MONMOUTH SCHOOL
APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY HEAD
The Headmaster seeks to appoint a dynamic, successful and well qualified graduate Teacher with suitable experience to take a leading role in the management and Development of Monmouth School from September 2010.
THE SCHOOL
Monmouth School was founded in 1614, by William Jones, and is one of the schools of The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. A generous endowment enables the School to provide superb facilities and an excellent academic education whilst keeping fees at a reasonable level. There are many scholarships and bursaries and the Haberdashers’ Assisted Places Scheme, which replaced the Government scheme in 1998, ensures that an education at Monmouth School can be available to boys who will benefit from it, irrespective of their parents’ income.
The School is set in the delightful landscape of the Wye Valley and much use is made of the surrounding countryside for expeditions and other outward-bound activities. There is a strong tradition of music and drama as well as of excellence in sport. A new sports complex was opened in Autumn 1999, a studio theatre in January 2001 and additional outdoor facilities, including an all-weather pitch in Autumn 2001. The Blake Theatre (500 seats) was completed in Summer 2004. Last year saw the completion of a state of the art sports pavilion and a new building and site for our very successful Prep School, The Grange. Other recent developments have included greatly expanded ICT facilities as well as refurbished boarding houses and classroom blocks. The Sixth Form has a dedicated Sixth Form Centre.
The senior school consists of 584 boarders and day boys (aged 11-18). The preparatory department has 111 day boys (aged 7-11). The Headmaster has overall responsibility for both the senior school and The Grange.
Monmouth School is enriched by close co-operation with Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls in many areas of school life, especially at Sixth Form level.
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPUTY HEAD
The Deputy Head is responsible for the day to day management of pupils and staff and takes a leading role in the development and ethos of the school. In so doing he/she will work closely with other members of the Senior Management Team which comprises the Headmaster, the Deputy Head, the Director of Studies, the Head of Sixth Form, the Head of The Grange, the Bursar and the Senior Boarding Housemaster.
It goes without saying that the Deputy Head will also be teacher of great ability whose classroom management of pupils is exemplary. The Deputy Head will be expected to take a particular interest in boarding at the School and to work to support and sustain its continuing success.
The Deputy Head will need to be able to establish excellent relationships with the Common Room and to act as an effective channel of communication between the Headmaster and the Common Room.
The School works in close co-operation with our sister school, Haberdasher’s Monmouth School for Girls and enjoys excellent relations with the local community; the Deputy Head will be expected to seek ways in which these links can be maintained and strengthened.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
The likely areas for which the Deputy Head will have specific responsibility include the following:
1. Deputise for the Headmaster when necessary and support School activities, including those out of normal School hours.
2. Assist and advise the Headmaster in relation to the appointment of new staff.
3. Convene and, in the absence of the Headmaster, chair meetings of the Housemasters.
4. Co-ordinate and support the work of the Housemasters, both boarding and day, and the network of house tutors.
5. Act as the Child Protection Officer for Monmouth School and The Grange and therefore to be well informed in respect of legislation and good practice in this area, and liaise with the local social services department and other agencies.
6. Ensure the maintenance of good order throughout the school by:
· Taking overall responsibility for all matters of pupil discipline
· Providing support and guidance to members of the Common Room
· Overseeing routines such as daily registration and detention and maintaining appropriate records
· Contacting parents as necessary
· Co-ordinating and supporting the duties of the School Prefects
7. Acting as the general manager of the Common Room including:
· Oversight of staff absences and the administration of staff cover
· Co-ordination of staff duties
· Supporting the Director of Studies and Senior Mentor with the induction of new staff, the School’s INSET programme and participation in ITT
· Revision of the staff handbook on an annual basis
· Selection and supervision of GAP students and Fellows
8. Participate, as a member of the Joint Schools’ Steering Committee, in the development of co-operation between the School and Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls.
9. Take overall responsibility for the provision of sport within the School; chair the Games Committee; support the Head of PE in the staffing and organisation of the games programme and to monitor the fixture list and other issues relating to competitive sport.
10. Take overall responsibility for the provision of the extra-curricular and extra-mural activities of the School, seeking to maintain a balance between them and the other activities of the School; to support the Educational Visits Co-ordinator and to ensure the maintenance of appropriate standards of health and safety.
11. Organise the School’s major public events such as Speech Day, General Entrance Examination Day, the School Carol Service, Form I – V parents’ evenings and the annual Deputation of the Haberdashers’ Company; support the programme of Chapel worship as required.
12. Manage and promote effective communications within the School including:
· Effectiveness of notice boards in the Common Room and elsewhere
· Production of the weekly information sheet
· Production of the termly calendar and, with the Director of Studies, the yearly School diary.
13. Liaise with the Bursar, who is the School Health and Safety Co-ordinator, on relevant matters, and to oversee fire evacuation procedures and practices.
14. The management of pupils with specific dietary requirements by liaising with admissions, the School nurses, matrons, caterers and Housemasters.
15. Participate as a Principal Appraiser in the School’s Professional Development Scheme for teaching staff.
16. Have reasonable competence in the use of ICT.
17. Teach a timetable of between ten and twelve periods each week.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The salary will be paid on the Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools Heads and Deputy Heads Pay Scale at a level commensurate with the post and experience.
Two terms notice is required.
Subject to normal entry requirements, children of staff are eligible for two-thirds fee remission at Monmouth School, The Grange (7-11), Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls and Haberdashers’ Agincourt School (Boys and Girls 3-7).
Staff are expected to live in or near the town of Monmouth and short-term accommodation may be available. Removal expenses will be paid.
Secretarial support is available to the Deputy Head.
Deputy Head September 2009