Graduate Resident in Girls Boarding

Welcome to OSH

Old Swinford Hospital is one of the country’s leading state boarding schools. A large number of the School’s students are boarders who come from a wide range of backgrounds in the UK and also from the EU and overseas. A third of our pupils are day pupils, who usually go home after lessons, unless they are involved in sport or music, CCF or DofE.

The School is now on an exciting journey to become fully co-educational by 2025. Girls joined us in September 2021 in Year 7, whilst the Sixth Form has been mixed since 2004.

OSH is calm place to work. It is inclusive, tolerant and welcoming. The atmosphere is supportive and orderly, and it is also very relaxed because for many of our pupils their school is also their home. Parents, pupils and staff are all on the same side and our pupils want to learn before going out into the wider world and making their own contribution to it.

We have recently had two very favourable Ofsted visits, one for boarding and one for curriculum. You can see these via our  We enjoy a very good academic reputation and regularly feature in the lists of the most academically successful maintained schools. We’re not about league tables, however. We pride ourselves on developing in our pupils a balance of academic achievement, character and resilience and we’ve been doing this now for nearly 360 years.

Our extensive extra-curricular programme contributes to our pupils becoming happy, healthy and interested young people, for whom sport, music, art, drama, outdoor pursuits feature in their everyday lives.

A major building programme has recently been completed which includes a large extension to an already impressive sports centre, an all-weather floodlit sports pitch, a new teaching block with a specialist arts room, a performing arts centre and a new senior boarding house.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Must have a degree in a school subject;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• An ability to work with a range of age groups;
• An ability to think on their feet and organise and lead a range of suitable activities;
• Ability to support students in their learning;
• A team player;
• Self motivated;
• Good planning and organisational skills;
• Conscientious, reliable and enthusiastic;
• Ability to work independently and to be proactive either alone or as part of a team;
• Flexible attitude to work, willingness to work unsociable hours including evenings and weekend work;
• Displays commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.

Job Specification

The Graduate Resident Tutoris responsible to a Subject Leader and the Housemaster of their appointed house with boarding duties and responsibilities.

There are both opportunities to contribute to the existing good work of a department, or to explore new directions in consultation with the Subject Leader. The Graduate Resident Tutor is expected to:

• to act as classroom instructor as and when required by the Subject Leader or a member of the SLT;
• assist in the classroom;
• organise out of hours clubs;
• help with general administrative tasks within the department;
• help with the administration and delivery of the co-curricular programme;
• offer help, support and encouragement to students;
• assist with weekend activities;
• be flexible to support any department requested by the Headmaster;
• provide some evening supervision for a department;
• any other tasks that may from time-to-time be reasonably required by the Headmaster, Subject Leader or Housemaster.

In addition, the Graduate Resident Tutor is responsible to the Housemaster of the appointed house and is expected to provide supervision as a Residential Boarding Tutor. As a Graduate Resident Tutor you are expected to live in your accommodation when the school is in session. Any individual nights when the Graduate Resident Tutor needs to be away from the accommodation must be agreed in advance with the Housemaster.

The accommodation could be single or shared and no partners will be allowed to live or stay in the accommodation.

The Graduate Resident Tutor shall assist the designated…