Indepedent Girls’ Education 11-18 Day and Boarding

Roedean seeks a Head of Domestic Services

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www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 WELCOME TO ROEDEAN

Welcome to Roedean

Roedean is an extraordinary school – the girls play at Grade 9-8, and nearly one third, 32.3%, were cricket and hockey with the sea’s blue in front of awarded Grade 9. 2020’s results, which were them and the green of the behind produced through a combination of assessment in them, the Maths and Humanities classrooms have school and teacher judgement, are available on the perhaps the best views of any in the country, and website. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that nearly which other boarding houses have been likened to a a third of last year’s leavers went on to study STEM boutique hotel? But it is not just the location, but the subjects at university, highlighting that the School strong academic focus with a genuine belief in the is bucking the ‘girls can’t do Science’ stereotype. importance of creativity and an all-round education Roedean’s trajectory is very clearly upward, and that makes Roedean unique. where it will be in a few short years is a very exciting prospect. These academic successes underline the This is an exciting time for Roedean – we are findings of our exceptional ISI Inspection report delighted that the girls consistently achieve excellent which judged Roedean to be ‘excellent in every academic results: in 2019, at A Level, nearly 55% category’ – the school is certainly ‘going places’ of all grades were A*-A, and 22.4% were A* grades; (Good Schools’ Guide), and where it will be in a few at GCSE, the majority of all grades, 51.3%, were short years is an exciting prospect.

Oliver Blond, Headmaster Executive Head of the Roedean Group of Schools

www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 THE ROLE AND DUTIES The Role HEAD OF DOMESTIC SERVICES

Reporting to the Director of Operations, the Head of Domestic Services will have direct responsibility for ensuring the effective leadership and running of the School’s domestic, transport, health and safety, lettings (non-term time residential, and weekly term time) and procurement services. The individual will ensure a high quality customer service is delivered by the team to the whole Roedean Community including pupils, parents, staff and visitors, through the provision of clean, efficient and safe facilities.

The Head of Domestic Services will oversee all aspects of the day to day operation of the School’s Domestic Services for both term time and school holidays. Working alongside the Head of Estates and the Catering Manager, the Head of Domestic Services will provide support for the catering and estates functions of the School as required. Main Duties

Domestic Services • To manage the Domestic Department and its functions Procurement Services • To line manage the Senior Housekeeper and the • To manage the Procurement Department and its Domestic Department which provides cleaning services functions for both the school and residential lettings • To line manage the Procurement Officer who co- • To continue to improve and develop the Domestic ordinates the procurement of teaching materials, Department (rated gold standard by the Continuous furniture, white goods, uniform, stationery and other Advancement Programme Inspectors on the last three general items as required visits) • To ensure timely delivery of procured items to both the • To be responsible for the School’s waste handling, staff and pupils recycling and commercial waste contracts • To obtain best prices for Domestic Services’ supplies. • To ensure effective waste management systems that are compliant with statutory requirements. External Lettings • To manage window cleaning contracts • To manage the External Lettings for the School and its • To manage the School’s pest control measures and subsidiaries services • To provide support to the Director of Sport and Head of Domestic Services for venue and facilities hire, and to Residential Accommodation be responsible for the contracts and billing for these • To manage all on-site accommodation including • To promote the facilities at the School to external lets regular checks on residential staff flats, ensuring all and the provision of a first class customer experience damage deposits are paid and audits undertaken • To lead the tender and contractual process for external • To manage all pets on-site working closely with the lettings including non-term time residential lets Director of Finance & Administration; conducting risk • To act as the primary point of contact for the non-term assessments and ensuring all aspects of the policy are time residential lets adhered to • To plan and co-ordinate the use of internal resources to • To co-ordinate the luggage arrival and departure ensure a high quality service is delivered to the non- at start and end of the school terms, and work with term time residential lets external removal firms • To monitor the non-term time residential lets to ensure • To co-ordinate the movement of residential staff on the terms of contracts and site rules are adhered to and and off-site as required, and work with external removal to provide appropriate support to ensure that this is firms. achieved

