Graduate Assistant – Senior School

The Role
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 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 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

Apply via :

standrewsturi.bamboohr.com