Day Matron (Airlie)

Girl's Schools Association; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

Fee remission at Wycombe Abbey

CPD training and development

Free parking

Free meals

Free use of the Sports Centre

Free eye tests

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Wycombe Abbey is seeking a Day Matron to support House teams under the Housemistress and Senior Resident Matron. The role focuses on creating a warm, supportive and well-run boarding environment for girls aged 11–17 during term time.

Hours are 37.5 per week, Wednesday to Sunday, with a 3.30pm–10.30pm or 4.00pm–11.00pm schedule and a salary of £14.37 per hour (£28,022 FTE). The position includes pastoral duties and basic dispensary responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Pastoral support for pupils in a boarding environment.
• Good IT skills and ability to maintain accurate records.

Responsibilities

• Ensure House routines are followed and pupils’ wellbeing supported.
• Maintain the House Dispensary and dispense simple medication; keep medical records up to date.
• Oversee pupils' clothes, laundry and the tidiness of the House.
• Carry out administrative tasks requested by the Housemistress and assist with day-to-day running of the House.

Job description

This is an important support role within our pastoral teams, working under the direction of the Housemistress, Deputy Housemistress, and Senior Resident Matron to create a welcoming, supportive, encouraging and cheerful environment for our girls.

Boarding is the key to our continued success. The School has a culture that stimulates and inspires throughout the day, seven days a week, empowering girls to achieve their best, academically and socially. In our happy and close community, each girl is known, and cherished, as an individual. Consequently every girl's potential, whatever that might be, is explored and fulfilled.

There are two transition Houses: Junior House, for all Year 7 girls (approx. 80 girls) and the Upper Sixth House, Clarence, (approx. 95 girls). In addition, there are nine Senior Houses which each cater for approximately 50-60 girls in Years 8 to 12. The Housemistress has the overview of each girl's personal and academic development, along with the Deputy Housemistress and the House Team, and is key to the success of our boarding ethos. Working within the House Team, the Day Matron is responsible for ensuring a safe and comfortable environment in which pupils can both study and enjoy relaxation.

Reports to: Housemistress (Airlie) and Senior Resident Matron.

Contract: Permanent, term-time only contract. The first three months will be a probationary period.

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, Wednesday to Sunday, during Wycombe Abbey Term Time. Wycombe Abbey term time consists of 32 working weeks plus 5.6 weeks holiday and bank holiday pay per annum.

Work schedule:

3.30pm - 10.30pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday

4.00pm - 11.00pm Saturday

Salary: £14.37 per hour (FTE of £28,022).

As part of the House Team, you will help create a warm, homely, encouraging and welcoming atmosphere for girls aged 11-17. Responsibilities include ensuring House routines are followed, encouraging high standards of appearance and personal hygiene, running the House Dispensary and dispensing simple medication, maintaining careful medical records, overseeing the girls' clothes and laundry, helping maintain the tidiness of the House and providing pastoral support for pupils as required. You will also carry out administrative tasks requested by the Housemistress and support the smooth day-to-day running of the House.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with young people and takes pride in creating a welcoming, supportive and organised boarding environment. The successful candidate will have positive interaction with and an understanding of the needs of young people, good IT skills and the ability to build effective and supportive relationships with colleagues and pupils.

Wycombe Abbey is a world class full-boarding school for girls, located on a beautiful site in the centre of High Wycombe. With its distinctive heritage, magnificent 170-acre campus and impressive resources, the School provides an outstanding education for 650 pupils aged 11-18.

We have been at the forefront of girls' boarding education for over 125 years. Superb academic outcomes are the School's hallmark and pupils regularly secure places at the most prestigious universities across the globe. Known for its world-class education, Wycombe Abbey encourages curiosity, innovation, leadership and delight in learning among its pupils.

The School benefits from easy access to London (24 minutes to Marylebone), the Chiltern Hills and attractive towns such as Marlow, Henley-on-Thames and Beaconsfield. Heathrow is also just 20 miles away plus good transport links to other London airports.

Benefits of working at Wycombe Abbey include:

• Enrolment in the School's generous pension scheme
• Fee remission at Wycombe Abbey and selected prep schools
• Generous CPD training and development scheme
• Free parking
• Free meals
• Free use of the Sports Centre
• Free eye tests
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

We reserve the right to appoint to this position before the closing date, should we receive a high volume of suitable early applications.

Wycombe Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all applicants are required to declare all unspent convictions and conditional cautions, and any spent convictions or adult cautions that are not protected, as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

We are an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity No. 310638.

Wycombe Abbey is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.