Summer School: Senior House Parent (Residential)

INVESTIN EDUCATION; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

SENIOR HOUSE PARENT (RESIDENTIAL)

Who is InvestIN?

InvestIN Education is a dynamic educational start-up that provides inspirational career experience programmes for school students. Founded in 2012, InvestIN’s mission is to bridge the gap between school and the workplace, to help students choose the right career and maximise their potential.

InvestIN creates the ‘ultimate career experience’ through a combination of interactive simulations, site visits, seminars, networking sessions and career coaching, led by highly accomplished industry professionals. We have had over 50,000 students from 100+ countries and 4,000+ schools attend our online and in-person programmes, including our premium Summer Experiences, where students join us for 1- or 2-week immersive experiences across 15 fields and undertake exciting site visits whilst working with industry leaders and building an understanding of their dream career.

InvestIN has a growing international reach, with over 50% of our students joining us from countries abroad, including China, USA, Romania and many more. Around 40% of our students stay with us in our central London accommodation, enjoying our exciting social programme and additional opportunities to network with their peers.

Role Description:

Our Senior House Parent (SHP) will be supporting with Safeguarding Queries and ensuring a smooth operation. They will manage a team of 2-3 Senior Pastoral & Activity Leaders (SPAL). Senior House Parent’s will be ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety and enjoyment of all students under their care.

Key Duties

Site Management:

• Support the overall management of one of our Halls of Residence (UCL Garden Halls or College Halls).
• Act as the lead in the absence of the Centre Manager, ensuring continuity of operations and support for staff and residents. Help ensure the smooth and safe running of the centre.

Staff Management:

• Directly manage 4-6 SPALS, providing operational support and advising on safeguarding and other pastoral care. Acting as a triage point for SPALs and PALs escalating up any relevant issues to the Centre Manager or DSL. Run daily evening meetings with the centre team, facilitating any updates, handovers or follow-ups where necessary. Attend regular handover meetings with Centre Manager. Support SPALs in their responsibilities of line managing PALs and adhoc support on InvestIN’s evening social programme.

Safeguarding & Pastoral Support:

• Act as a point of contact for all students across a 24-hour provision, providing support, intervention and advice relating to health, safety and wellbeing. Triage all concerns from junior centre staff, offering support and advice in instances of Safeguarding concerns, bullying or other issues. Support on external site visits, escorting students to venues where applicable and providing safeguarding support on key programme days. Manage the communication between InvestIN & parents regarding student’s behaviour, safety and wellbeing. Monitor and report on the wellbeing of students in your care, including ensuring the implementation of individual risk assessments for students with additional needs and providing regular checks on unwell students. Spend one night per week on-call for emergency situations. Maintain up-to-date records on all InvestIN’s reporting platforms.

Behaviour Management:

• Oversee and have a positive impact on the overall residential experience including completing regular dorm checks, managing student expectations and behaviour against our Behaviour Matrix, continually risk assess the safety of the facilities and communicating any hazards or risks to the on-site team, escalating to the Centre Manager or Residential Manager where necessary. Act as point of contact for escalation of behaviour management issues. Conduct behaviour management meetings and ensuring that warnings and behaviour plans have been documented and actioned by junior centre staff and the programme team.

Other:

• Understand and act in accordance with InvestIN’s ethos and cultural values (set out below). Adhere to InvestIN’s safeguarding policy and staff/student Code of Conduct procedures and practices. Undertake mandatory safeguarding and child protection training and other professional development activities to ensure that you remain compliant in meeting InvestIN’s duty of care in safeguarding practice. (KCSIE 2024).

Details of the role:

Location: Bloomsbury, Central London

Hours: Up to 55 hours

Salary: £750 per week (plus meals and accommodation)

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Available Contract Dates: 30^th June – 30^th August (9 weeks), 30^th June – 9^th August (6 weeks), 21^st July – 9^th August (3 weeks)

Shift Times: A rotating shift pattern of - 07:30am – 17:00pm (early) and 14:00pm-23:30pm (late)

The above working arrangement is subject to change.

Application close date: 30th April 2025

Benefits:

• Invest in your career: Benefit from up to 2 weeks of paid training to equip you for success.
• Prioritise your well-being: Access 24/7 support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Join a fun and supportive team: Enjoy company socials as well as celebrate achievements together at our End of Summer Party.

