Senior School Housemistress
Malvern St James
Great Malvern, Worcs.
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 8 February 2018
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated Housemistress who can combine creativity with enthusiasm and experience to run the newly refurbished Year 13 House. This position offers an excellent opportunity establish the relaunch of a dedicated Year 13 Transition House. The position enables you to work closely with the girls in the House to ensure their academic and pastoral wellbeing as well as their personal development ensuring they are fully prepared for their next step in life. This is a key role which offers the opportunity to be fully involved in the life of the School.
Boarding is at the heart of the MSJ ethos. The successful candidate must be an excellent communicator, approachable and with a proven ability to interact with others in a sensitive and caring manner. She must have first-class leadership and organisational skills to help drive forward the vision of the School.
Due to the nature of the role within the boarding house, the successful candidate will be female.
Malvern St James is a leading boarding and day school for girls aged 4 to 18, which achieves outstanding results within an exceptionally creative, warm and supportive community. We offer:
- the opportunity to teach highly motivated, talented pupils
- commitment to professional development
- a convenient location in Malvern, with excellent transport links
- a competitive salary scale.
Closing date: Thursday 8 February 2018
Application forms and further details may be obtained from our website www.malvernstjames.co.uk or by contacting Mrs Alison Barber, Office Manager, by emailing recruitment@malvernstjames.co.uk
Malvern St James is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service clearance at enhanced level.
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About Malvern St James
Malvern St James Girls’ School is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the foot of the Malvern Hills and is a leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3-18. Our values today reflect those of our founding schools, set up in the nineteenth century by pioneering proponents of women’s education. In this inspirational setting, MSJ continues a fine heritage of academic rigour, outstanding enrichment and leadership opportunities, and preparing girls for rewarding careers and lives beyond school.
MSJ is an exceptional place for learning and living. Every girl matters to us, and our size (at around 450 pupils) means that we can offer an individually tailored education. Our focus is on inspiring teaching to deliver excellent academic results; and equally on encouraging intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, considered risk-taking and collaboration that universities and employers will value. Our enrichment programme is as long as it is broad, and has something to fire the imagination of every individual: clubs for budding engineers and scientists, extra-curricular languages, drama, music, Leiths, journalism, photography, sport of every kind, Young Enterprise, Debating and Model United Nations … to name but a few.
Life at MSJ is underpinned by first class pastoral support which makes us a happy and friendly community, relaxed yet purposeful, with a real sense of family. When girls reach the end of their time here, they are thoroughly prepared to embrace life’s challenges. The diverse list of graduate courses at the most prestigious institutions and the competitive career paths that girls go on to is testament to MSJ’s culture of ambition and achievement. Our alumnae network helps our community to forge valuable links for life.
As a school we have a roughly equal number of day girls and boarders, allowing us to offer the best of both worlds and a very flexible boarding programme. We have full, weekly and flexi boarding options, designed to meet the needs of modern family lives. Our position in the town of Great Malvern, situated in the heart of England, means we benefit from excellent transport links and cultural opportunities all around the UK, including a direct train service from London.
Our girls work hard but have fun on the way, making lifelong friends and memories. Please do come and see for yourselves what makes MSJ tick and meet our happy, poised and confident girls and young women, who are free to be themselves and find the things which will instigate a life-long passion for learning.
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