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Recruitment & Professional Development Lead
Salary: £45,330pa -£53,572pa
All year-round position
35 days' holiday (including bank holidays)
Discounted annual membership for New Hall Sport Club
Lunch without charge in term time
Excellent benefits & CPD
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Recruitment and Professional Development Lead to play a pivotal role in talent acquisition and retention, attracting and developing a high calibre of staff across all areas of the School. This post holder will lead the creation of an innovative recruitment strategy, including its design and delivery, to ensure that New Hall continues to be an employer of choice within the independent education sector.
New Hall School offers an exceptional working environment, set in a stunning Grade I listed building that is the former Tudor palace of Beaulieu. With a staff of around 300, New Hall is a warm, welcoming and supportive community. A new London rail station will open in 2025, at New Hall's front gate: Stratford, 26 minutes; London Liverpool Street, 34 minutes.
Application closing date: midday, Thursday 30 October 2025
JOB ID: NH0632
TO APPLY GO TO:www.newhallschool.co.uk/job-opportunities
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY ON ESSEX SCHOOL JOBS
New Hall is committed to safeguarding students. There will be an enhanced DBS check prior to appointment.
Information about the School
New Hall is a Catholic independent boarding & day school for girls and boys aged 1-18. New Hall School operates the highly successful 'diamond model', where students are educated in co-educational classes from ages 1 to 11 and at Sixth Form. However, from ages 11 to 16 they are taught in single-sex lessons. Click on one of the four diamonds below to find out more about our divisions.
The main benefits of the 'diamond model' and five years of single-sex teaching, derive from the ability to tailor pastoral and academic provision more sensitively and expertly to the needs of young people going through the physical, emotional and social upheaval of adolescence. Young teenagers are liberated from the negative peer pressure of having to perform in mixed classes. The gender stereotyping of subjects is also removed. Girls and boys follow an identical curriculum and do not learn to perceive subjects as being more suited to either girls or boys.
The Sixth Form experience at New Hall is about expanding students' horizons, both in their specialist areas of study and, more generally, in terms of their personal development.
From the moment New Hall students first travel up the mile-long, tree-lined avenue that leads to the grand façade of the former Tudor palace, they will be given individual opportunities to grow, learn, be challenged and to develop into confident young men and women. New Hall is set in an idyllic and convenient location, on the outskirts of the City of Chelmsford, Essex, just 30 minutes by train from London and within easy reach of all major London airports.
As a Catholic independent boarding & day school, at New Hall with every student we aim to educate the whole person: academically, creatively and socially, in a community which also nurtures the spiritual dimensions of human life.