2026 UK -House Parent

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    "description_text": "Join our winning team of global superstars in summer 2026\n Embassy Summer, under its parent company EC English, offers award winning summer vacation programmes for young people across multiple locations in the UK, Malta, Spain, South Africa & UAE.  Students learn English or Spanish whilst immersing themselves in the local culture and surroundings.  Our programmes are a combination of language classes, exciting excursions and fun-filled sporting, creative and social activities.\n From its humble beginnings in Hastings over four decades ago, Embassy Summer has today evolved into a globally recognised and trusted brand.  Our vision is to help our students succeed in a global community.  We love bringing our young learners from around the world together through a common language and building global connections.\n _________________________________________________________________________________________\n Position Summary:\n The House Parent  is responsible for the pastoral care and well-being of all the pupil’s resident in their allocated accommodation building.\n Key Responsibilities:\n Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact\n To ensure the excursions operate to the highest standards of relevant Health & Safety, safeguarding and HR practices\n To take part in onsite afternoon and evening activities as required\n To ensure students are at their activity meeting points in a timely manner\n To ensure that student behaviour and discipline is maintained in the boarding house\n Through supervision and observation, the House Parent minimises the occurrence of damage and reports occurrences to the Centre Manager\n Specific duties include:\n To be responsible for the pastoral care and well-being of all the pupils who are resident in the allocated house\n To liaise with the Group leaders and Centre Manager when issues of welfare arise\n To act as guardian for individual students' resident in the house. This may include supporting with laundry\n To assist in the activity & excursion programme, particularly working with the activity management team to organise and support evening entertainment in the houses and supporting groups on trips\n To be familiar with, and always enforce, the school rules and regulations - particularly the Welfare, Health & Safety and Fire procedures\n To monitor student behaviour and report and any problems to the Group leader and Centre Manager\n To undertake daily inspections of all rooms and to ensure damage is kept to a minimum and reported to the Centre Manager and Group leaders when found\n To ensure students are aware of all housekeeping and laundry facilities\n To assist the Centre Manager in the allocation of students to houses\n To welcome and assist in the rooming of students and Group leaders on arrival and assist with student departure procedures\n To implement a House Points system under the guidance of the Centre Manager & Activity Management team\n Attend regular meetings with the Centre Manager & Welfare Manager\n Promote and safeguard the welfare of students in line with legal, accreditation and company requirements\n Maximise student and group leader satisfaction by ensuring their experience meets or exceeds their expectations\n Play an active role in the development of student’s life skills throughout their Embassy experience\n Your working day will typically be broken down into the following shift patterns:\n Morning house supervision - room checks (approx. 30mins)\n Lunchtime house supervision - (approx. 1hr 30mins)\n Evening house supervision - activity leading from the boarding house common room\n (approx. 5hr 30mins)\n Team meetings, activity planning & support sessions where required\n Organisational Compliance:\n The job holder will be expected to operate in accordance with the company’s Code of Conduct, and any local policies and operating procedures relating to academic, welfare and safeguarding matters.\n Employees are required to cooperate fully with all arrangements in place related to Health and Safety which include implementation and compliance with control measures resultant from risk assessments and engagement with, and completion of, any relevant Health and Safety training.\n Education desired.\n Educated to Degree level or equivalent/or working towards\n Additional qualifications desired:\n Valid First Aid Certificate\n Safeguarding Level 1 and 2\n Essential criteria:\n Excellent communication and interpersonal skills\n Ability to deal with complexity and resolve difficult problems and issues varying in nature\n Ability to engage students in activities occurring inside the boarding house common rooms\n  Desirable criteria:\n Experience working with juniors\n Experience in a summer school environment or boarding school\n Personal Attributes:\n Demonstrates the ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people\n Demonstrates an approachable and upbeat demeanour\n Demonstrates emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours\n Demonstrates a positive attitude to the use of authority and maintaining discipline\n Possess a caring and compassionate nature, demonstrates authority and approachability\n   Working week:\n 6 days out of 7 (1 day off per week)\n 42 hours per week\n Remuneration:\nGross weekly rate: £600.13\n(Basic weekly rate: £535.50 + Holiday pay: £64.63 )\n Staff uniform:",
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