Application Process:

Online Interview: Exploring your skills, experience and how you align with the values and objectives of the programme.

Assessment Centre: Dates for the Assessment Centre will be provided during the interview stage. This will involve interactive tasks and activities designed to assess your suitability for the role in a practical, team-oriented setting.

Person Specification:

You are an experienced and organised professional with a genuine passion for working with and encouraging young people. You are enthusiastic, committed, and passionate about young people's health, wellbeing and safety and believe in strong fair and clear boundaries. You have a genuine interest and skill in safeguarding young people and understand and can connect to today’s young communities and the issues they may face.

Experience:

• Experience of working in pastoral care for young people (e.g. working in schools, childcare, youth work, after-school clubs, paediatric healthcare) (essential)
• Experience of Safeguarding young people (essential)
• Experience of working in fast-paced environments (essential)
• Experience in leading in operationally complex environments (essential)
• Experience in managing teams (desirable)
• Experience of working in a residential boarding setting (desirable)
• Experience of work with 15-18 year olds (desirable)
• Experience of supporting SEND students (desirable)

You have, and can demonstrate, the following skills and interests:

• Excellent reactive prioritization and problem-solving skills
• Calm approach
• Proactive and high energy
• Resilient and positive attitude
• Able to respond quickly and accurately in an emergency
• Innovative and solution-orientated
• Support inclusivity and diversity, being kind and supportive in your approach
• Have a deep understanding of what constitutes a concern and have the ability to act appropriately to safeguard and protect
• Be reliable, punctual and an open communicator
• Be able to adapt and adjust to the changing needs of the live events industry within a safeguarding capacity
• A deeply-entrenched sense of personal pride in your work, and a commitment to giving students a 5* experience in every interaction
• A deeply-invested belief in InvestIN’s sense of purpose and our programmes.
• You feel a sense of passion and belonging when you read our cultural values (set out below).

Offers will be subject to successful pre-employment checks, including right to work, DBS, and training completion.

InvestIN’s Cultural Values:

Experience is Truth: We believe that to learn is to experience. Our mission is to deliver professional experiences to young people that they would otherwise consider a far-flung fantasy. This ‘experiential learning’ appeals to all the senses and requires live in-person interaction, providing a welcome counterpoint to the restrictive and atomised environment of cyberspace.

Empowerment and Ownership: We treat all our students as young professionals, not simply older schoolchildren. InvestIN empowers students by thrusting them into a whirlwind of professional life simulation and asking them to stand up and be counted. Along with that empowerment comes the valuable lessons of responsibility. Students are expected to take ownership of their careers immediately, as we give them detailed advice about how to plant the seeds for a successful future, starting now.

Action and Urgency: InvestIN believes that success requires both action and urgency. We have been able to grow at an exponential rate because we move ideas quickly into tangible steps forward and we execute them. InvestIN’s students refuse to be left behind and want to be able to cut through abstract procrastination, becoming empowered to act with decisiveness and urgency.

Ambition: InvestIN is a fervent supporter of determined ambition. We believe that young people - and whole organisations - must continue to ‘think big’ to achieve their potential. We therefore coach our students to believe that there are no limits to their career ambitions and give them the tools they need to thrive.

Imagination: InvestIN is not an ordinary organisation. We create interactive simulations of professional life, which requires a commitment to using our imagination to deliver extraordinary experiences for our students. At the same time, we encourage our students to imagine themselves as young professionals now, not at some distant point in the future. We have discovered that tomorrow’s achievements are born from today’s visualisation.

Integrity: At InvestIN, we understand the great responsibility that we take on in coaching students. Sometimes the simplest sentence or action can have a lasting impact on a young person’s life. We insist on running our operation with the highest level of integrity: from promoting the value of hard work and satisfaction over shortcuts and monetary rewards, to constantly looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

Safer Recruitment, Safeguarding and EDI Statement:

InvestIN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, seasonal workers, and external professionals to share this commitment. InvestIN are committed to making our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values difference, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to InvestIN’s culture. InvestIN are a disability confident employer. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to work with InvestIN will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of Police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable candidates gaining access to minors or vulnerable adults.