Enhance the lived experience of Christ’s College’s Christian ethos and work with other partner organisations (e.g.Wearside Youth for Christ, North East Youth for Christ, other local church leaders) to ensure a coordinated approach in the following areas:

1. Supporting students:

• Work with the school’s ethos lead to ensure that the assembly programme for primary and secondary students encourages children of all ages to think deeply about their world view;

• Provide support to tutors in leading tutor reflections, encouraging debate and discussion on the weekly assembly theme;

• Deliver assemblies at least once per half term in primary and in secondary;

• Coordinate tutor-led assemblies, supporting students in their planning, preparation and leading of assemblies and collective worship;

• Increase links with local places of worship through bringing leaders into school to talk to children through assemblies and RS lessons and also provide opportunities for children to visit local places of worship;

•Work with school leaders to support key events at Christmas and Easter;

• Support students in their character education, through providing opportunities for them to live out the school’s core virtues and serve others;

• To support the organization of retreats where appropriate including residential retreats/mission trips in accordance with ESF/CCS policies.

2. Supporting staff

• To support the weekly staff prayer meeting;

• To support staff in their planning, preparation and leading of assemblies and collective worship.

3. Supporting the wider community

• To contribute to the termly community prayers, providing opportunities for staff, parents and the wider community to join together for an act of collective worship and to pray for the school;

• To contribute to the production and distribution of the half-termly prayer newsletter;

• To provide access to resources to parents to support children’s spiritual development in the home, such as by running bookstalls at Christmas and Easter events;

• To celebrate and share the faith life of the school with the wider community;

• To signpost families to local churches and the services they provide, and to offer pastoral support to families who may request it.

Christ's College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.  Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.