Day Matron (Full-Time)

Wycombe Abbey; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

Fee remission at Wycombe Abbey

CPD training and development

Free use of the Sports Centre

Free eye tests

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Wycombe Abbey is seeking a Day Matron to join the Boarding House team for girls aged 11–17. The role involves supporting the Housemistress and Senior Resident Matron, maintaining a warm, well-organised environment and ensuring high standards of appearance and hygiene.

You will manage the House Dispensary, record keeping and assist with day-to-day running and administrative tasks to support pupils and staff. This is a term-time only, permanent position with a probationary period.

Qualifications

• Pastoral care experience desirable to support pupils aged 11–17.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for staff and pupils.
• Proficiency with basic IT tasks and record-keeping.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral support and help create a welcoming boarding environment.
• Assist with House routine, dispensary, medical records, clothing, laundry and admin tasks.

Skills

Pastoral care

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Teamwork

Job description

We are looking to appoint a Day Matron to join the team to provide support to the boarding House team, working with girls aged 11-17. 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.

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.

• 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.

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 use of the Sports Centre
• Free eye tests
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme

Closing date for applications: 20 September 2026

Interview date: 30 September 2026

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).

Wycombe Abbey is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

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