Graduate Assistant - Pastoral at St Andrew’s School

The Role

St Andrew’s Senior School is seeking to appoint Pastoral Graduate Assistant who will assist the House Parents respectively.

The Graduate Assistant key areas of responsibility will be:-

Responsibilities

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 Swimming, Adventure and Athletics.
• Participate in the provision of the adventure programme
• Support the running of the weekend activities programme
• Help with the service programme

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 candidate will need to be able to support the School's aims and Christian ethos. They will have to have a degree in education or related field.
• 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, would be desirable, but not essential. Above all, what matters is a commitment to help us provide a world-class education for our children.