Boarding Matron

**Job Summary**

**Brighton College is seeking to appoint a Boarding Matron**

**Reporting to**: Director of Boarding

**General Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Being the first point of contact with parents regarding any daily domestic issues affecting the House, establishing strong, trusting relationships over time;
- Managing the day-to-day routines of the House;
- In addition to organising and undertaking domestic duties, the House Matron will have a pastoral input as a ‘parent figure’ in the house, and will therefore be an important member of the House team;
- Helping to maintain discipline with College and House rules and guidelines;
- Liaising with parents, the Health Centre and Catering about medical and dietary needs;
- Dealing with issues at the start of the day, e.g. pupils late out of bed due to illness;
- Checking registration data and assisting with follow-up;
- Visiting pupils’ rooms regularly to check they are tidy and orderly, helping them develop strategies if they find this difficult;
- Being a presence in the House when academic staff are teaching and acting as the first point of contact for parents, therefore;
- Attending a weekly meeting with the Director of Boarding to share good practice, discuss the week before and plan for the week ahead;
- Managing the domestic support in House and liaising with the Catering, Cleaning, Maintenance and Grounds Departments as required;
- Making sure the pupils are regularly putting their dirty clothes in the laundry;
- Liaising with laundry staff to ensure that all bed linen and clothing is laundered and returned to houses regularly and promptly;
- Overseeing the bed change on a fortnightly basis;
- Sewing for the pupils;
- Making sure the House and rooms are clean and tidy for visiting parents and VIP’s and touring prospective pupils and parents as requested by Admissions
- Report any maintenance issues that have arisen;
- Taking students to medical, dental and other health associated appointments, to also include undertaking first aid response in first instance, training will be provided for this;
- Provide administrative support to the Housemaster/Housemistress as appropriate;
- Distributing post to the pupils;
- Collating all the information for the matches on Saturday and liaising with catering regarding any special meal requirements;
- Collating Saturday activity sign ups and information;
- Collating all the information from parents/guardians regarding weekend, exeat and holiday arrangements;
- Helping the pupils to organise and shop for House events such as the ‘At Home’, ‘Christmas Dinner’ etc;
- Keeping a key/code register for the individual room safes and ensure they are returned;
- Managing House expenses;
- Maintaining accurate labels for pupil room plates, laundry cupboards and pigeonholes;
- Liaising with Catering for boarding snacks and food rations to houses;
- Helping with the House lettings by checking rooms, reporting damage, and ensuring that the rooms are then ready for boarders to return;
- Being present on Open Days;
- Any other general duties as reasonably required.

**Person Specification**:

- Genuine interest in working in a school environment;
- Experience in similar roles would be desirable;
- Warm and helpful manner;
- Highly organised;
- Good IT skills;
- Self-motivation with a can-do, positive attitude;
- Ability to talk to pupils, parents and staff at all levels.

**Desirable Training**:
**Hours of Work**:
40 Hours per week during term time, 4 days between Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm with a 60 minute lunchbreak and Saturday 9:00am to 5:30pm with a 30 minute lunchbreak. This appointment will work term-time plus two weeks (37 weeks total).

**Remuneration**:
The salary for this role will be £28,385 per annum.

**Holidays**:
Holiday entitlement is included in the salary for this role. All holiday is to be taken outside of the working weeks.

**Benefits**:

- Complimentary lunch is provided.
- Free tickets to the College’s music, dance and drama performances.
- Job specific Learning and Development programme available to all employees.
- Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
- Brighton College provides a contributory pension scheme with matching contributions from the employer up to 9%, which all eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into within three months of commencement of employment.
- Wellbeing programme

**Wellbeing**:

- Significantly subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and Pilates classes and use of the gym and swimming pool.
- Healthy heart checks.
- Meditation sessions.
- Generous sickness policy.
- Access to books, magazines and DVDs from the College Library.

**Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities**:
**Category**

Support Staff

(Support Staff)

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Salary**

The salary for this role will be £28,385 pe