House Parent

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom InvestIN Full time

**Who is InvestIN?**

InvestIN Education is a dynamic educational start-up that provides inspirational career experience programmes for school students. Founded in 2012, InvestIN's mission is to bridge the gap between school and the workplace, in order to help students choose the right career and maximise their potential.

InvestIN creates the 'ultimate career experience' through a combination of interactive simulations, site visits, seminars, networking sessions and career coaching, led by highly accomplished industry professionals. We have had over 50,000 students from 100+ countries and 4,000+ schools attend our online and in-person programmes, including our premium Summer Experiences, where students join us for 1 or 2 week immersive experiences across 15 fields and undertake exciting site visits whilst working with industry leaders and building an understanding of their dream career.

InvestIN has a growing international reach, with 45% of our students joining us from countries abroad, including China, USA, Romania and many more. Around 40% of our students stay with us in our central London accommodation, enjoying our exciting social programme and additional opportunities to network with their peers.

**Why work with us?**

InvestIN is an exciting, fast-paced and supportive environment, and working with us as part of our summer pastoral team is a fantastic opportunity to extend your experience of young people's pastoral care and safeguarding, along with building a strong foundation for more senior pastoral boarding school roles.

Our comprehensive training programme includes a variety of internal and external training, including:

- Bespoke internal Safeguarding training
- Safeguarding Young People Level 1
- FGM, Prevent, KCSIE 2023
- First Aid qualification
- Mental Health First Aid
- Youth Mental Health course
- SEND course
- Fire safety
- Safeguarding Level 5 DSL training

We also support our team throughout summer with regular check ins and staff socials.

**The Role**

Our House Parents will play an integral role in the safeguarding and pastoral well-being of the students in our care. House Parents will be responsive and reactive, acting as a first point of call for Safeguarding concerns throughout their shifts. They will manage a team of 4-6 Pastoral and Activity Leaders (PALs), each PAL caring for approximately 25 students. House Parents will be ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety and enjoyment of all students under their care.
- Key Duties:_
- Safeguarding:

- Act as a point of contact for all students across a 24-hour provision, providing support, intervention and advice relating to health, safety and wellbeing.
- Triage all concerns from Pastoral Activity Leaders, offering support and advice in instances of Safeguarding concerns, bullying or other issues
- Support on external site visits, escorting students to venues where applicable and providing Safeguarding support on key programme days
- Monitor the emergency telephone & inbox, managing the communication between InvestIN & parents regarding student's behaviour, safety and wellbeing.
- Monitor and report on the wellbeing of students in your care, including ensuring the implementation of individual risk assessments for students with additional needs
- Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Officer
- Spend one night per week on-call for emergency situations
- Maintain up-to-date records on all InvestIN's reporting platforms
- Behaviour Management:

- Oversee and have a positive impact on the overall residential experience including completing hourly dorm checks, managing student expectations and behaviour against our Behaviour Matrix, continually risk assess the safety of the facilities and communicating any hazards or risks to the University of London team.
- Conduct behaviour management meetings and facilitateing Individual Behaviour Plans with any students who have been given warnings
- Management of Pastoral Staff:

- Directly manage 4 - 6 PALs, advising on Safeguarding and other pastoral care and reporting back to the Centre Manager
- Run daily evening meetings with your PALs, facilitating any handovers or follow-ups where necessary
- Attend regular handover meetings with Centre Manager
- Cover handover periods for PALs
- Support PALs in their responsibilities of delivering InvestIN's social programme
- Other:

- Understand and act in accordance with InvestIN's ethos and cultural values (set out below)
- Adhere to InvestIN's safeguarding policy and staff/student Code of Conduct procedures and practices.
- Undertake mandatory safeguarding and child protection training and other professional development activities to ensure that you remain compliant in meeting InvestIN's duty of care in safeguarding practice. (KCSIE 2023)
- Please note this list is indicative rather than exhaustive, and you may be required to take on additional responsibilities to ensure the well-being of students in your care._
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