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Spiritual Wellbeing Lead

Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX

This job expired on 18 August 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 August 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 22.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,425 - £28,288 per annum pro rata. Approximate actual pro rata £12,680 - £13,574 (0.47983 FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Salary: Grade 5, £26,425 - £28,288 per annum pro rata. Approximate actual pro rata £12,680 - £13,574 (0.47983 FTE)

Hours: 22.5 Hours per week, Term Time Only

About Us

Spiritual insight is central to our educational philosophy. We believe 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.

The Role

Avanti Services Ltd is seeking an exceptional candidate to join us as a Spiritual Wellbeing Lead at Avanti Fields Secondary. This is an opportunity for a gifted individual with excellent interpersonal skills to nurture the school’s spiritual ethos and support our pupils from the start of their spiritual journey.

Living and representing our values, the Lead will create a safe space for students to receive emotional and spiritual support, and deliver programmes, alongside leadership and pastoral staff. They will guide students through meaningful conversations, encouraging self-discovery and inspiring them to flourish. The role involves introducing practices such as guided meditations, breath work, reflective exercises, sharing spiritual insight in accessible, relevant ways, and leading devotional activities. The Lead will support assembly presentations, small-group dialogue, and drop-in sessions, helping students and staff to develop reflective habits and meaningful relationships.

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

School visits are welcomed and encouraged, please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.

What will you do?

• Contribute to the spiritual insight provision at the school by leading/supporting assemblies, school presentations and festival days.
• Support the spiritual and emotional development of students and staff by providing drop-in sessions.
• Develop chaplaincy so that it contributes to the provision of the Avanti Way, including its implementation and assessing its impact.
• Support the pastoral and inclusion teams in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• Lead student, staff, and parent spiritual wellbeing discussion groups.
• Develop social outreach opportunities, community projects, and parent workshops to engage the wider community 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, organisation and presentation skills
• Ability to build rapport and nurture relationships
• Ability to act upon own initiative and adapt to new situations
• Easy to approach and make themselves available for students, staff and parents
• Exceptional listening skills and empathic communication skills

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.

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:

• Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
• NEST pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
• Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

Further details about the role

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trustis 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.

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.

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About Avanti Fields School

• School type: Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1086 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Avanti Fields School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: careers@avanti.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avanti-fields-school (opens in new tab)

Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.

Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.

Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.

Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.

Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.

Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.

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