Residential House Parent

  • Barcelona
  • Hamelin Laie

Areas of Responsibility and Key Tasks

  • To provide a safe, nurturing and well-being environment for boarding students.
  • To monitor boarding students’ personal, academic progress, programme of activities, and achievements.
  • To provide a high quality of pastoral care, “in loco parentis” (listening, caring, follow-up), in co-ordination with the School Counselling department and school nurses when appropriate.
  • To provide a good follow up to each single student and keep the Head of Boarding informed as well as parents.
  • To implement the Boarding House Code of Conduct and House rules, ensuring that alongside sanctions, rewards are also provided for the deserving boarders.
  • To contribute to the development and expansion of the Boarding Department.
  • To promote acceptance of other cultures from within the Boarding House.

Key Responsibilities :

  • To monitor general Boarding routine
  • To care and supervise students and act in loco parentis.
  • To contribute to the activity program
  • To communicate effectively with parents, agents, management and teachers
  • To ensure the fabric of the House is taken care of.

Skills and Competencies

  • Possession of a teaching qualification would be an asset.
  • A previous experience in pastoral care and a previous work experience with children age 11-18.
  • Good interpersonal skills, particularly with students.
  • Excellent communication skills. Excellent English skills - with good knowledge of Spanish.
  • Pressure resilient and well
  • organized.

Commitment to Personal and Professional Development

  • Participate in and fully engage with the school’s performance management and appraisal process.
  • Demonstrate continuous professional and personal development through the identification and implementation of individual development plans arising from company and school performance management and appraisal processes.
  • Contribute to wider engagement of colleagues in the marketing and admission function giving support and willingly sharing ideas and materials to promote this

Commitment and engagement to the following Company and Professional Values and Dispositions :

  • Seeking and maximizing opportunity within the organisation - For us, opportunities need to be meaningful, about achieving potential and making progress.
  • Recognizing and pursuing impact within your role
  • For us, impact is about making a difference. It needs to be immediate, positive, and lasting.
  • Encouraging and accepting leadership within the organization
  • For us, leadership is about considering the team’s needs as well as your own, setting inspiring examples, being supportive and showing real accountability and responsibility.
  • Nurturing and modelling respect in all professional and personal interactions - For us, respect is about listening, being inclusive, showing tolerance and getting the little things right.
  • Complying with legal, contractual and company requirements - including statutory responsibilities, Company policies with regards to Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, and other relevant legislation.
  • Any other appropriate duties - as assigned by the Principal of the School or as directed by the Chief Executive Officer or his Regional Representative.

Other Requirements

  • Contribute positively to the morale and community spirit in the school.
  • Work effectively in different teams, supporting other teams when requested by the Principal.
  • Operate at all times within the stated policies and practices of the school.
  • Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the school’s administrative practices, particularly with respect to current software packages.
  • Develop and maintain a knowledge of the school’s mission, strategic priorities and structures.
  • Any other appropriate duties as allocated by the principal.

Promote and adhere to the Nord Anglia Education vision and values:

  • Opportunity :

  • for us, opportunities need to be meaningful, about achieving potential and making progress.

  • Impact :

  • for us, impact is about making a difference. It needs to be immediate, positive and lasting.

  • Leadership - for us, leadership is about considering the team’s needs as well as your own, setting inspiring examples, being supportive and showing real accountability and responsibility.

  • Respect - for us, respect is about listening, being inclusive, showing tolerance and getting the little things right.

All staff are required to manage effective personal development as part of NAE’s commitment to invest in staff as the key resource.

Each individual must ensure that they meet their statutory responsibilities and adhere to NAE and school policies with regard to Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Equal Opportunities and other relevant legislation.

Salary : 30,000.00€ per year

Experience :

  • Boarding School: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 05/06/2023 Expected Start Date: 03/07/2023