After School Supervisor
Bedford School
Bedford
- New
- Expiring soon
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Commencing as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 September 2024
Job overview
Part Time, Term Time Only
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Library team, as a After School Supervisor. Are you passionate about creating a safe and nurturing environment for young minds to thrive? Do you enjoy providing guidance to students to support academic growth? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
At Bedford School we believe that learning doesn't end when the final school bell rings at 4.15 pm. We are committed to providing a supportive and stimulating environment for our students even after school hours.
As an After School Supervisor, your main duty will be to supervise boys in the library, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment that is conducive to undertaking their homework or private study. In addition to assisting with general library duties, including but not limited to: using functions of the library management system to issue books and complete stock work, checking borrower accounts and aiding students with queries.
The hours of work for this role are 4.45pm to 7pm Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Friday. On Thursday the hours of work are 4.45pm to 8.30pm. However, we recognise the importance of flexibility in the workplace. We understand that a traditional 5 day a week role may not suit everyone, and we are committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements, reduced working days, or job-sharing opportunities. Whether you're looking to work fewer days, or share responsibilities with another professional, we encourage you to apply.
Please indicate your preferred working arrangement in your application, and we’ll be happy to discuss how we can best accommodate your needs.
If you would like any further information or would like to have a chat about the position, please email lchatley@bedfordschool.org.uk
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Bedford School reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made. Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply early.
Closing Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
Interview date: TBC
The Harpur Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other checks.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust
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About Bedford School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply ‘be’ together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.
Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages – there is no ‘typical’ Bedford student.
Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.
Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.
Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.
Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of ‘sport for all’ and we regularly field E and F teams.
We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.
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