Resident Graduate Boarding Assistant
Location: Ascot, SL5 8BQ
Salary: To be confirmed, plus accommodation while employed
Job Type: Fixed Contract - September 24 - July 25
The school is an inclusive community which puts its students at its heart. As an intentionally smaller school, they can genuinely focus on individuals, supporting and inspiring them to strive and achieve. Everyone is known and important here, and the school celebrates the achievements of every girl. Eleanor Beatrice Wyatt founded the school in 1899, to enable girls to 'see the sky'. This remains their mission today, amidst the different challenges of the Twenty-First Century.
The Role
- Assist with pupil supervision both in boarding time (including weekends) and during the school day.
- Assist the boarding team with administrative duties.
- Make a significant contribution to the organisation and delivery of the School's co-curricular programme, either as part of a timetabled lesson or in the evenings or at weekends.
- Assist in the supervision and co-ordination of weekend boarder activities.
- Encourage pupils to engage in clubs/activities and societies .
- Maintain good order, appearance and behaviour in the boarding area, at meal times and throughout the School as a whole.
- Alert the boarding team to any issues promptly.
- Provide 'on call' cover for absent colleagues in the boarding environment or in class as and when required.
- Attend Chapel and House meetings as required.
- Assist in emergency evacuations of the boarding house.
- To give support to specific academic departments, according to degree and A-Level subjects.
- To assist with university preparation lessons and give individual university advice to the Sixth Form as required.
- To escort pupils to medical appointments, airports and train stations and other individual commitments, and dealing with any associated paperwork.
Skills and Qualifications
- Qualified to degree level, desirable but not essential.
- Experience of working with young people (includes work in the voluntary sector).
- Right to work in the UK.
- Enjoy working with young people and assisting them with their personal and social development.
- Have a keen sense of humour.
- Be energetic, flexible and positive.
- Be imaginative, articulate, adaptable and keen to make a difference.
- Able to remain calm and show self-controlled under pressure.
- Act professionally and as a role model for pupils when on site.
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all pupils.
- Possess excellent ICT skills in order to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
- Be able to make a significant contribution to the School's co-curricular programme, in sport, music, drama and/or other areas likely to be of interest to young people.
To Apply
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