Vacancies

Boarding Admissions Manager

The Boarding Admissions Manager is responsible for overseeing the admissions process for boarding students, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for prospective families. This role involves recruiting, evaluating and enrolling students while fostering strong relationships with families, agents, and key stakeholders. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, a strategic mindset, and a passion for the transformative power of boarding school education. They will also be committed to upholding the Grovian values of integrity, excellence, and community.

Working Conditions:

Full-time or 4 day a week all year-round position with occasional evening and weekend responsibilities.
Flexible hours between term time and out-of-term working could be discussed.
International travel required for recruitment and networking events.
Office-based or a hybrid role but with the need for regular engagement in school activities and events.
Salary to be determined by the applicant’s experience.

The working conditions can be discussed depending on the candidate.

Application Process:

Further details in information below.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and complete Application Form.
Deadline 14^th April 2025.

Bronte House Part Time Caretaker

The Part Time Caretaker will be responsible to the Lettings, Events and Operations Manager

The role involves carrying out health & safety checks, portering, security, basic maintenance, cleaning and other general school duties:

• Ensure the security and integrity of the school buildings and grounds through locking and unlocking.
• General porter type duties including transportation across the site and to the senior school site, of furniture, equipment, laundry, meals, materials, setting up and dismantling, assemblies, stage sets etc.
• To assist with and maintain records relating to routine health & safety checks such as: Legionella, Fire alarm testing, emergency lighting, visual checks of the building etc.
• Responding to emergency situations, including but not limited to; fire alarm activations and floods.
• Escorting and assisting contractors on site.
• Emptying the internal and external bins.
• To assist the cleaning team, as required using the correct materials & equipment.
• Drive school minibus as required, for transporting pupils.
• Car parking duties at school events.
• To assist the groundsman in adverse weather conditions.
• To work across both sites as required.

Hours of Work:

Monday to Friday

2:30pm to 6:30pm

20 hours per week

All year round

Application Process:

Further details in information below.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and complete Application Form.

Woodhouse Grove School is a Real Living Wage employer and will be paying a minimum of £12.60 per hour, full time equivalent salary of £26,308.80 from 01 May 2025.

If you have any additional questions relating to the roles please email recruitment@woodhousegrove.co.uk
Attaching your CV would also be helpful.
Email your CV to recruitment@woodhousegrove.co.uk 

We ask ALL applicants to read the information below..

As the job for which you are applying involves substantial opportunity for access to children, it is important that you provide us with legally accurate answers.  Upfront disclosure of a criminal record may not debar you from appointment as we shall consider the nature of the offence, how long ago and at what age it was committed and any other relevant factors.  If you are shortlisted and invited to interview, you must declare any relevant warnings, reprimands, cautions and/or convictions by completing a self-disclosure form prior to interview. Any positive disclosure will be discussed at interview. For further information on which offenses should be disclosed please visit the following pages:

Nacro – https://www.nacro.org.uk/criminal-record-support-service/
Unlock – https://www.unlock.org.uk/contact-us/

Please note that the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are “protected” and are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account.  Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found at the Disclosure and Barring Service website www.gov.uk/dbs.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Woodhouse Grove School is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. We aim to provide quality and fairness for all job applicants and employees and not to discriminate, or to receive less favourable treatment, on grounds of age, disability, race, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant’s job qualifications, skills, experience, and abilities. Applicants or employees with questions or concerns relating to discrimination for any of the reasons listed above should contact Shiela Bano, Human Resources Manager, bano.s@woodhousegrove.co.uk.

Please inform us as soon as possible of any reasonable adjustments or accessibility requirements required to enable you to attend interview at our school.

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

Woodhouse Grove School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment by complying with the School’s Safeguarding Policy and Staff Code of Conduct at all times.  Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and The Disclosure and Barring Service.

As part of the shortlisting process, online searches on shortlisted candidates will be carried out as part of its due diligence.