Employment Opportunities
Frensham welcomes applications from outstanding educators and staff. We are located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on a magnificent 300-acre rural campus and in an inspirational learning and working environment, 70 minutes from Sydney and easily accessible by freeway from all parts of New South Wales and key airports.
At Frensham, we have a commitment to excellence – continually evaluating and developing our ‘next practice’ using a research-based approach. Through innovative and adaptive approaches, we develop a spirit of enquiry and a love of learning with a future focus and the capacity to discern, so that students and staff experience the adventure of experiment and the excitement of breaking new ground.
The unselfish pursuit of excellence, intellectual rigour and contribution through personal and collaborative effort are key elements of a Frensham education. We want students to be ambitious academically in an environment that inspires intellectual growth, and to thrive in terms of character, leadership and wellbeing. We remain committed to providing an educational experience where every student is known individually and where we exceed expectations in meeting the professional needs of future-oriented teachers. In our approach to improvement, we embrace the challenge to benchmark ourselves against national and global standards.
Frensham aims to be the school of choice for outstanding educators. We prioritise recruitment and retention, acknowledging that truly great schools are underpinned by outstanding teachers. We constantly seek innovative ways to deliver learning – creating a culture designed to inspire intellectual and emotional growth and moving curriculum delivery beyond traditional structures.
There is a real sense of shared responsibility for the achievement of excellence – in all that we do. Teachers work as a team of professional colleagues and students accept responsibility to be the best they can be – they know they are expected to care and be purposeful.
Frensham Teacher
Frensham is a member of the UK Boarding Schools' Association
Positions Vacant
- NEW: Sport / House Assistant / PDHPE – Graduate Position
- Frensham Teaching and House Positions for 2019
- NEW: Head of House
- NEW: House Assistant – Graduate Coach (Sport or Studies)
NEW: Sport / House Assistant / PDHPE – Graduate Position
SPORT / HOUSE ASSISTANT / PDHPE – Graduate Position
Located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on a magnificent 170-hectare rural campus, Frensham is an outward-looking and forward-thinking boarding school that provides a rigorous and personalised academic programme, in a spectacular living and learning environment. With a reputation as one of Australia’s leading independent girls’ schools, Frensham is focused on ‘next practice’ – preparing students to be skilled and willing to make a positive difference in the world, beyond school. Frensham is also a school of choice for outstanding educators, delivering best-practice teaching through professional learning, alongside leading researchers and practitioners from around the world. By prioritising the recruitment and retention of highly professional staff, Frensham acknowledges that truly great schools are underpinned by outstanding teachers.
The Role
This full-time, residential position is a great opportunity for a recent graduate with aspirations to teach, or a graduate teacher recently qualified and seeking experience of working alongside outstanding colleagues. The position would include coaching sport, a residential role in a Boarding House, and some PDHPE teaching (preferred).
This 9-month position, starting in Term 2, 2019, will provide access to Frensham’s full professional learning programme for classroom teachers and offer insights into the overall management and support of students.
Frensham provides a highly-developed residential setting where girls ‘love to board’ and where academic care and leadership development are core. Frensham Boarding Staff work collaboratively to promote residential education to students and to develop and promote emotional and physical health and happiness.
Opportunities to add to the role will be contingent upon the skills and experience of the successful applicant.
Criteria for consideration:
- Recent graduate or formal qualification in education
- The capacity to coach two or more of the team sports played in the IGSSA competition
- PDHPE teaching qualifications (preferred)
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
- Personal commitment to on-going professional learning and best-practice in residential care
- Flexibility and keenness to work as part of a professional team
- Commitment to the values and ethos of Frensham
Please note: Family or single accommodation on campus may suit.
Commencement: Term 2, 2019
Applications: Applications [addressed to the Head of Frensham, Ms Julie Gillick] must include a statement of educational philosophy, curriculum vitae, university transcripts and the contact details of three referees. Please email frensham@frensham.nsw.edu.au
This position requires the successful applicant to have a Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012, prior to employment at the School.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 20 March, 2019.
Further information: Call Ms Rose Massey, +61 2 4860 2000.
