Old Swinford Hospital School
Volunteers for the Combined Cadet Force (CCF)
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About the Role
We require volunteers to be part of a team to lead, guide, inspire and encourage young people within the CCF at School.
About Old Swinford Hospital
Old Swinford Hospital is one of the country’s leading state boarding schools. The majority 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 September 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.
We have recently had two very favourable Ofsted visits, one for boarding and one for curriculum. You can see these via our website www.oshsch.com. 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.
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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.
About CCF
Cadets have been parading at OSH since before the First World War. Each Thursday afternoon, some 60 cadets join our army and RAF instructors who, under the guidance of the SSI and CC, guide them through a journey that enriches and brings great benefit to their character and overall development. The CCF operates out of its own ‘hut’ with store room and armoury, whilst a separate firing range is on site.
Beyond the weekly parade and its accompanying activities, residential weekends, shooting competitions and the annual camp at Nescliffe complement the CCF experience at OSH.
Each year, the CCF is represented at Stourbridge’s Remembrance Sunday parade and service, whilst the CCF holds its own annual memorial to OSH pupils who did not return from the World Wars as well as those who died in the Gulf and Afghanistan in more recent times.
All of this means that the CCF is an integral part of life at OSH.
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Person Specification
- Enthusiastic
- Reliable and committed
- Ability to motivate and encourage students
- Organised
- A team player
- Good communication skills
- Displays commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people
Job Specification
- To help CCF Contingent Commander and School Staff Instructor for CCF to deliver the CCF programmes in School
- Assist with the training programmes for cadets
- Act as a role model for military standards of discipline and commitment within the School community
- To comply with the administrative, operational and health and safety procedures
- To record participants, progress through the CCF programme
- To complete all necessary training
- Prepare for and participate in Annual Camp
- Accompany the students on CCF activities
- Ensure compliance with the safeguarding of children procedures and policies
Equal Opportunities
Old Swinford Services Ltd welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
Suitability to Work with Children
Old Swinford Services Ltd is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants are required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
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