Combined Cadet Force (CCF) Officer Commanding Navy

ISC group; London Borough of Croydon; Remote; GBP 4.700 - 5.700; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Whitgift School in South Croydon invites an experienced individual to lead the CCF Navy Section on a part-time, permanent basis.

Responsibilities include day-to-day management, coordinating training days with the calendar, inspiring pupils and staff, maintaining discipline, and promoting outdoor education.

Applicants with Regular or Reserve Military experience or CCF background are welcomed; safeguarding and DBS checks apply.

Qualifikationen

• Regular or Reserve Military Experience (preferably as an Officer) or previous experience within the CCF.

Aufgaben

• Be responsible for the day to day running of the CCF Navy Section.
• Ensure that CCF Navy training days are coordinated with other co-curricular activities and entered into the school calendar.
• Inspire and motivate the pupils and staff in the Navy Section.
• Ensure the CCF is a disciplined organisation within the School, which enables students to exercise responsibility and leadership.
• Take an active role in promoting the benefits of outdoor education to students in the Navy Section.

Jobbeschreibung

Permanent, Part-Time

Salary: £5,200 plus military volunteer allowance for additional training days outside of School hours

Whitgift is a leading independent day and boarding school for boys, with approximately 1500 pupils including over one hundred boarding pupils and flexi-boarding pupils. It is set in an attractive 48-acre parkland site in South Croydon enjoying excellent links to London, Surrey and the south coast.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual to:

• Be responsible for the day to day running of the CCF Navy Section
• Ensure that CCF Navy training days are coordinated with other co-curricular activities and entered into the school calendar
• Inspire and motivate the pupils and staff in the Navy Section
• Ensure the CCF is a disciplined organisation within the School, which enables students to exercise responsibility and leadership
• Take an active role in promoting the benefits of outdoor education to students in the Navy Section.

The ideal applicant will possess Regular or Reserve Military Experience (preferably as an Officer) or have previous experience within the CCF.

We welcome applications from all sectors of our community as we aspire to attract staff that match the social and cultural diversity of our student intake.

For any queries, please contact CCF Contingent Commander Glenn Hogben [e-mail] or for general enquiries telephone Human Resources Department on 020 8688 9222 or e-mail [e-mail].

The school reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time.

Whitgift School (part of the John Whitgift Foundation) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Where applicable, applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service, online media checks. and overseas checks. It is an offence to apply for a role at the school if you know that you are barred from regulated activity with children.

All roles within the school involve contact with children and are therefore classed as regulated activity. Child protection and safeguarding are the responsibility of everyone who works or volunteers in our school. All staff must be committed to providing a safe environment for children and supporting the school’s safeguarding ethos.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are required to declare all convictions and cautions, even those that are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules, to assess suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to disclose information relevant to safeguarding prior to interview.