仕事内容:
The House Assistant Role
(Please note that this is not a boarding position and House Assistants will be commuting to the boarding house from home)
Each of our boarding houses is home to approximately 65 pupils, aged between 11 to 18 and the House Assistant (‘HA’, often known as a Matron in other schools) is to be an integral member of the House team. Along with the Housemaster/mistress (HM), Assistant HM and Resident Tutor, the HA helps to ensure the welfare and well-being of pupils in the House, contributing to the development of a friendly, safe and supportive culture and environment. The HA is expected to be a visible presence, setting the tone as a role model and being accessible and approachable to the pupils. Issues of safeguarding and confidentiality are to be understood to a high degree, and a well tuned understanding of the needs of the pupils, options for support, and channels of communication is essential. The HA will also be expected to provide administrative support to the HM.
Main Duties:

• Creating a home: The HA’s role can generally be summarised as creating a home for the pupils within the boarding House. Just like a parent might do for their own children, this could involve baking, celebrating birthdays, providing appropriate snacks, setting standards, having high expectations for the pupils, and having the pupils’ well-being and happiness at the heart of everything that happens in the school.
• Pastoral Care: The HA plays a crucial role, alongside the HM and other house staff, in the daily pastoral care of the pupils in the boarding House. Collectively, they have a responsibility for creating an environment within which the pupils feel safe and well looked after. The HA should be alert to warning signals potentially indicating unhappiness or problems in a pupil’s life, and should be prepared to communicate concerns with colleagues and, when necessary, with outside agencies.
• Medical support: Although the School has a Health Centre staffed at all times by professional nurses, the HA is often the first port of call for pupils who are feeling unwell in House. The HA is responsible for providing care, dispensing routine medications, and liaising with the Health Centre staff in order to determine the best course of action for the pupils, sometimes sending them to be looked after in the Health Centre. The HA is often required to accompany pupils in their House to routine appointments and attend to any medical emergencies.
• Beginning and end of terms and half-terms: The HA plays a crucial role in getting the boarding House ready before the beginning of the new term, as well as being on hand for the arrival of pupils into the House, typically on the evening before term starts, and on the morning when the day pupils arrive. Helping to settle the pupils into the House, meeting parents and receiving passports and medications from them, and creating a homely and welcoming environment, are central to the HA’s role. At the end of term and half term periods, the HA is needed to ensure that all the pupils have left the House, and that the rooms and common areas are appropriately emptied, with windows closed and lights switched off.
• Registration: The HA is responsible for recording daily attendance at House registrations, and following up absences with colleagues and with parents when necessary.
• Administrative support for the HM and the House: The HA is often required to perform administrative duties for the HM, including helping to organise events, make calendar entries, support with filing, and generally play a central role in managing a well ordered and organised House. Some of these tasks will require competent use of IT systems and the School’s databases.
• Meeting parents: The HA will meet prospective and current parents who are visiting the boarding House.
• Liaison with Maintenance and Logistics teams: The HA is responsible for liaising with the School’s logistics and maintenance teams, to ensure faults and damage are recorded and rectified promptly, and that any logistical functions are facilitated.
• Cover: The HA will be required to provide cover for other boarding Houses in the event of staff shortages elsewhere in the School.
• Clothing & Laundry: The HA is required to liaise with domestic teams to ensure that laundry is sent and received in good time on behalf of the pupils within the boarding House. Some onsite laundry in the boarding House and small repairs to pupils’ clothing may be required from time to time.
• Cleanliness: The HA plays an important role, alongside the other House staff, in maintaining cleanliness and tidiness within the boarding House. The HA will coordinate with cleaning staff, directing priorities and setting expectations alongside domestic service supervisors. Routine checks of pupils’ dorms and common areas are expected, as is the creation of a culture of respect by the pupils, who are required to keep their spaces orderly and hygienic.
• Meetings: Regular formal and informal communication with colleagues is expected of the HA. HAs will be required to meet with each other, with their House teams, and with the Deputy Principal (Pastoral) regularly.
• Other roles and duties: There will be a number of other activities which the HA would be expected to attend, including House events, and the HA is encouraged to bring any specialist skills to the school, such as support for the well-being programme, and any initiatives which are deemed appropriate and beneficial to the school. Success in the role will be dependent on having a constructive relationship with the other House staff, and it is hoped that the HA would be willing to contribute in other areas to House life as required by the HM.

