Housemaster/ Housemistress

The responsibilities and tasks of the Housemaster/Housemistress (HM) are as follows:

Coordinate and appraise all House staff to ensure high standards of pastoral care is afforded to each student within the House and to support the WAISHZ way of close personal tutoring. 

Use the House based tracking system within the House and to work closely with the team of House parents and Academic staff to implement timely interventions for individual students which incorporates pastoral considerations so that it can be used by the Heads of Faculty / Grade Leaders and teachers to raise standards of academic achievement of students within the House.

Monitor communication between departments, parents, house staff and students to ensure effective and efficient pastoral care and assist in any parental consultation with teachers and tutors as required to ensure the needs of each individual student within the House is met and the delivery of pastoral care is consistently of a high standard.

In coordination with the specialist staff and other HMs contribute to the development of the student Personal Development (PD) in order to deliver a coherent and relevant PD programme to all members of the House which will help in equipping the students with the skills necessary to contribute as leaders of the future.

Liaise with other HMs to ensure consistency of pastoral care through the House system across the grades and to embed a secure transition process for all students moving from the Lower School to the Upper School, which includes an open communication of this transition process with parents.

To work closely with the School Council members to monitor and encourage positive development of leadership skills and to ensure that school events are well supported by members of the Sixth Form.

Assist House Staff and the University Guidance Counsellor in the process of student Option Choices, University advice and Leadership and Service Activities choices in coordination with the Assistant Head Academic and Director of ECAs to ensure all students within the House are making wise choices that support WAISHZ values and aims of allowing every child to excel.

Work with the House team in ensuring a consistent approach to developing House identity and to encourage student participation in both House based and school wide events.

Is responsible for the health, academic, social and pastoral welfare of each pupil in their care and will seek to encourage and inspire the members of the House not only to achieve excellence in academic and extra-curricular activities, but also to develop their social skills by living harmoniously with others. In short, s/he will help pupils to grow into confident, mature, happy and successful young people.

In coordination with the Assistant HM and the Senior Nurse, the Boarding HM is responsible for the smooth running, ethos and general discipline of the boarding house and compliance with school rules. Serious breaches of school rules must be referred to the Deputy Head Pastoral, and other senior leaders as appropriate.

Is responsible for close collaboration with the school Nurses. This includes ensuring that there are adequate opportunities for pupils to obtain primary medical and first aid attention, that ill pupils are well cared for and that referrals and transfers to hospital and the doctors run smoothly.

Working in coordination with AHM and Matron, will ensure that there is a responsible adult in the boarding house at all times. The Boarding HM is responsible for producing the duty rota and for ensuring that pupils know who is on duty at any one time.

All Housemasters / Housemistress’ will be a member of the academic team and therefore will be expected to teach lessons and take part in the sport and co-curricular activities programme to an allocation agreed with the Deputy Head Pastoral and the appropriate Head of School.

How to Apply: Applications will only be accepted on the official Wycombe Abbey School Hangzhou Application Form, which is available on the WAIS recruitment portal found on the website. The link is here: http://recruit.waisgc.com/

Further Details:  Any queries should be forwarded to the Head of HR Ms. Euroda Wan

 (careers@waishz.com).