Relief Matron
Oundle School
Northamptonshire
- £10.55 per hour
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus £739 per annum for the periods on standby
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2021 ideally
- Apply by:
- 2 February 2021
Job overview
We have opportunities for Relief Matrons to provide a seamless service to the pupils in the boarding House when the resident Matron is not present, ideally to start April 2021.
THE ROLE
Working under the direction of the Housemaster/mistress, you will supervise and provide care for the pupils, ensuring their physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
Relief Matrons are encouraged to attend House events and to become involved in the life of the School. You will have a lot of interaction with the pupils – this can involve anything from helping with medical needs, encouraging the pupils to tidy up after themselves, or just gently ribbing them (or being ribbed) about funny things that happen. A sense of humour is a must!
The School will ensure you are fully trained and supported to enable you to perform your role with confidence and to the best of your ability. Every member of staff at Oundle School is thoroughly committed to ensuring pupils have all the pastoral support they need and this creates a wonderful atmosphere to work in.
The School has a fully staffed Health Centre; therefore, the Relief Matron will not be required to have any formal medical or nursing qualifications. However, all Relief Matrons are required to have a current First Aid qualification, which the School will provide training for if you do not hold this.
THE DETAILS
Generally, Relief Matrons provide cover during the Matron’s 30 hours off each week during Term time (33 occasions each academic year), starting at 7.30am. Hours of work vary depending on the needs of the particular House, but are generally between 11 and 16 active hours working in the boarding House with the remaining hours on standby.
All Relief Matrons work Term time, which is 33 weeks per annum (paid for 36.97 weeks, to include entitlement to holiday pay).
Salary is based on £10.55 per hour for each hour on active duty in house, plus £739 per annum for the periods on standby.
THE REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must have experience of caring for children and young adults, be calm under pressure, and be able to work as part of a team. You will be required to have a driving licence and use of your own car.
In general, the Relief Matron is expected to be available to deal with both routine matters and emergencies as they arise.
Relief Matrons are expected to attend meals and conduct surgeries that coincide with their working hours. During the remainder of the day, Relief Matrons are free to organise their workload and rest breaks accordingly; they are expected to stay within mobile phone range and be able to attend an “incident” ideally within 5 minutes (and within 20 minutes at the outside).
TO APPLY
Go to www.oundleschool.org.uk/vacancies via the Apply button for full details and an application form. Complete an application form and return it before the closing date of Tuesday 2 February (8.30am). On your application form (suitability section), please indicate which days of the week you are available to work, and whether you would be residential overnight (a requirement for one House only).
First interviews will be held w/c 8 February. Second interview dates are yet to be confirmed.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Attached documents
About Oundle School
Location and introduction
Oundle School is one of Britain’s leading co-educational boarding and day schools, situated in the charming market town of Oundle, Northamptonshire. London is just an hour away by train via Peterborough and Cambridge is within easy access. Its buildings, dating from the 17th to the 21st centuries, are dispersed throughout the town, giving the school a unique and distinctive character. For over 460 years, the School and town have been part of the same community and both Oundelians and staff take their place within this community, not isolated from it.
Oundle has long been associated with the very best of modern independent education, especially boarding. As one of the largest boarding schools in the UK, Oundle ensures great breadth of extra and co-curricular opportunity with few limits on subject choice. It has 1,100 pupils on roll from age 11 to 18, with 860 boarders and 250 day pupils. The school attracts pupils from over 120 feeder schools across all corners of the UK and around 20% of pupils come from over 30 countries worldwide, ensuring a global outlook at the heart of a very British boarding education.
Academic
Oundle has a strong academic reputation; Oundelians have a natural love of learning and are ambitious in their approach to opportunity and the life of the intellectual mind. Average grades at A level are 20% A* and 57% A*A. At IGCSE/GCSE, over half of all pupils achieve 8s and 9s. Around 20 Oundelians receive Oxbridge offers each year and while most go on to Russell Group Universities, increasing numbers of pupils look across the Atlantic for higher education with a more global approach. Seven timetabled languages, 28 A level options, 26 IGCSE/GCSE subject options and over 40 different academic societies are offered. Oundle’s non-examined academic curriculum is particularly broad and challenging. Through the support of talented and dedicated teachers, pupils have ample opportunities to explore areas of personal intellectual interest, therefore succeeding as independent learners, capable of thinking, questioning and debating.
Pastoral
Oundle is a seven-day-a-week boarding school. It has a full boarding ethos and this is one of its greatest strengths for both boarders and day pupils. It is a big School with a big heart and whilst its size may seem daunting initially, it is carefully mitigated by the secure, smaller havens of the Houses and tutor groups. Effective care and support for pupils is ingrained in every aspect of pupils’ School lives. From the carefully structured House tutorial system to the informal, yet highly intuitive relationships that pupils form with supportive staff, Oundelians always have someone to turn to and someone to look out for them.
Co-curriculum
Oundle has a well-earned reputation for musical, theatrical and sporting excellence as part of an extraordinarily rich co-curricular programme. Based on the three strands of leadership, adventure and service, the programme provides pupils with opportunities to engage with the world outside School. Oundle takes seriously its responsibility to its pupils so that they can emerge as decent, open-minded adults: ambitious about what they can go on to achieve and contribute, but never arrogant.
Head
Sarah Kerr-Dineen
Vision and Values
Oundle sees its role not simply to steer pupils successfully to eighteen, or even to the point at which they join the world of work, but rather to support them in achieving the qualifications, skills, values and attitudes that will sustain them through what it hopes will be long, happy and productive lives. At the heart of the School’s Strategic Plan lie five core values: pupils, staff, opportunities, communities and quality. In the Head’s own words: “Pupils are at the heart of everything we do and every decision we make. We value the staff who contribute to the lives of our pupils in whatever capacity. We value the opportunities that the School makes available both to pupils and to staff, as well as the various communities of which we form part, not least former pupils and parents. We also recognise the value of seeking the highest quality in all that we do.”
School History
Oundle traces its history back to 1556, when Sir William Laxton, Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers endowed a ‘Free Grammar School’ in Oundle, where he had been educated at the original Gild School founded in 1506. At the beginning of the 20th century, Oundle was put firmly on the map of leading English public schools by its most famous headmaster, F W Sanderson, who established Oundle’s reputation as one of the great science and engineering schools, a reputation still renowned today. Following a series of major capital developments including the Cripps Library and the Adamson Centre for Modern Languages, SciTec was completed in 2016, uniting Science, Mathematics, Design, Technology and Engineering (STEM) both physically and philosophically. The resulting STEM facility, developed with the support of Imperial College London and Swansea University Engineering department, sets the benchmark standard for science and engineering facilities across the UK.
The most recent development focus at Oundle has been on resourcing a modern, thoughtful vision of sport. A new Sports Centre housing a 50m pool, an 8 court sports hall, a fitness suite and multiple studios opens September 2020 alongside the existing School sports centre. The new facilities, which include a new athletics track, tennis courts, AstroTurfs, cricket nets and netball courts, will all support sport at a top competitive level whilst catering for a multitude of sports and leisure activities at all levels.
Within the Corporation of Oundle School is Laxton Junior School, a day school for 260 children aged 4 to 11.
Independent Schools Inspectorate
“Oundle School is highly successful in meeting its aims and pupils’ overall achievement is excellent, as demonstrated by their high levels of performance in public examinations and lessons, and within extra-curricular activities… The curriculum which underpins pupils’ learning is broad, well balanced and offers choice and challenge at all stages.”
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