Chaplain
Avanti House Primary School, Stanmore, HA7 3JB8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 August 2026
Closing date
2 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 15 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Grade 8, £39,008 to £40,871 per annum, pro rata Approximate £12,478 to £13.074 (0.31989 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Spiritual insight is the cornerstone of our educational philosophy. We are committed to the belief that each person is a unique spiritual being with immense potential, and we reach our full potential by nurturing every aspect of ourselves—intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
Avanti chaplaincy offers the opportunity for a gifted individual with excellent leadership and interpersonal skills to help nurture the school’s ethos and support our students, staff and families on their spiritual journeys. The chaplain will support/lead assemblies, festivals, small-group dialogue, devotional activities and spiritual wellbeing sessions.
The chaplain will share spiritual insight in accessible, relevant ways. They will guide and helps others to flourish through meaningful conversation and self-discovery. The role also involves practices such as guided meditations, breath work, reflective exercises, creative and nature-led activities, all within a spiritual context.
What will you do?
- Contribute to the spiritual insight provision at school by leading/supporting assemblies and festival activities.
- Lead student, staff, and parent spiritual insight discussion groups and workshops.
- Support the pastoral care of children with spiritual wellbeing sessions for small groups and 1-1.
- Develop chaplaincy in the school, including implementation and assessment of impact.
- Develop social outreach and community projects, and parent workshops so that the Avanti Way can be nurtured in all aspects of students’ lives.
For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description.
What are we looking for?
- Excellent communication, organisational, rapport-building skills
- Engaging presentation skills
- Strong leadership ability to be proactive
- Ability to adapt and integrate as part of a team
- A reflective, spiritual outlook and personal dedication to spiritual practices
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- A strong vision of Educational Excellence, Character Formation and Spiritual Insight
- Great opportunities for professional development
- O2 discounts
- NUS Card
- Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Access to multiple well-being programmes
- Cycle to work Schemes
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti House Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 419 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti House Primary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
At Avanti House, education is about developing the whole child and providing opportunities for them to flourish within and beyond the classroom. It is the aim of the whole school team to help each child to become a successful learner and well-rounded individual who is ready to take the next steps in their journey. As perfectly described by a spiritual saint called Radhanath Swami, “If we actually want to make the world a better place and give joy and fulfilment to our children, empowering them to give the same for others, we have to build the foundation of our education on human values.”
Avanti House is a very happy school where the behaviour and attitudes to learning by all pupils are exceptional. When Ofsted inspectors visited the school in December 2019, they reported: “Leaders and all staff place a strong emphasis on promoting pupils’’ character and their personal development. These are key features of the ‘Avanti Way’ and the school’s aims. Pupils develop a strong sense of self-belief and an understanding of respect and tolerance. Older pupils told us all about different types of family, for example, and we saw pupils discussing suffering in the world and what they could do to put an end to it.”
Our unique school community is vibrant and dedicated. All staff and parents come together to secure the very best outcomes for the pupils within their care. The relentless commitment and high expectations staff hold for our pupils is truly remarkable.
Arranging a visit to Avanti House Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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