Location: Royal High School Bath
Required from: September 2022
Contract term: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Salary: Regional Grade 2- £18,534- £20,000
Accommodation provided
The role: Resident Matron
We are seeking to appoint a full time Resident Boarding Matron from September 2022 to work as part of the residential team to provide pastoral support and frontline medical care to the boarders, to undertake general housekeeping duties, liaise with catering department and to carry out some duties within the school.
The post is residential, the Matron is required to be onsite overnight on call apart from on days off, for which a flat within the boarding house is provided.
We are looking for someone keen to make an impact on the lives of students at the School. You will be in the privileged position of supporting our students pastorally here at RHS, particularly within Boarding and ensuring they integrate smoothly and lead a full and active RHS life will be one of your responsibilities. You will need to be full of encouragement and a genuine care for the girls in our community so that they flourish. Experience within boarding schools will be useful, but not essential.
About the School:
We are proud to be part of the GDST (Girls Day School Trust), a group of 25 schools including two Academies, who together are pioneers and shapers in the future of girls’ education. Our values focus on putting girls first, encouraging all in our community to be forward thinking and fearless.
Royal High School Bath is unique in the GDST family as being the only school with boarding. Our beautifully renovated boarding houses in the heart of the School attract international girls from a wide range of countries (currently 17) as well as UK boarders.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
– Competitive salaries and pay progression
– Access to extensive professional development opportunities
– Training grants for qualifications
– Generous pension schemes
– Free life assurance benefit
– A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
– Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
– A Cycle to Work scheme
– Competitive terms and conditions of employment
Deadline for applications 4 April 2022- 9am
Interviews will take place 6 April 2022
Please apply via our website: https://www.royalhighbath.gdst.net/our-school/work-for-us
The GDST are 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 and Barring Service.
