Housemaster/Housemistress - (Teaching) Junior Day/Boarding House
The Leys School
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Starting September 2024
- Apply by:
- 14 February 2024
Job overview
Housemaster/Housemistress (Teaching) for a Junior Day/Boarding House
Founded in 1875, The Leys is a hugely warm and welcoming community situated in the city of Cambridge. We are a very successful school academically and in terms of our wider curricular achievements and have just been named East Anglian Independent School of the Year for 2024 in the Sunday Times Schools Guide. We are known for our strong pastoral care and helping individual pupils to achieve their potential both in and out of the classroom. We are looking to recruit a Housemaster/mistress for our Junior Day/Boarding House - Moulton House.
The successful candidate will play a key role in helping us shape boarding provision within the school community and provide leadership within Moulton House. Your role is to be a role model for all those within your house and ensure our pupils thrive in a safe, happy, well-ordered, warm and friendly environment. You will liaise with parents, have responsibility for providing daily structure to pupils’ lives, and ensure the safeguarding and welfare of our pupils.
Please see the attached Candidate Information Pack for full details.
The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated, successful, and welcoming team of teaching and business professionals, committed to working together to combine their skills, experience, and insights to deliver an excellent education to our pupils. All those involved in the pastoral life of the school take part in the wider life of the school and the successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the academic provision as well as the wider curriculum programme.
There are huge benefits to joining our pastoral team. You will have the chance to widen your pastoral experience both formally (through BSA and HMC qualifications) and informally (through in-house training). Boarding staff live on site and receive a subsidised living allowance. Staff and their families have access to an onsite gym and other facilities. The Leys is an extremely rewarding place to work. We hope you will take the time to look at our website, The Leys School, to find out more about us.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Before appointment to any role in the school, checks including an Enhanced DBS Check and workplace references will be undertaken in accordance with current statutory guidance. Evidence of eligibility to work in the UK is required. A 12-month probationary period will also apply.
The Foundation is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes and values diversity and celebrates the diverse voice of our community.
How to apply:
If you are interested in applying, please submit a completed application form including covering letter explain why you are suitable for the role, to The Recruitment Team (recruitment@theleys.net), The Leys School,
Cambridge, CB2 7AD by 09.00 am on Wednesday 14 February 2024. Interviews will take place w/c 26 February 2024, but applications will be reviewed as they are received. We encourage early application as we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy when a suitable candidate has been appointed.
This role has the opportunity for regular contact with pupils and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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Attached documents
About The Leys School
The first thing to say is that The Leys is the leading co-educational boarding and day school in Cambridge.
The second thing to say is that the above statement, whilst true, does not begin to convey what makes this such a special place.
The Leys is an inclusive and inspiring co-educational boarding and day school offering an incredible learning environment and pupil experience in Cambridge. Putting pupils at the heart of everything we do, our shared values create a strong, caring, and cohesive community. The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated, successful, and welcoming team of teaching and business professionals, committed to working together to combine their skills, experience, and insights to deliver an excellent education to our pupils.
The Leys is an extremely rewarding place to work. We hope you will take the time to look at our website, The Leys School, to find out more about us.
We are more than just a school. The Leys is a close-knit, engaged, friendly community in which pastoral care is seen as our top priority. I often say to visitors that we see ourselves as a big, small school: big enough to offer a huge range of opportunities, but small enough that we are able to get to know individuals, with all their individual strengths and unique characters, and able to encourage them to strive to be the best they can be. The confidence which our pupils gain from this encouraging family atmosphere is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer them – without it, they cannot hope to fulfil their potential in work and play.
Established in 1875, The Leys values its history, yet it blends traditional values – courtesy, kindness, tolerance, respect, decency – with a forward and outward-looking approach to education. Dedicated staff and superb facilities combine powerfully as we prepare young people for the challenges which lie ahead at university and beyond. Yet I have always believed that school is, or should be, about far more than merely “preparation for life”. Indeed, my ambition is that Leysians will be able to look back on their experiences here as amongst the most intrinsically rewarding, challenging and stimulating chapters of their developing lives.
Set in the centre of the beautiful and stimulating city of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading cultural and academic cities, our unique location allows our pupils unrivalled opportunities to achieve the exceptional. Our added-value in academic progress is highly impressive, and the range of creative, cultural and sporting opportunities is breathtaking. We are rightly proud of our pupils’ achievements, both in the classroom and outside it, but the greatest pride we have is in the pupils themselves. They are our greatest achievement.
I look forward to welcoming you.
Martin Priestley
Headmaster
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