Reference: FEB20258651
Expiry date: 09:00, Mon, 24th Feb 2025
Location: Bedales School, Church Road, Steep, Hampshire
Benefits: On site parking, free school lunches during term time, Personal Accident Cover
As Outdoor Work Assistant you’ll play a key role in a lively, highly unique department which teaches animal husbandry, gardening skills, land management, craft and cookery. You’ll provide support for a variety of activities, such as pizza making, willow weaving, wool craft and cookery. No two days will be the same; one day you could be helping make chutney from the tomatoes students have grown, the next sorting wool from our own flock of Jacob sheep.
You will support the delivery of high-quality lessons by ensuring ingredients, materials, equipment, resources and learning environments are suitably prepared, cleaned and maintained. This role requires both indoor and outdoor working throughout the academic year, and you’ll be predominantly based in our beautiful Bakehouse.
Bedales School is a unique educational establishment, set in the beautiful Hampshire countryside. Our aim is to create an environment where questioning, divergent thinking and freedom to learn from mistakes are all encouraged. Central to our success is the sense that each person is a member of our community whose voice is entitled to be heard and treated with respect. Both our staff and students expect of each other the best kind of relationships – co-operative, authentic and trustful.
Experience & Background
The successful candidate will need to be a reliable, flexible and proactive individual, who can use their own initiative, as well as work as part of a team. Experience of stock taking and management, as well as experience of working with young people would be beneficial but not essential as full training and support will be given.
Duties
1. Ordering food, materials and equipment and maintaining records
2. Day to day responsibility for running the ODW shop
3. Class set up, clearing and tidying down after lessons
4. Providing support in lessons, as directed by the Teacher
This post is Regulated Activity.
Hours of Work
You will be required to work 32 hours each week, Monday to Friday during term time. This post works during the 33 weeks of the academic year. In addition, you will be required to work a further 32 hours in the school holidays that will be agreed in advance and will usually fall at the beginning or end of each term. The ODW team is required to cover the hours of 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday. You will need to be flexible, and your start and finish times may be different each day, as well as subject to change each academic year driven by the teaching timetable. In return we can offer you flexibility in a caring and supportive team. The exact work pattern will be discussed at interview. There may be the possibility of Saturday work for one-off events such as Parents’ Day.
Salary: £16,917 annual salary based on the above hours and weeks of work; which is pro-rata of the full-time equivalent salary of £27,628 per annum.
* Free on-site parking
* Funded Healthcare Cash Plan
* Pension with Royal London
* Salary Extras Benefits Platform
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Free lunch is provided in working hours during term time
Pre-Appointment Checks
All candidates will undergo a Safeguarding Suitability Interview and application for an Enhanced DBS and Barred List check and be asked to provide evidence they are eligible to work in the UK, on an ongoing basis, at the shortlist stage of the selection process.
Closing date: 9:00am, Monday 24 February 2025
Application screening review: via TEAMS: Thursday 27 February 2025
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for this post, please read the Job Description which includes full details regarding the post. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines, CVs cannot be accepted in lieu of a fully completed application form. Early application is advised as Bedales reserve the right to make an appointment at any stage of the application process.
To find out more about this opportunity, candidates can contact Andrew Martin, Head of Outdoor Work, by email to amartin@bedales.org.uk.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Candidates will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Prohibition from Teaching Checks, Prohibition from Management Checks.
The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:
* Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children;
* Fostering a culture of openness, safety, equality and protection;
* Providing a safe and welcoming environment where both children and adults feel secure, able to talk and believe that they are being listened to;
* Playing a key role in prevention of harm and an equal responsibility to act on any suspicion or disclosure that may indicate a child is at risk of harm;
* When concerned about the welfare of a pupil, acting in the best interests of the pupil.
All staff have a key role to play in identifying concerns early and in providing help for children and are expected to act in accordance with the school Safeguarding & Child Protection Policies.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job candidates to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
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