www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 THE ROLES AND DUTIES • To aim for a strong revenue return on the lettings whilst Operations taking account of use of site by the pupils and staff. • To work alongside the Head of Estates in supporting the day to day needs of the School Health and Safety (relevant training provided) • To liaise with the Head of Domestic Services, and • To manage the Health and Safety Function at the provide relevant team support and be in attendance School for school events including Speech Day, Roedean • To ensure COVID secure measurements are in place Day, Open Days, New Girls Day, and Examination • To oversee the administration of all Health and Safety requirements. activities at the School, working closely with the Head of Estates and Director of Operations to ensure that Catering Services relevant systems and processes are implemented and • To undertake regular compliance audits in the maintained, and to support the further development department, ensuring that all food safety standards and application of them within the School are met and the catering team are appropriately • To ensure that all Health and Safety rules are observed trained and that appropriate measures are taken for persistent • To support the Catering Manager as required to deliver violations a high quality service across the site, including out of • To oversee and carry out the production, monitoring hours’ functions and implementation of risk assessments as required • To be available to manage and direct the Catering • To carry out work place assessments (such as Team if the Catering Manager is unavailable workstation assessments and pregnancy risk • To be the licence holder and have responsibility for the assessments) as required use and sale of alcohol on site in line with the latest • To inform and educate employees of the possible legislation hazards in their areas, the protective control measures that have been put in place, how and when to use Transport them and the safe operational procedures that must be • To line manage the Transport Co-ordinator and take adopted responsibility for the provision of transport needs in • To provide and administrate both in-house and support of daily school operations. outsourced Health and Safety training to all staff in conjunction with the Head of Estates Housemen • To work with the School’s nominated Health and Safety • To support the Head of Estates and Senior Houseman advisors to manage Health and Safety reporting and with the provision of events organisation and tracking resources distribution in support of daily school • To update all relevant policies in line with the latest operations. legislation • To produce the Health and Safety reports for the Risk General Group (including trustee representation) and the • To attend business meetings as required Health and Safety Committee. • To undergo specific training when requested • To update all relevant policies in line with the latest Staffing and Training legislation • To manage the team and be pro-active in developing • To notify the Director of Operations immediately of the department and its processes any problems involving staff or lack of product or • To undertake appraisals of the team on an annual resources to carry out all duties and responsibilities basis and monitor performance at regular intervals effectively throughout the year • To fully endorse, understand and exercise the roles • To oversee and report overtime claims within your and responsibilities contained within the Schools teams, ensuring these are agreed in advance with Health and Safety policy which is set out in the Staff your line manager and the Director of Finance & Handbook Administration • Stay up to date with legal legislative changes • To oversee all occupational training in the School and • To carry out any reasonable task that may be maintain the training register, ensuring the School has requested by the Director of Operations or the Senior the necessary coverage in all areas. Team.

Financials • To manage the Domestic Services’ budgets - submitting them in a timely manner and ensuring the budgetary limits are not exceeded.

www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 WHY WORK AT ROEDEAN Why Work at Roedean?

At Roedean, we are seeking dedicated and from their epxeriences, and Roedean has the same enthusiastic members of staff, who are keen to wish for its staff; the school is happy to proivde priorities the girls’ well-being and happiness at all support and training to facilitate the professional times. We are looking for those who enjoy working as development if needed. All members of staff at part of a team, and who appreciate the importance Roedean enjoy strong and meaningful relationships of teh girls’ all-round experience at school. We are with the girls, characterised by mutual trust and hoping that the girls will become life-long learners, respect, and this was highlighted in our oustanding always keen to undertake new challenges and learn ISI Inspection report from March 2016.

www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 THE SCHOOL TODAY The School Today

Roedean now numbers 640 girls, nearly double the first three years are now from the UK, and, in recent figure of 6 years ago, the result of an annual growth years, many local girls have had the opportunity of 15%, and it is enjoying markedly increased to join the Sixth Form from state schools nearby, interest, both from local families and from those in benefitting from the school’s Brighthelm Awards. London who are choosing to take advantage of the weekly and flexi-boarding opportunities. There has The wider Roedean Group of Schools now educates been an enormous growth in the number of pupils over 1000 students in the local area. Our partnership from and the UK, and there are about 300 with St Mark’s Primary, in the Whitehawk estate, boarders in the school. Roedean brings together is hugely rewarding for the pupils at both schools students from over thirty-five countries around the – there are over 20 joint weekly activities, and last world and those who live very locally; these different year we fund-raised and built a Library on their site cultures and experiences add a great deal to the girls’ from scratch. Furthermore, the Roedean Academy, experience, particularly in our increasingly globalised a programme of academic enrichment which takes society, and the ISI Inspectors remarked that ‘the place every Spring term, brings together academically cultural development of pupils is excellent’, and gifted and engaged students from four local schools commented on the ‘mutual tolerance and respect’ in the maintained sector with those at Roedean, to which came from the integration between pupils challenge their academic expectations and broaden from different countries, and between the day girls their horizons. and those who board. Over 75% of the girls in the

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ROEDEAN’S ETHOS

Founded in 1885 by three sisters to provide ‘a pitch. Roedean girls excel in a range of sports, many thorough, physical, intellectual and moral’ education musicians play beyond Grade 8 level, and two girls with ‘as much liberty as is consistent with safety’, last year achieved RAD Advanced 2 in ballet – all the school has always broken the mould. Today, such activities have their own intrinsic value, but Roedean is determined to empower the girls to they also have huge benefits for the girls’ academic challenge themselves to realise their considerable endeavours. At Roedean, there can be no doubt that potential; they are given the opportunity to grow the girls’ rounded education ‘makes a considerable up at their own pace, not constrained by finite contribution to their personal development’ (ISI, expectations, and they have the freedom to develop March 2016), and it is precisely this which produces their talents and passions. Roedean’s ethos is independent and creative young women who will clearly focused on the remarkable benefits of a make their mark in the world. In the same way that holistic approach to education, in which academic Roedean encourages the girls to pursue a variety of pursuits are complemented by a wide range of interests, we expect the staff to be committed to the co-curricular activities, and the founding Lawrence busy life of this boarding school; it is wonderful when sisters would be delighted with their legacy today. staff join the orchestra or play in the staff-student With over sixty activities on offer every week, the girls sports fixtures, and the girls love it when members of enjoy sea-swimming (we have a team in the 2020 staff congratulate them on their role in the previous Cross-Channel Relay), international travel awards, night’s play or the goal they scored in the fixture at Astronomy Club, a farm on the school site, the annual the weekend. House Drama Festival, and our flood-lit all-weather

