Vacancies

At Henry Cavendish we are lucky to have an amazingly creative, committed and hard-working staff team. We work in a collaborative way to give children exciting and consistent opportunities throughout the school.  The needs of pupils’ lie at the heart of everything we do, supporting each and every child to be the best that they can be whilst continuing to make learning a relevant, fun and exciting experience. 

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

Henry Cavendish is strongly committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to create a welcoming, respectful and safe environment for all members of our community.  We know that more diverse teams, are stronger teams, and that the more inclusive we are, the more our staff and pupils will feel a sense of belonging and will thrive. We are committed to attracting and retaining the very best staff, ensuring that our staff body reflects the diversity of our pupils and local community. Acknowledging a lack of ethnic diversity within our staff teaching community, we particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates for this role.

If you think you might have the dedication, creativity and passion to be a part of the Henry Cavendish family, please see below for any vacancies that we currently have. Please feel free to email recruitment@henrycavendish.co.uk to ask any questions.

Executive Head Chef & Food Educator - £48,063 - £51,099

35 hours per week - All Year Round - Start Date July 2024

Our focus at Henry Cavendish is to give children the very best education and the most enjoyable, enriching learning experiences. We are a 4-form entry school across two sites in Balham, SW12 and Streatham SW16, with currently 759 children on roll and over 100 members of staff. 

We are working with Chef’s in Schools to bring our catering in-house from September 2024. This has created an exciting opportunity for an Executive Head Chef/Food Educator role to join our fantastic team. You will play a key role to lead on developing, implementing and continuously improving the culinary vision for the school. In addition, we are also opening our own Coffee Stop called Henry’s and we envisage the Executive Head Chef to eventually be supporting this hospitality service. 

We are looking for a Chef with a genuine passion for food, strong culinary skills, a creative mindset to develop inspiring dishes. Henry Cavendish is a fantastic place to work. If you are passionate about food and enjoy working with children and making a difference to their lives, we would love to hear from you!

Visits welcome - for further information, please contact Lorna Burg - Director of Business & Finance, recruitment@henrycavendish.co.uk 

Please do not send a CV, please download and complete and application form.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This posts will be subjected to enhanced DBS checks.

Barista - Henry's Coffee Stop - £8.60 - £12.50 (depending on experience)

Our focus at Henry Cavendish is to give children the very best education and the most enjoyable, enriching learning experiences. To further develop our self-generated income, we are very excited to announce that we will be opening Henry’s Coffee Stop. This will be our very own Coffee Stop, selling a range of everyone’s favourites, including expressos, lattes, cappuccino’s, as well as snacks and drinks. We envisage that we will open 7 days per week starting at 6:30am weekdays.

All profits will go straight back into the school and with the right support, we hope this venture will be a real success.  "Your coffee - their future"

If you are passionate about coffee and making a difference to children's lives, we would love to hear from you!

Visits welcome - for further information, please contact Lorna Burg - Director of Business & Finance, recruitment@henrycavendish.co.uk 

Please do not send a CV, please download and complete and application form and use the Person Specification to outline your skills and abilities for this role.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This posts will be subjected to enhanced DBS checks.

Playworkers - 3:00pm to 6:00pm

We have established a very successful extended schools service called Treetops, which has been running from September 2021. The Treetops team are crucial to the smooth running and organisation of our extended services.   We want our children to feel happy and excited about staying after school and to enjoy one of the many enrichment clubs, snacks and free play which is available from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. For further information, please download the application pack below:

Volunteering and Training Opportunities at Henry Cavendish

If you are interested in volunteering at Henry Cavendish, or arranging a work experience or teaching placement, please email the school office at office@henrycavendish.co.uk