Relief Matron

ISC group; Oundle; Hybrid; GBP 7,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Oundle School and Laxton Junior School are seeking a Relief Matron to supervise and care for pupils in our senior boarding house. This role focuses on wellbeing, with no live-in requirement, and includes training to perform duties confidently.

The post involves interacting with pupils, assisting with medical needs, and supporting house events as part of a welcoming school community. The School has a fully staffed Health Centre; First Aid qualifications are required, with training provided if not

Qualifications

• Requires current First Aid qualification; training provided if not held.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and care for pupils, ensuring their physical, social and emotional well-being.
• Interact with pupils and assist with medical needs as required.
• Support house activities and contribute to school life.
• Work with Housemaster/Mistress to provide pastoral care.

Skills

First Aid

Job description

The Role

Working under the direction of the Housemaster/Mistress, you will supervise and provide care for the pupils, ensuring their physical, social and emotional well-being. This role is for a Relief Matron to support our senior boarding house. This is not a 'live in' role and there is no requirement within this role to be on standby overnight in House.

Relief Matrons are encouraged to attend House events and to become involved in the life of the School. You will have a lot of interaction with the pupils – this can involve anything from helping with medical needs, encouraging the pupils to tidy up after themselves, a sense of humour is a must!

The School will ensure you are fully trained and supported to enable you to perform your role with confidence and to the best of your ability. Every member of staff at Oundle School is thoroughly committed to ensuring pupils have all the pastoral support they need and this creates a wonderful atmosphere to work in.

The School has a fully staffed Health Centre; therefore, the Relief Matron will not be required to have any formal medical or nursing qualifications. However, all Relief Matrons are required to have a current First Aid qualification, which the School will provide training for if you do not hold this.

The School

Oundle and Laxton Junior Schools have long been associated with the very best of modern independent education, especially boarding. The Schools take seriously their responsibility to pupils so that they can emerge as decent, open-minded adults; ambitious about what they can go on to achieve and contribute. Over 1400 pupils are on roll at the School, of whom 840 are full boarders. Academic results are steadfastly excellent.

A team of around 800 staff, both academic and support, ensure an education of the highest standard is in place across the Schools with the efforts of the whole team focused on this fundamental aim.

Living in Oundle

We are fortunate in our location at the heart of a beautiful market town. School and town are part of the same community and our pupils take their place in this community, not isolated from it. The town has a spirited cultural life, with an annual international festival, literature festival, and frequent performances of nationally touring shows at the School’s Stahl Theatre.

The Details

This role will be 16 active hours over a 30 hour cover period. The normal hours of work are as follows:

Monday: 7:30am to 2:30pm in house

2:30pm to 4:30pm on standby

4:30pm to 7:30pm in house

7:30pm to Tuesday 7:30am on standby

7:30am to 1:30pm in house

Your working weeks will be 33 weeks per annum (Paid for 37.63 weeks which is inclusive of annual leave entitlement)

Your pro-rata salary will be £7,664 per annum (FTE £29,791 per annum)

Please note CV submissions cannot be accepted. If you have any questions about the role, please contact:

HR Department, Oundle School, The Bursary, Church Street, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4EE

Email c/o: [e-mail] or Tel: [phone]

Oundle School and Laxton Junior School are proud to be equal opportunity employers, and we welcome applications from all. We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process, and we endeavour to comply with the duties placed upon us to make reasonable adjustments as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. Should you need to request a particular adjustment to enable you to participate fully in the recruitment process, please ensure that this is made known to the HR Department.

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