by nearby Ipswich. The community is incrediby wecoming and has an active caendar of activities incuding staff socia events, reguar opportunities to pay sport such as cimbing, cricket and footba. There is aso a staff socia cub which hosts events. RHS is a progressive, caring empoyer and it is fuy committed to deveoping its staff. The Schoo has a broad interna Inset programme, supports coeagues in a range of Higher Education quaifications and is an Appe Regiona Training Centre. The Schoo prides itsef on the wecoming and incusive staff community where 80% of teaching staff ive on site. RHS has its own pay scae and chidren of staff are eigibe for a generous subsidised fee remission subject to the norma admissions criteria, and chidcare vouchers for eary years earning through saary sacrifice. A members of staff have access to the Schoo s sports faciities which incude a brand new fitness gym, tennis and squash courts and a gof course. A three daiy meas are avaiabe during term time. On-site faciities incude NHS denta care, and access to aundry and dry ceaning. This post woud be an appropriate stepping stone for one who aspires to go on to headship. There wi be opportunities to work cosey with Governors, to engage with the Schoo s strategic deveopment, to represent the Schoo and cruciay, to define and ead initiatives of one s own. Accommodation wi be provided for the successfu candidate. The Deputy Head (Pastora) wi work such hours as necessary to propery discharge his or her duties whether or not such hours are within norma schoo time. The Deputy Head (Pastora) wi be entited to take reasonabe hoidays during norma schoo hoidays but may be required to assist with occasiona whoe schoo duties during hoiday periods. The post is pensionabe through the Teachers Pension Scheme. 11
HOW TO APPLY TERMS & CONDITIONS For a confidentia discussion about the roe pease ca our HR Manager on 01473 326200. An information pack is aso avaiabe by contacting the Schoo at: recruitment@royahospitaschoo.org Appicants shoud submit a copy of the Schoo s appication form aong with a covering etter of no more than two sides. The Roya Hospita Schoo woud ike the successfu candidate to commence empoyment for 1 September 2018. The gross annua saary wi be competitive and wi be commensurate with the experience of the successfu candidate. The conditions and expectations are outined in the standard contract, job description (Teacher and Deputy Head (Pastora)) and the Teacher s Code of Conduct. INTERVIEW TIMETABLE The deadine for appications is Wednesday 22 November 2017 at 17:00. Initia interviews wi take pace at the Roya Hospita Schoo during the week commencing Monday 27 November 2017 (date to be confirmed). Fina interviews and presentation wi take pace in the week commencing Monday 4 December 2017. The Roya Hospita Schoo is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wefare of chidren and young peope and expects a staff and vounteers to share this commitment. The successfu candidate wi be subject to a DBS check and references. NOTE: Athough this document is designed to give a fair picture of the nature of the roe and conditions of empoyment, it does not represent a egay binding contract. A separate contract of empoyment wi be submitted for that purpose upon receipt of references and acceptance of a verba offer made to the successfu candidate. WWW.ROYALHOSPITALSCHOOL.ORG 12