School Chaplain

Christ's College, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4 8PG

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  11 July 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11.44 Hourly 6 hours per week, term time only

School Chaplain job summary

Enhance the lived experience of Christ’s College’s Christian ethos and work with other partner organisations (e.g.Wearside Youth for Christ, North East Youth for Christ, other local church leaders) to ensure a coordinated approach in the following areas:

1. Supporting students:

Work with the school’s ethos lead to ensure that the assembly programme for primary and secondary students encourages children of all ages to think deeply about their world view;

Provide support to tutors in leading tutor reflections, encouraging debate and discussion on the weekly assembly theme;

Deliver assemblies at least once per half term in primary and in secondary;

Coordinate tutor-led assemblies, supporting students in their planning, preparation and leading of assemblies and collective worship;

Increase links with local places of worship through bringing leaders into school to talk to children through assemblies and RS lessons and also provide opportunities for children to visit local places of worship;

Work with school leaders to support key events at Christmas and Easter;

Support students in their character education, through providing opportunities for them to live out the school’s core virtues and serve others;

To support the organization of retreats where appropriate including residential retreats/mission trips in accordance with ESF/CCS policies.

2. Supporting staff

To support the weekly staff prayer meeting;

To support staff in their planning, preparation and leading of assemblies and collective worship.

3. Supporting the wider community

To contribute to the termly community prayers, providing opportunities for staff, parents and the wider community to join together for an act of collective worship and to pray for the school;

To contribute to the production and distribution of the half-termly prayer newsletter;

To provide access to resources to parents to support children’s spiritual development in the home, such as by running bookstalls at Christmas and Easter events;

To celebrate and share the faith life of the school with the wider community;

To signpost families to local churches and the services they provide, and to offer pastoral support to families who may request it.

Christ's College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

Commitment to safeguarding

Emmanuel Schools Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

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About Christ's College

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: Through school
• School size: 698 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Christ's College website (opens in new tab)
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Christ’s College is a most attractively sized (NOR c.700) 4–16, formerly independent school now serving a very diverse and challenging community in which our family of staff and students are unusually well known to each other. Christ’s has extraordinary potential and was newly sponsored in May 2019 by Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF), a unique multi-academy trust dedicated to offering excellent education in Christian ethos schools of character for the whole community. With resources and assistance from successful neighbouring schools within ESF, we are on a journey of rapid improvement to establish Christ’s as an exceptional non-denominational Christian ethos school.

We seek an experienced leader to take the helm and deliver a profound and lasting impact. You will bring a rare combination of humility, vision and clear resolve as a catalyst for change and rapid improvement. As well as being committed to our Christian ethos, you will lead decisively and effectively, bringing wisdom and understanding – and harnessing these to underpin a culture and team equipped for continued and sustained improvement.

Christ’s College, like all schools in deprived areas, has its challenges. If you have the determination, imagination and talent to lead rapid improvement whilst nurturing our distinctive and cherished community, we want to hear from you.

There is an occupational requirement for the post-holder to be a committed and practising Christian. You will have an inclusive mind-set and will also be a high-achieving graduate and qualified teacher with substantial leadership experience that includes a track record of whole-school improvement. This will have given you deep understanding of effective and transferrable strategies in areas such as curriculum development, pedagogy, assessment and pastoral leadership, along with a proven ability to lead staff and their development, and real passion for improving lives and outcomes.

We’re a growing Trust, and – whether you already have a strong track record as a headteacher or are currently a senior leader seeking your first headship – you will be ready to take your next step and will have the skills and ability to bring your vision to life.

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