Head of Girls’ Boarding for BROMSGROVE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Thailand

Major Responsibilities:

Responsible for all boarding matters in their Boarding House including staffing, communication with staff, students and parents, and the smooth running of the houses according to policy, procedure and practice.

1. To develop and manage the boarding staff and other support staff in the boarding house.
2. To ensure the policies and procedures, as set out in documentation, are carried out effectively and initiate any necessary changes according to circumstance.
3. To ensure that boarding staff, parents and pupils understand the aims and objectives of boarding at BIST, and the principles on which community life in the houses are based.
4. To ensure that the children are looked after as individuals according to their needs and in accordance with school policy. It is expected that the BSA minimum standards will be applied as a model of good practice.
5. To manage the levels of staff supervision to ensure the safety and security (including emotional) and on expeditions and outings).
6. To ensure
7. Maintain a standard of consistency across all boarding houses in terms of policy, practice and procedure.
8. To attend regular minuted meetings with relevant boarding staff to ensure effective communication and to give staff a voice to air concerns and suggestions for improvement.
9. To be responsible for the expenditure of the school boarding house funds and to ensure that proper accounts are kept, for use by the Accountant as well as managing any Boarding budget.
10. To develop in the pupils a collective responsibility to be aware of the difficulties or problems of others, and to allow students to have a democratic voice in boarding through a boarding council.
11. To ensure that a full and varied program of age-appropriate extra-curricular activities is available, and pupils are appropriately occupied, especially at weekends.
12. To cultivate contact and communicate with parents regularly, to ensure that they are fully informed about boarding matters such as activities, important dates and changes to routines and
13. ms, achievements and misconduct.
14. To provide such reports and references as may reasonably be required to the Headmaster.
15. To fulfil
16. To ensure that all members of the boarding staff team (including Deputy Housemistresses and matron, resident tutors, gap year students and house assistants policies and procedures for child protection, countering bullying, health and safety, medical matters and are aware of the appropriate response needed in these areas.
17. To continually improve and suggest new initiatives for improvement.
18. To work with the marketing department as required to promote boarding.
19. To be an ambassador for boarding and to support common room staff serving in duties in boarding.
20. To organize and run trips at weekends and in the evenings.
21. To perform any other key tasks which the Headmaster may reasonably assign