Boarding induction for residential tutors and supporting staff/visitors

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧 Residential tutors, supporting staff, visiting staff
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

Course outline:

Boarding House Induction for Visiting and Support Staff
Essential safeguarding awareness for those regularly working in or visiting the boarding environment.

Boarding houses are vibrant, fast-paced environments that serve as both living and learning spaces for young people. While permanent staff are fully trained in safeguarding policies and procedures, visiting professionals, support staff, and regular visitors may not always receive the same level of guidance.

This concise, practical webinar provides a clear induction into the key expectations, policies, and practices that support the safeguarding and wellbeing of boarders. It is ideal for anyone who regularly enters the boarding environment but is not part of the permanent boarding team.

Training topics will include:

• The Welcome: Signing in procedures, access to keys and keypads, and maintaining house security
• Open Door Policy: Understanding boundaries, supervision, and how to interact respectfully within the boarding setting
• Managing Disclosures: What to do if a young person shares a concern, and how to work collaboratively with the house team

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the session, participants will:

• Have increased awareness of safeguarding responsibilities when visiting a boarding house
• Understand key policies and procedures that support the safety and wellbeing of boarders
• Be confident in how to act appropriately and safely within the boarding environment
• Recognise the importance of communication with the boarding team and how to respond to any safeguarding concerns

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Speaker:

Mark Robinson, BSA Senior Consultant

Mark has a Product Design Degree from Brunel University and a PGCE. His first post in independent education was as Assistant Master at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham where he held several positions including Assistant Housemaster to a junior boy’s boarding house. After five years he moved on to Ardingly College in West Sussex as a Head of Department and Housemaster to a joint day and boarding house. Mark has been an inspector on boarding inspections, an Assistant Housemaster to a girls’ boarding house and fully involved in teaching up to ‘A‘ Level.

In 2002 Mark gave up teaching to set up Mentor Education Services Ltd, a business offering education-related consultancy services to the independent sector, initially training, interview coaching and professional development but also marketing and pre-inspection to schools both in the independent and maintained sector.

Mark was appointed as Assistant Director of Training for the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2010, where he continued offering training and consultancy to independent and state schools both in the UK and around the world. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy Head Pastoral at Collège du Léman in Switzerland, a large international boarding and day school. After gaining some further, valuable international experience, Mark returned to the UK to continue his training and consultancy in the Independent and state school sectors.