Job Description

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

4 May 2025

Job overview

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We are a vibrant and inclusive educational institution dedicated to providing a safe and inspiring environment for pupils to learn and grow. To support our mission, we are seeking a dedicated and experienced Duty Manager - Sport and Lettings to support the smooth day-to-day operation of our Recreation Centre, including the swimming pool, gym, sports hall, and associated lettings.


This role is central to ensuring our facilities are safe, clean, and welcoming for pupils, staff, and the wider community. The successful candidate will take responsibility for supervising and managing the facilities during allocated shifts, ensuring all areas are appropriately set up, operational, and compliant with school policies. They will play a key role in upholding safeguarding and health and safety standards, maintaining operational procedures, and delivering a high level of customer service to all users.


This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a professional and committed team in a well-resourced and dynamic school setting, where your work will contribute directly to the wellbeing and development of young people.

Closing Date:

Sunday 4th May 2025

Interview Date:

Tuesday 13th May 2025

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.


Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust.

About

Bedford School

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Bedford School

De Parys Avenue, Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK40 2TU
United Kingdom

+44 1234 362200

Awarded five stars in Fortune's World's Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named 'Independent Boys School of the Year 2021', Bedford School is lauded for "its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students' individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men."



Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply 'be' together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.



Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and BTEC alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages - there is no 'typical' Bedford student.



Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.



Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.



Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.



Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of 'sport for all' and we regularly field E and F teams.



We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.