The following duties shall be deemed to be included in the professional duties which staff may be required to perform:
Appraisal and professional development

• Participate in arrangements made for staff appraisal and professional development.
• Undertake such training as may be reasonably required by the School to adapt to the changing requirements of the School or as may be necessary to fulfil the School's statutory or regulatory obligations.
• To undertake mandated job related training as required and instructed by the School.
• HAs are required to hold a current First Aid Certificate, and so will be expected to attend First Aid Courses.

Child protection, discipline, health and safety

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people at Rugby School Japan.
• Maintain good order and discipline among the pupils and safeguard their health and safety both when they are on the School premises and when they are engaged in authorised School activities elsewhere.
• Ensure all staff act in accordance with Rugby School Japan’s policies and procedures.

Equality and diversity

• Acting in accordance with Rugby School Japan’s equality and diversity policy, maintaining a fair and consistent manner in all actions.

Flexibility

• Undertake such other reasonable duties from time to time as the School may reasonably require.

アピールポイント:
Rugby School Japan
Rugby School Japan will launch in Kashiwanoha (“Oak Leaf”) Smart City, Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo), in September 2023 to champion a new era of British international education in Japan. It will be Rugby’s second international sister school. The School will be a co-educational day and boarding school based on a campus within walking distance of a baseball stadium, football pitch, lake and running track in Kashiwanoha Park.
Rugby School Japan shares Rugby’s ethos of ‘the whole person, the whole point’: the School believes in taking education beyond the classroom and nurturing the whole person – in mind, body and spirit – to give pupils a holistic sense of self
求める人材:
THE PERSON
The successful candidate will have:
Qualifications

• 5 GCSE (or equivalent) passes, at grade “C” or above, including Maths and English
• Educated to A Level (or equivalent)
• First aid qualification

Experience

• Experience of working with young people

Skills

• The ability to offer a high level of pastoral care
• Good spoken and written English.
• The ability to communicate both in writing and verbally with a wide range of people
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Flexibility and the ability to work calmly and quickly under pressure
• Resourcefulness and the ability to multitask and prioritise
• Ability to work well as part of a team and also autonomously
• IT literacy, with a high level of competence in Microsoft Excel, Word & Outlook
• Previous experience as a Matron or similar in a Boarding School
• Previous experience as a Nurse
• Experience of working in an educational and/or medical environment
• Experience of working with teenage children

勤務時間・曜日:

• Monday ~ Fridays (40 hours per week)
• *Saturdays & Sundays are Non-working Days

May be required to work some Saturdays for special events School Holidays are Non-Working Days Japanese National Holidays are not observed
休暇・休日:

• *Saturdays & Sundays Non-working Days (May be required to work on some Saturdays for special events)
• School Holidays are Non-Working Days
• Japanese National Holidays are not observed

勤務地:

• Rugby School Japan, Kashiwanoha Campus

アクセス:

• A 5-minute walk from Kashiwanoha-Campus Station (Tsukuba Express)

給与:
固定残業代あり：年俸 ￥4,000,000 〜 ￥5,000,000は1か月当たりの固定残業代￥72,000〜￥85,000（30時間相当分）を含む。30時間を超える残業代は追加で支給する。

• Monthly Salary includes 30 hours of fixed overtime allowance
• Commutation Allowance up to JPY 30,000 / Month

待遇・福利厚生:

• Full Social Security Package
• 20 Paid Annual Leave per Academic Year
• 10 Paid Sick Days per Academic Year

その他:
APPLICATION PROCESS
Contract Period:
6th January, 2025 ~ 31 July 2026
*Contract renewable upon performance and mutual agreement
Recruitment Closing Date
Friday 29 November, 2024 (early applications are encouraged); Rugby School Japan reserves the right to make an appointment at any stage of the recruitment process.
*Please note only successful candidates will be contacted.
Interviews
Initial interviews will take place online. Successful candidates will be invited for a second interview at our office in Tokyo.
Qualifications, Identification, Health and Background Checks
Please note that you may be required to bring documentation to the interview providing proof of your identity and qualifications. You may also be required, within the final appointment process, to undergo a health check and relevant background checks as part of the School’s recruitment and safeguarding procedures.
Child Protection
Rugby School Japan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS. In addition, all successful candidates will be vetted in accordance with COBIS, NMBS and KCSi E requirements.
The Rugby School Group Safeguarding Policy can be found at
https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/RSG-Safeguarding-and-Child-Protection-Policy-MASTER-updated-March-22.pdf
雇用形態: 契約社員
給与・報酬: 4,000,000円 - 5,000,000円 年俸
平均所定労働時間（1か月当たり）: 160時間
通勤の可否:

• 千葉県 柏市 柏の葉キャンパス駅 (必須)

学歴:

• 学士 (必須)

言語:

• 英語 (必須)
• 日本語 (必須)