St Andrew’s Senior School is seeking to appoint two Pastoral Graduate Assistant and two Sports Graduate Assistant (with particular expertise in basketball and/or Hockey) who will assist the House Parents and Director of Sports respectively.
The overarching responsibilities of the Pastoral Graduate Assistant include:
- Supporting the School's Christian ethos
- Enhancing the pastoral care of students
- Reinforcing co-curricular and sporting provision (where necessary)
- Administrative duties (e.g. DDT, Breakfast/Lunch, Walkabouts, service, etc
Duties
The principal duties of the Graduate Assistant are to:
Ethos
- Uphold the School's Christian ethos in both principle and practice, joining staff and pupils in prayer where appropriate
- Support Chaplaincy events
Pastoral Care
- Work within one of the boarding house teams, including pastoral duties in he evening and weekends
- Act as a role model in all areas to pupils within the boarding house around the school.
- Work with Houseparents' to support individual pupils as needs arise
- Attend a weekly Boarding House team meeting
- Assist with registration of students
- To support the Houseparent with the admin tasks that are needed for boarding
Academic Support
- Act as a tutor for a group of pupils if required
- Cover academic lessons when teachers are absent
- To work within a department of choice
Co-Curricular and Sport
- Assist in the running of Co-curricular/sport
- Assist in instructing, teaching and coaching student games during P.E lessons, practice and competition
- Must have experience and understanding of Hockey and/or Basketball.
- It would be an added advantage for the candidate to also have skills and experience in Adventure and Creative Arts (Drama, Design and Technology, Art and Music)
- Participate in the provision of the adventure programme
- Support the running of the weekend activities programme
- Help with the service programme