Residential Boarding House Matron
Westbourne House School
West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive + accommodation
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 30 June 2022
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and friendly person to join our vibrant residential boarding team. Would you relish the opportunity of working with young children (aged 9–13) in our Main Boarding House? If you have experience of working as a matron, nurse, social care worker, or similar profession, this position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the care of our pupils. The successful candidate will have a warm and welcoming presence in the boarding house and be a helpful and caring team member who would enjoy working and living in our School community.
We are looking for someone with a very positive, “can do”, practical approach to supporting our full, weekly and flexi boarders throughout the weekdays and at weekends. Numbers vary from 10 to 70 boarders. You will need to be fit and agile for laundry and bed-changing duties.
You will need to be practical, patient and sensitive, as well as an excellent communicator and a team player. Previous experience of working with young people would be an advantage but not essential.
Accommodation will be provided all year round and the term-time-only position will commence in September 2022.
Westbourne House creates a safe, supportive and fun boarding environment for children to help them develop into caring, self-reliant and confident individuals.
We can offer:
- A strong, supportive staff team
- Competitive salary
- Pension scheme
- Use of the School’s facilities
- Employee Assistance Programme
Please apply by completing the application form on our website via the Apply button. CVs may be attached, but not in place of the application form. Please return completed applications to Solveig Store at hr@westbournehouse.org
We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible.
We reserve the right to interview and offer to a strong candidate prior to closing the advert. For this reason, early applications are encouraged.
Westbourne House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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About Westbourne House School
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- Westbourne House School
- Coach Road, Shopwyke, Chichester
- West Sussex
- PO20 2BH
- United Kingdom
Westbourne House is situated just to the east of Chichester in beautiful grounds of over 100 acres. There are approximately 380 boys and girls, aged 2½ -13. Most children go on to major Public Schools across the South.
The school enjoys outstanding facilities. Teaching is extremely well resourced with excellent teaching rooms, the majority equipped with interactive whiteboards; there are also sets of laptops which can be booked for class-based work. There are rooms for Art, Ceramics, ICT, Design Technology and Food Technology, a separate Science block and Music School, as well as a modern, 300 seat theatre/assembly hall. The School also has a large (30 acre) lake on the north boundary for kayaking.
Academic standards are high, with consistently outstanding Common Entrance results together with an excellent scholarship record; last year no fewer than 36 awards and scholarships to senior schools were won across a range of disciplines, totalling 140 over the last five years.
Westbourne House uses the High Performance Learning philosophy to guide all pupils in becoming good learners. The school believes that all pupils have the potential to perform at the highest level regardless of their current performance level. The Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics (ACPs) and Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs) of HPL are the “thinking” and “behaviour” characteristic and these are delivered specifically and systematically throughout the curriculum.
The Music and Drama departments also excel consistently: all children are involved in school productions, a large number are members of school choirs and there are regular concerts.
Saturday school consists of sports matches, as well as optional enrichment activities, such as kayaking and coding.
There is a wide variety of sport on offer, and a large number of teams represent the school most Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. As well as extensive playing fields, there is a 25-metre swimming pool, dance studio, sports hall, squash courts and a full-sized astro-turf pitch.
There are around 100 boarders, many of whom board for two or three nights in one of seven houses on the school grounds. The school offers full time boarding allowing the children to further enjoy the beautiful facilities and grounds the school has to offer.
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