College Mentor - Oxford, United Kingdom - Summer Boarding Courses

Summer Boarding Courses

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Oxford, United Kingdom

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Description

About The Role:

Contract Dates - 26/06/ /08/2024

The Role
College Mentors take a key role in providing an exceptional student experience as part of the summer college programme.

They will be engaged in the pastoral care and supervision of students alongside the planning and delivery of activities and evening events.

They will be a trusted point of contact for students to support them through their course, and are responsible for upholding and championing behaviours that we expect to see in our students.

College Mentors need to be highly attentive and well organised in their approach to supervision of students and engaging with behaviour or welfare issues.

With students from a diverse range of countries and cultures, it is important that College Mentors have sufficient presence to connect and include students in order to create a fun, welcoming and vibrant atmosphere in their College.

The Site
SBC at Oxford College is based over Wadham College And St Hughs colleges. Students on the college programme are 15-17 and the capacity is 160 students over both sites each week.

Ways we support our College Mentors**:

Fully paid DBS check
Extensive, paid, onsite training prior to student arrival
All meals and accommodation included
CPD and Appraisals
Staff Wellbeing Initiative
Access to Employee Assist Programme (EAP)
Online safeguarding and prevent training
Professional, fun and supportive environment

Additional Role Specific Support

Paid attendance of a certified First Aid Course

_Remuneration_:
Paid weekly, one week in arrears. The weekly rate received for College mentors is £560 PLUS any accrued holiday to be paid at the end of contract)* Food and accommodation are included for all residential SBC staff.

_ Working Hours:
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***A normal working week for College Mentors will consist of up to 55 hours per week over six working days

College Mentors work six days out of seven and will have one full day off per week.

Main Duties:

Design, plan and deliver activities to groups of students within the evening social programme:
Together with the Social Welfare Manager/Social Programme Manager, and college mentor team assist with the creation, planning and delivery of the evening social programme, ensuring a varied and engaging range of activities and events
Promote evening social events, and ensure all students are signed up to activities
Engage with students to bring energy and enthusiasm to events and activities, helping students to engage and benefit from the programme
Ensure high quality supervision of students during evening events and activities
Lead students in groups on offsite excursions, ensuring high quality supervision and guidance whilst following preplanned itineraries
Lead students either as a Group Leader, Coach Leader, or Excursion Leader, ensuring students are safe and accounted for on excursions.
Supervise and support tutors and classes during off site industry experience trips if required
Promote and embody standards of behaviour that we would expect from our students at all times.
Ensure students feel welcome in the country and college from the first point of contact
Create a welcoming and inclusive environment, in which all students can feel comfortable and cared for
Facilitate conversations and communication between students when needed, ensuring that students are creating bonds and friendships with others
Be committed to the safeguarding and welfare of students at SBC sites
Supervise students in the boarding houses and other college areas, ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour, whilst monitoring and engaging with student welfare.
Proactively address student behavioural issues, providing appropriate intervention when necessary
Remain professional and empathic while dealing with discipline and behaviour management in a positive and constructive manner
Oversee students moving throughout their day including key times at meals, wakeup / lights out, free time sign out and break times
Attend daily College Mentor meetings regarding pastoral issues, planning activities and excursion briefs
Keep management teams informed, and keep records of incidents, sickness and medical issues
Encourage good timekeeping to ensure that all students are in timetabled lessons
Be responsible for attending to unwell students and chaperoning students on visits to the doctors when necessary
Facilitate laundry operations within the College, assisting students using the weekly external laundry service
Adhere to all Health and Safety measures (including COVID safety measures, risk assessments and other policies and procedures)
Help with student transfers to and from the airport for any arrivals and departures
Be on overnight duty 22:00 07:30 up to 3 times per week