Boarding Matron
Location: Brighton
Salary: £29,123 per annum
Brighton College is seeking to appoint a Boarding Matron
Reporting to: Director of Boarding
Main purpose of the role: As Boarding Matron, you will work alongside the Housemaster / Housemistress to provide the pastoral care and supervision necessary for the welfare and safety of pupils. The successful candidate will start in August 2025.
General Duties and Responsibilities:
* Being the first point of contact with parents regarding any daily domestic issues affecting the House, establishing strong, trusting relationships over time;
* Managing the day-to-day routines of the House;
* In addition to organising and undertaking domestic duties, the House Matron will have a pastoral input as a ‘parent figure’ in the house, and will therefore be an important member of the House team;
* Helping to maintain discipline with College and House rules and guidelines;
* Liaising with parents, the Health Centre and Catering about medical and dietary needs;
* Dealing with issues at the start of the day, e.g. pupils late out of bed due to illness;
* Checking registration data and assisting with follow-up;
* Visiting pupils’ rooms regularly to check they are tidy and orderly, helping them develop strategies if they find this difficult;
* Being a presence in the House when academic staff are teaching and acting as the first point of contact for parents;
* Attending a weekly meeting with the Director of Boarding/Logistics Manager to share good practice, discuss the week before and plan for the week ahead;
* Managing the domestic support in House and liaising with the Catering, Cleaning, Maintenance and Grounds Departments as required;
* Making sure the pupils are regularly putting their dirty clothes in the laundry;
* Liaising with laundry staff to ensure that all bed linen and clothing is laundered and returned to houses regularly and promptly;
* Overseeing the bed change on a fortnightly basis;
* Sewing for the pupils;
* Making sure the House and rooms are clean and tidy for visiting parents and VIP’s and touring prospective pupils and parents as requested by Admissions;
* Report any maintenance issues that have arisen;
* Taking students to medical, dental and other health associated appointments, to also include undertaking first aid response in first instance, training will be provided for this;
* Provide administrative support to the Housemaster/Housemistress as appropriate;
* Distributing post to the pupils;
* Collating all the information for the matches on Saturday and liaising with catering regarding any special meal requirements;
* Collating Saturday activity sign ups and information;
* Collating all the information from parents/guardians regarding weekend, exeat and holiday arrangements;
* Helping the pupils to organise and shop for House events such as the ‘At Home’, ‘Christmas Dinner’ etc;
* Keeping a key/code register for the individual room safes and ensure they are returned;
* Managing House expenses;
* Maintaining accurate labels for pupil room plates, laundry cupboards and pigeonholes;
* Liaising with Catering for boarding snacks and food rations to houses;
* Helping with the House lettings by checking rooms, reporting damage, and ensuring that the rooms are then ready for boarders to return;
* Being present on Open Days;
* Any other general duties as reasonably required.
Person Specification:
The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:
* Genuine interest in working in a school environment;
* Experience in similar roles would be desirable;
* Warm and helpful manner;
* Highly organised;
* Good IT skills;
* Self-motivation with a can-do, positive attitude;
* Ability to talk to pupils, parents and staff at all levels.
Desirable
* First aid trained (if not trained the successful candidate will be given full training)
Hours of Work:
40 hours per week during term time, four days between Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm with a 60-minute lunchbreak and Saturday 9:00am to 5:30pm with a 30-minute lunchbreak. This appointment will work term-time plus two weeks (37 weeks total).
Remuneration:
The salary for this role will be £29,123 per annum.
Holidays:
Holiday entitlement is included in the salary for this role. All holiday is to be taken outside of the working weeks.
Benefits:
* Complimentary lunch is provided.
* Free tickets to the College’s music, dance and drama performances.
* Job specific Learning and Development programme available to all employees.
* Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
* Contributory pension scheme with matching contributions from the employer up to 9%, which all eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into within three months of commencement of employment.
* Employee benefit and discount platform.
Wellbeing:
* Subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and Pilates classes, meditation sessions and use of the gym and swimming pool.
* Personalised health and wellbeing consultations.
* Generous sickness policy.
* Comprehensive wellbeing package.
* Access to books, magazines and DVDs from the College Library.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Brighton College, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
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