Head of Future Schools
Handcross Park Prep School
West Sussex
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required January 2025 or April 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2024
Job overview
We are looking for a well-qualified and experienced leader, who will take on this exciting new role, focused on nurturing excellent relationships with Brighton College as well as with a wide range of other senior schools, to which our pupils progress.
The Head of Future Schools will have a specific responsibility for assessment, including ISEB Pre-Tests and all examinations. They will become an important member of our Senior Leadership Team and will be pivotal within the academic leadership of a school. We seek someone who loves getting involved across many aspects of a broad prep school experience. Exceptional people skills, outstanding levels of organisation and efficiency, flexibility and energy, together with positivity and a willingness to ‘go the extra mile’, are all essential.
Details of the post and application forms are available on the school website www.handcrossparkschool.co.uk or from hr@handxpark.com Tel: 01444 400526.
A letter of application (no more than 2 typed pages) highlighting why you are the ideal candidate for this role and a completed and signed application form should be addressed to the Headmaster, Jonnie Besley, as soon as possible. Letters and application forms should be sent to hr@handxpark.com.
We encourage early applications and hope to appoint before Christmas.
Handcross Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils.
The successful applicant will be required to undergo appropriate child welfare screening including checks with former employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).
The School is an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity No. 307038
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About Handcross Park Prep School
- Handcross Park Prep School
- Handcross, Haywards Heath
- West Sussex
- RH17 6HF
- United Kingdom
Handcross Park is a popular co-educational, day and boarding Prep School for around 400 pupils aged 2 to 13. Set in large, idyllic grounds, we are part of the Brighton College Family of Schools. Our school is purposeful, ambitious, forward-thinking and, most importantly of all, it is kind. Our motto is Be Trewe, and it encompasses a set of core values that we work hard to weave through the fabric of all that we do.
Situated in the village of Handcross, adjacent to the M23, the School is 20 minutes from Brighton and 15 minutes from Horsham and Gatwick. The School attracts day children from surrounding towns including Haywards Heath, Horsham and Crawley and neighbouring villages. Boarders include children from London (weekly boarders) and a wide international community.
With excellent, inspiring teaching, we provide a broad and innovative education whilst focusing on traditional values such as kindness, good manners and mutual respect. We ensure that each child reaches his or her own individual potential, both in and out of the classroom.
Our purpose-built Nursery and Pre-Prep, also known as The Secret Garden, is located within an old walled garden and offers a safe and inspiring environment with an extended outdoor play area and access to our Forest School. Children may enter our Nursery at the age of 2 and move onto the Prep School at the age of 7.
The Prep School has excellent facilities enabling teaching staff to broaden every aspect of a child’s education and these include an IT suite, science labs, a music school, a large sports hall, DT workshop, art studio, an outdoor classroom, an indoor swimming pool and extensive sports fields. There is also a full after school activities programme offering more than 100 clubs.
Our excellent Common Entrance record and outstanding scholarship results (Academic, Sport, Music, Drama, and more) are testament to the teaching we provide, preparing our children for Brighton College and other top senior schools.
Our Boarding House is situated in the heart of the main school building and currently has beds for around 56 boys and girls from the age of 7. With both weekly and full boarding available, the boarding community is a vibrant one.
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