Staff Benefits
There are a wide range of reasons to work at Mark Rutherford School. We offer a wide range of benefits to support our staff, including:
- A strong commitment to continual professional development, with a substantial budget for whole school training and individual courses.
- A calendared internal CPD programme designed to focus on our whole school development plan.
- Free access to our up-to-date and well-resourced CPD library.
- Teacher led research groups in collaboration with University of Bedfordshire.
- Funded leadership qualifications to support career progression.
- Experienced mentors for staff at all levels.
- Wellbeing activities including yoga, football and fitness sessions. Run by staff for staff.
- Free access to BLMK mental health webinars for all staff.
- Access to the 'Bike to Work' scheme.
- Access to an annual flu vaccination.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- A designated wellbeing member of staff and a wellbeing Governor.
This list is not exhaustive and we pride ourselves on working with individual staff to provide a bespoke level of support, as required.
In our most recent staff survey:
- Over 90% said they were proud to work at our school, and;
- Over 95% said they enjoy working at our school.