House Parent

**About The Role**:
**Contract Dates** -08/07/2025 - 11/08/2025 **OR** 18/08/2025

**The Role**

SBC House Parents play a central role in providing pastoral care to students, taking responsibility for the daily management of a boarding house and ensuring the safety and well-being of all students within it. As leaders within the boarding house, House Parents are supported by a small team of staff and work together to create a welcoming, positive, and vibrant community where students feel comfortable and supported.

House Parents must be highly responsive and adaptable, meeting both the individual and collective needs of students. This includes fostering a nurturing and inclusive environment where students can thrive socially, emotionally, and academically during their time at summer school. With students living away from home, House Parents play a vital part in ensuring a safe, structured, and enjoyable residential experience, helping students build confidence, form friendships, and make the most of their summer school journey.

**The Site**

**SBC Headington Summer School**is located in the leafy suburb of Headington in Oxford, yet it is only a mile from the very centre of the historic town. Year-round, Headington operates as an all-girls school educating around 1,000 students from 30 different nationalities. This international element means that the host school is perfectly geared toward providing a welcoming and exciting atmosphere for summer school students. The facilities are excellent, with newly decorated bright accommodation for students and staff. The school is for students aged 13-16 and the capacity is approximately 200 students a week.

**Ways we support our**House Parent**s**:

- Fully paid DBS check
- Extensive, paid, on-site training prior to student arrival
- All meals and accommodation included
- CPD and Appraisals
- Staff Wellbeing Initiative
- Access to Employee Assist Programme (EAP)
- Online safeguarding and prevent training
- Professional, fun and supportive environment

**Additional Role Specific Support**

Paid attendance of a certified First Aid Course

**_Remuneration_**: Paid weekly, one week in arrears. The weekly rate received for House Parents is £725 PLUS any accrued holiday to be paid at the end of contract)* Food and accommodation are included for all residential SBC staff.

Main Duties:

- Oversee the day to day running of a boarding house, holding overall responsibility to build a house community and to support, supervise and account for all students within it.
- Create a welcoming and inclusive residential environment, in which all students can feel comfortable and cared for.
- Working with the wider House Team to oversee the residential daily routine to include wake-up, House Meetings, House Time and Lights out.
- Lead the daily house meeting and additional house briefings, developing communication, confidence and independent social skills within the boarding community.
- Supervise students in Boarding Houses, ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour and ensuring a proactive approach regarding student wellbeing and ensuring a welcoming and positive atmosphere.
- Foster a strong house identity and ethos of equality, respect, and diversity.
- Ensure the supervision and care of sick students under the guidance of the Welfare Manager
- Ensure the timely and safe movement of students to and from houses to other areas of the summer school site.
- Proactively interact, supervise andsupport students during meal and break times.
- Maintain accurate administrative records to include house registers, activity sign-up, risk assessments, first aid & prescribed medication records and accident and incident logs.
- Be on call/overnight duty as per contract for student medical, welfare issues, and emergencies.
- If required, complete First Aid Course and serve as school first aider.
- Lead regular morning briefings & evening debriefs with House Duty staff.
- Induct staff members to the workings of the boarding house
- Attend daily House Parent meetings with managers

Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Be committed to the safeguarding and welfare of students in your care
- Attend on-site safeguarding training during induction week
- Carry out SBC’s safeguarding policy and ensuring others do the same.
- Develop positive relationships with students, earning their trust whilst maintaining proper professional boundaries,
- E.g. Not sharing personal information such as contact details or social media with students.
- Listen to students and being vigilant regarding the potential indicators of abuse.
- Report any potential concerns to the school's Designated Safeguarding Officer

**_Please see the attached Job description for a more complete list of the duties associated with the House Parent role._**

**About You**:
**SBC PERSON SPECIFICATION**

All members of staff employed by SBC will be expected to bring certain key qualities to the operation. There must be a professional interest in