Head of Junior School
North London Collegiate School
Harrow
- Salary:
- A competitive and negotiated remuneration package is available with a salary commensurate with the seniority of the post and the experience of the successful candidate.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January or April 2025
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2024
Job overview
HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL
Required for January or April 2025
We are looking for the next Head of our Junior School to shape a new chapter for the Junior School, aligned to our whole school ethos and vision. You will be a member of the school’s leadership team and enjoy collegiate support as well as significant autonomy in the day-to-day running of the Junior School.
The Junior School is oversubscribed, and benefits from an experienced and hardworking team of colleagues and a supportive parent community. Pupils are inquisitive, bright and full of energy and ideas. It is a delight to spend time with them.
This role would suit a serving Junior or Prep Head keen to lead one of the foremost Junior Schools in the UK, or an experienced Deputy Head.
We can offer:
· A positive working environment within an extremely well-resourced school where excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
· A highly competitive salary structure based on, but substantially above, national scales. This role will be paid according to experience and qualifications.
· The opportunity to develop professionally; improve and extend your knowledge; develop skills and experience; share outstanding and innovative practice; and contribute to the development of a challenging and supportive learning environment in and outside of the classroom.
· A strong supportive leadership team that prioritises student and staff health and well-being.
· Other benefits include membership of the TPS, free lunches during term time, season ticket loan, Employee Assistant Programme, free use of the swimming pool and fitness suite, Cycle to Work and Eye Care Schemes, and fee remission.
How to make an application:
NLCS have engaged the services of Minerva to support with this appointment. Please visit: https://www.minervasearch.com/current-opportunities/head-of-junior-school-north-london-collegiate-school/ for more information and how to apply.
NLCS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all members of all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must declare any criminal convictions as the post is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Appointments will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service and references from previous employers. We are an Equal Opportunities employer.
Website: www.nlcs.org.uk
Attached documents
About North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School is an independent all-through day school for girls, based in Edgware. Its motto translates from Latin as "in the hope of labour". There are 1,065 aged 4-18 on the school roll.
The school was founded by Frances Mary Buss at the family home in Camden in 1850. The current site was acquired in 1929, and the school was fully relocated in 1940. The main site is a country house built in the eighteenth century. Since 2011, North London Collegiate School has had a franchise school in South Korea.
Headmistress
Mrs Vicky Bingham
Values and vision
The school is proud of its tradition of producing independent and pioneering young women with the drive and confidence to make the most of opportunities and a difference in the world. North London Collegiate School combines academic excellence with a vibrant extracurricular life, an international outlook, excellent facilities and a warm community.
Pupils are shaped not just by the academic excellence of the teaching but by the spectacular environment in which they learn. As well as the beauty of the Old House, pupils and staff also experience and learn in the school’s expansive grounds and modern Performing Arts Centre.
ISI report
“The school successfully fulfils its aims to provide an ambitious academic education and to enable all pupils to recognise academic excellence. Pupils benefit from a broad and challenging curriculum and an outstanding range of extra-curricular activities, among which many are related to academic study.”
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