Boarding House Staff
Dollar Academy
Clackmannanshire
- £9.23 - £11.53 per hour
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2021
- Apply by:
- 30 June 2021
Job overview
Our boarding community is at the very core of Dollar Academy, and it has been for over two hundred years. We are rightly proud to be the world’s oldest co-educational day and boarding school. Our Assistant Housestaff work closely with Houseparents to provide a home from home to boys and girls aged 10 to 18, with juniors and seniors mixing together.
We are currently recruiting for Assistant Housestaff and key duties include:
- Providing a responsible, supervisory adult presence in our boarding houses
- Dealing with emergencies
- Being available for boarders – both to address concerns and to engage socially
- Weekend duty – attending meals and check boarders’ attendance
- Evening duty – assisting Houseparent/House Tutor with evening routines which may include preparation of suppers, checking boarders have completed duties, supervision of bedtimes, lights out
- Checking out/in of boarders at weekends
- Arranging doctor’s/dentist’s appointments and if necessary transporting boarders to these
- appointments
- Reporting day to day repairs to Houseparents
- Supervision of cleaning staff in absence of Houseparent
- Answering telephone and passing on messages to Houseparents
- Laundry
- Repairs of boarders’ clothing
- Dispensing medicines
- Stock control of medicines, including ordering
- Stock control of cleaning materials, light bulbs, etc including ordering
Dollar's boarding is regulated by the Scottish Care Inspectorate; in accordance with their statutes, all staff involved in the delivery of care are required to be registered by a professional body such as the GTCS, the NMC or the SSSC. Applicants for the position of Assistant Housestaff should either be so registered already, or prepared to undergo the necessary training towards certification and subsequent registration. Registration must occur within 6 months of starting in post and you are further required to successfully obtain the Children and Young People Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ3) within three years of registration.
About Dollar Academy
Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 as the UK’s first co-educational day and boarding school and has been at the heart of Scotland’s educational development for 200 years. The school is the Sunday Times Scottish Independent School of the Year 2018.
Dollar has over 1250 pupils aged 5-18, of whom approximately 75 are boarders. The school’s extensive 70 acre campus is set in a landscape of extraordinary natural beauty at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Central Scotland and is within easy reach of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. Edinburgh airport is conveniently situated and can be reached in 45 minutes.
Dollar is distinguished by its excellence in pastoral care, co-curricular provision and classroom teaching.
Enjoyment of learning lies at the heart of this school and the aim is for all pupils to gain satisfaction from a real commitment to study and participation in the great range of sporting, art and cultural activities on offer.
Dollar pupils undertake internationally recognised SQA examination courses and, in a typical year, over 65% of exam results are at Grade A. Although firmly grounded in the values of Scottish education, Dollar takes a deliberately international approach and the diverse boarding community is at the heart of school life.
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