Pastoral Matron at St Andrew’s School

The Role

St Andrew’s Prep School is seeking to appoint a Pastoral Matron who will assist the  house parents in ensuring the welfare of the pupils within the boarding house teams and act as a model in all areas to pupils within the boarding house. Reporting to the House parent in the respective boarding house, the Pasto-ral Matron will be  expected to take care of pupils, with particular respon-sibility for their health, mental, emotionally and general well-being. They will also be responsible for the supervision of cleanliness and organisation in the dorm. They will be expected to liaise with the House parents in mat-ters  related to health and safety. 

Person Specification

Working at St Andrew’s, Turi, is an exciting and dynamic experience. We look to recruit committed and resourceful staff, who are looking to not only develop their skills and leadership capacities, but also embrace new experiences and challenges. There are some things that are essential to working with us. The successful candi-date will need to be able to support the School's aims and Christian ethos. They will have to have attained a certificate in their high school education or its equiv-alentcoupledwithoneyearexperienceasaMatroninaboardingschool.Thesuc-cessful candidate will be expected to have a good command of the English lan-guage both spoken and written.  Beyond that we want to have staff who love working as part of a team; who are first-class communicators and who are passionate about the subjects and pupils they teach; who are creative and diligent in their planning; who are adaptable, energetic and resilient. Experience of working in a School environment, or in boarding, for a period of one year would be desirable,  Above all, what matters is a commitment to help us pro-vide a world-class education for our children