ROEDEAN’S CAMPUS AND FACILITIES

Roedean is located on a beautiful 45-acre campus, significant and sensitive redesign of almost 300 and owns a further 75 acres of land adjacent to the bedrooms, communal spaces, and private study site. It is the only school in the UK to be set within a areas for both boarding and day girls, and both Tatler National Park and on a coastline, as well as being in and the Sunday Times drew close comparisons with the boundaries of a vibrant city. The Grade II listed the accommodation in high-end hotels. With a £1½ main building and Keswick House were designed by million refurbishment of the Sixth Form facilities over the leading Victorian architect and Roedean parent, the last year, a small farm on site which opened in Sir John Simpson, who also designed the original September 2016 with sheep, chickens, and pygmy Wembley stadium. The main building incorporates goats, and a new all-weather flood-lit pitch at the the four main boarding houses, the dining rooms, heart of the School, Roedean certainly has wonderful the Library, and the teaching and administration facilities and buildings. A Library refurbishment, from spaces. Later additions include the Chapel, Science March 2021, promises to deliver outstanding study, Laboratories, the Theatre and dance studios, the research, and exhibition space within the School’s Music wing, Keswick House and Lawrence House. We original school hall, further enhancing Roedean’s also have an indoor swimming pool, a Sports Hall, academic provision. We are also at the early planning which includes a multi-gym, and numerous playing stages for a Performing Arts complex, including a fields to the front and side of the school. The School refurbishment of our 320-seater Theatre. recently completed a £10 million modernisation of the five boarding houses, which includes the

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www.roedean.co.uk | [email protected] | 01273 667657 CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION

Candidate Specification

Essential Desirable

• Experience managing teams, ideally in Domestic • First Aid Certificate. services or Catering • Knowledge and experience of an educational • Up to date knowledge of Health and Safety environment legislation • The Institution of Occupational Safety and • Commercial acumen Health (IOSH) qualification • Outstanding interpersonal skills and a strong • NEBOSH qualification record as a people manager, team builder and • A hotel, catering or general management leader qualification • Demonstrable financial skills including budgeting, • A full UK driving licence. financial control and procurement • Excellent IT skills • A flexible approach to work and willingness to work outside regular hours as the need arises • A strong command of the English language both written and verbal.

Package

Salary: depending on experience.

Hours: The post holder should be flexible in their approach to hours worked as these will be dictated by operational needs and may include weekends as required.

Note: attendance of key school events such as Open Day, Speech Day, Founders Day and Christmas Fair is compulsory.

Holidays: 22 days per annum rising to 27 after five years’ service. Leave requests are at the discretion of the line manager but it is expected that all leave will be taken during school holiday periods.

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Other benefits include • Sports and Leisure – free use of the swimming pool, fitness suite and tennis courts (subject to • Pension - Contributory pension scheme availability). Weekly yoga classes are available after work. • Remission of fees for a daughter attending the school, in line with the current policy of the • Wellbeing – Staff have access to a confidential School Council, subject to the usual standards advice and telephone support service. Staff bar and procedures for admission (currently 40% - and social events each half term. pro rata for part time staff) • ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme • Death in service benefit • Library – all staff are able to borrow books and • Dining and refreshment facilities throughout DVD’s without charge the school day whilst on duty • Free parking on site Safeguarding

The post holder’s responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom s/he is responsible, or with whom s/he comes into contact will be to adhere to and ensure compliance with the School’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Statement at all times. If in the course of carrying out the duties of the post the post holder becomes aware of any actual or potential risks to the safety or welfare of children in the School s/he must report any concerns to the School’s Designated Safeguarding Lead or, if he/she is the School’s DSL, to the Head and relevant agencies.

Roedean is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the safeguarding of children. In addition to normal pre-employment checks, this appointment will be subject to a prohibition order check, a prohibition from management check, an enhanced DBS check and a safeguarding interview. How to Apply

Applicants must complete the application pack and return it to [email protected] or via post to Louisa Butler, Roedean School, Roedean Way, , BN2 5RQ. If you have any questions about the role, please email Louisa Butler, Recruitment Manager, in the first instance - [email protected] Closing date for applications is 9am, 4 January 2021. Interviews will be in held on 11 January 2021. However, due to the need to appoint quickly we reserve the right to interview and appoint at any stage of the process. This job description may be reviewed from time to time in light of changing circumstances and if it is necessary to amend/alter this, those concerned will be consulted.

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