Job overview

Hours: Full Time, term time only + 2 weeks

Responsible to: Director of Vocational Services

General:

Mary Hare educates 200 profoundly deaf children at its residential school in Berkshire, and we pride ourselves on our pupils’ achievements at GCSE, A Level as well as BTEC and Vocational Courses. We offer the opportunity to teach highly motivated children, in small classes, where you can make a real difference at this national centre of excellence for deaf education. No knowledge of sign language is required, as we follow an auditory/oral philosophy.

The Role:

You will be responsible for delivering and managing the Careers programme and our work placement programme, in conjunction with the transition and careers development officer.

This post will provide a high quality and effective careers and work placement programme across the school, embedding the Gatsby Benchmarks into the ethos of the school, creating industry links and maintaining accurate and timely records, working with staff, pupils, parents, and external agencies to ensure appropriate plans and strategies are in place to support pupils and their families.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To secure, update and manage work experience placements.
To maintain and build a portfolio of contacts in the LEP, businesses and industry, both local and students’ home location, by liaising with employers in a professional manner to ensure suitable placements are secured and good relationships are maintained.
To deal with telephone and email enquiries and contacts about the work experience programme, speaking with employers, parents, school staff and students, local authorities
To prepare students for work placement interviews
To organise staff to assist students in interviews with employers.
To undertake employer health and safety visits
To organise for students to be regularly observed in placements to ensure they are happy and settled.
To work with relevant staff to set up a supported internship scheme.
Organising a block placement for Year 11 and 12 students and organising extended placements for Sixth Form students and T Level Placements (if, and when those are offered).
To work with the EBP for student placements in Year 11 and 6th form where required
Overseeing and embedding the Gatsby Benchmarks into the curriculum, primary to post 16.
Collection of data and evidencing the work completed across school.
Creating and maintaining the calendar of events such as visiting speakers, leading developing and delivering the Sixth Form Transition programme.
To ensure the website has up-to-date details of the careers programme with contact details for external providers of technical education and apprenticeships.
To oversee the interviews of our students with our independent careers’ advisor.
Sending regular career updates/information to parents.
Producing relevant information for the Leavers pack.

About Mary Hare School

Mary Hare School
Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common, Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 3BQ
United Kingdom

+44 1635 244200

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Our vision

That all deaf children should receive the education and support which will enable them to achieve their full potential at home, school and in their subsequent careers

Objectives

Achieve the highest possible standards of educating deaf children, from early learning to tertiary education
Be a major influence of national policy, practice and guidance in relation to deaf children and their education
Enable families to achieve their vision and aspirations for their deaf child
Support deaf children and young people in their emotional and social well-being
Be recognised as a key provider of the highest quality training for all practitioners working with deaf children and young people
Provide consultancy, advisory support, assessment and technical services that support the vision

Our history

Towards the end of the 19th Century, a number of prominent women were beginning to influence events in ways which were to have a profound effect on developments in 20th Century society. One such woman was the educationalist Miss Mary Hare. Her vision was that deaf children were capable of realising the full potential of their intellect and that they had no need of shelter from the rigours of hearing society in the growing number of asylums for the deaf and dumb. Such shelter served only to deny them opportunities and fundamental rights. She set about overturning the short-sighted view that the deaf child's prime needs were for care and protection, by establishing a small school in London in 1883. By 1916 this centre of learning had blossomed into the Dene Hollow Oral School for the Deaf based in Sussex and widely regarded as one of the best schools for deaf children in the Kingdom. During these twenty or so years of growth and development, Mary Hare had been able to show that her vision was not only justified and realistic, but achievable.

It was to honour the great contribution that this pioneer had made to the education of deaf children, that shortly after her death in 1945, Dene Hollow School was redesignated as the National Grammar School for the Deaf. Bearing her name, The Mary Hare Grammar School came to serve the needs of potentially able severely and profoundly deaf children throughout the United Kingdom. The rapid growth that this change brought necessitated a move to larger premises, and in 1948 the school acquired and occupied its present beautiful site close to Newbury in Berkshire. It is our hope that half a century after Mary Hare's death, the achievements of our pupils today still serve to honour her name and her vision.

Local information and facilities

Newbury is a market town located in West Berkshire in England in the UK with good bus, rail and road links and is located 50 miles south west of London. There are a wide selection of hotels in Newbury offering good hotel accommodation and bed and breakfast accommodation for visitors in and around Newbury. The Kennet and Avon Canal disects the town which has many historical buildings and places of interest including the Corn Exchange Theatre and the Museum by the Canal. The Newbury Racecourse is within 1 mile of the town centre and nearby are Highclere Castle, Donnington Castle, Snelsmore Countryside Park, the Ridgeway, the Downs and a host of other attractions.

School Information

Mary Hare School is the largest school for profoundly and severely deaf children in the UK. Mary Hare teaches using an auditory oral approach, so that children learn though spoken and written English – no sign language is used in teaching. The school has maintained a high standard, with over 85% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSEs for the last 5 years and 95 % pass rate at A level. Nearly all leavers go on to further education.

The school is part of a large national charity and benefits from the additional activities of the Mary Hare Charity. An active fundraising department and various trading activities generate funds to support the development of the school. The Training Division provides opportunities for teachers to attend national and international conferences organised on site. The Training Division also offers post-graduate courses including the mandatory qualification for Teachers of the Deaf and the MSc in Educational Audiology and MA in Special Education (Hearing Impairment).

Mary Hare also has an Arts Centre on site, which houses the school’s music and performing arts department, but also offers a programme of arts events including music, theatre dance and comedy.

For further information please visit our website: www.maryhare.org.uk

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