Frensham is a member of the UK Boarding Schools' Association
Frensham Teaching and House Positions for 2019
Located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on a magnificent 178 hectare rural campus, Frensham is an outward-looking and forward-thinking boarding school that provides a rigorous and personalised academic programme, in a spectacular living and learning environment. With a reputation as one of Australia’s leading independent girls’ schools, Frensham is focused on ‘next practice’ – preparing students to be skilled and willing to make a positive difference in the world, beyond school. Frensham is also a school of choice for outstanding educators, delivering best-practice teaching through professional learning, alongside leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.
By prioritising the recruitment and retention of highly professional staff, Frensham acknowledges that truly great schools are underpinned by outstanding teachers.
Please note:
For teaching positions: Family or single accommodation on campus may suit
For House positions (residential): Accommodation within or connected to a House is provided as part of the role.
SEE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR EACH POSITION IN THE TABS BELOW
Applications: Applications [addressed to the Head of Frensham, Ms Julie Gillick] must include a statement of educational philosophy, curriculum vitae, university transcripts and the contact details of three referees.
Please email applications to: frensham@frensham.nsw.edu.au
Further information: Call Ms Rose Massey +61 2 4860 2000.
This position requires the successful applicant to have a Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012, prior to employment at the School.
NEW: Head of House
HEAD OF HOUSE
This is a residential position which could combine teaching and House responsibility and is positioned at Leadership Level 1.
The position arises owing to the retirement of experienced colleagues who have created a high-functioning, welcoming House for our most experienced boarders – our senior students.
With over 250 boarders in a school population of 350 students, Frensham is a boarding school, not a school with boarders, preparing students to be skilled and willing to make a positive difference in the world, beyond School. The unselfish pursuit of excellence, intellectual rigour and contribution through personal and collaborative effort are key elements of a Frensham education.
Applications [to the Head of Frensham] must include a statement of educational philosophy, curriculum vitae, university transcripts and the contact details of three current referees. Teaching qualifications essential.
Successful applicants will have proven skills and experience in inspiring students of all abilities to set the highest standards of drive and self-management in both their pursuit of academic excellence and their efforts to demonstrate a strong sense of purpose and responsibility as contributors to the full life of the School.
Criteria for consideration:
- Formal qualification in education, essential
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
- Personal commitment to on-going professional learning and best-practice in residential care
- Flexibility and keenness to work as part of a professional team
- Commitment to the values and ethos of Frensham
Commencement: by arrangement
Accommodation within or connected to a House is provided as part of the role.
Applications: Applications [addressed to the Head of Frensham, Ms Julie Gillick] must include a statement of educational philosophy, curriculum vitae, university transcripts and the contact details of three referees.
Please email applications to: frensham@frensham.nsw.edu.au
Further information: Call Ms Rose Massey +61 2 4860 2000.
This position requires the successful applicant to have a Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012, prior to employment at the School.
NEW: House Assistant – Graduate Coach (Sport or Studies)
This is a full-time residential position which would suit a recent graduate with aspirations to teach or a graduate teacher recently qualified and seeking experience of working alongside outstanding colleagues. This position is designed to provide access for the House Assistant to the full professional learning programme for classroom teachers and offer insight into the overall management and support of students in a highly developed residential setting where girls ‘love to board’ and where academic care and leadership development are core.
Opportunities to add to the role will be contingent upon the skills and experience of the successful applicant. Keenness to lead by example in the wider life of the School is essential.
Criteria for consideration:
- Formal qualification in education
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
- Personal commitment to on-going professional learning and best-practice in residential care
- Flexibility and keenness to work as part of a professional team
- Commitment to the values and ethos of Frensham
Commencement: by arrangement
Accommodation within or connected to a House is provided as part of the role.
Applications: Applications [addressed to the Head of Frensham, Ms Julie Gillick] must include a statement of educational philosophy, curriculum vitae, university transcripts and the contact details of three referees.
Please email applications to: frensham@frensham.nsw.edu.au
Further information: Call Ms Rose Massey +61 2 4860 2000.
This position requires the successful applicant to have a Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012, prior to employment at the School.