Activity Leader (Summer) Folkestone, England
Job description
About The Role
- Shorter Contracts Available
Main Duties
- Assume responsibility for the welfare of all students
- Engage with students in a friendly but professional manner
- Supervise students in the boarding houses and other college areas, ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour and monitoring student welfare
- Oversee students moving throughout their day including key times at meals, wake-up / lights out, and break times
- Attend daily Activity Leader meetings regarding pastoral issues, planning activities and excursion briefs
- Be on duty during all designated meal and break times ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour and supervising student welfare at all times
- Engage with the students in a friendly but professional manner at all times
- Be responsible for attending to unwell students and make arrangements with doctors when directed by the Centre Manager
- Keep records of incidents, sickness and medical issues and inform the centre manager
- Oversee general room tidiness and report any maintenance issues to the Centre Manager
- Pro-actively address student behavioural issues remaining professional and empathic while dealing with discipline and behaviour management in a positive and constructive manner
- Help ensure that the students do not breach the rules of the school
- Assist at any time, whether on duty or not, with an emergency situation, or where a student is ill or injured
- Adhere to all Health and Safety measures (including COVID safety measures, risk assessments and other policies and procedures, as required at the time of operation)
- Together with the Centre Manager, take responsibility for the execution of the weekly Social Programme, ensuring a varied and engaging programme activities, events and excursions
- Design, plan and deliver activities to groups of students within the programme
- Work alongside fellow Activity Leaders to plan and deliver structured and engaging whole college events.
- Lead students in the daily Programme sessions and on excursions, following pre-planned itineraries
About You
All members of staff employed by Earlscliffe will be expected to bring certain key qualities to the operation. There must be a professional interest in working with young people and particularly international children. Safety and welfare of the students is of paramount importance at Earlscliffe and a practical enforcing of this belief should be a quality exhibited by all staff.
We look for staff who are:
- Approachable
- Empathic to the needs of students
- Enthusiastic
- Engaging
- Diplomatic
- Responsible
- Motivated
- Flexible within the summer school environment
Although Activity Leaders are not required to teach the English language lessons, we do expect them to be able to communicate effectively with our students, using an appropriate level of language to suit the group. Activity Leaders must demonstrate patience, empathy and an emotional awareness towards students both individually and in within a group setting. We expect Activity Leaders to take control of students and to manage discipline and behavioural issues in a firm, positive and constructive manner.
Experience Required
Essential
- Experience working with children in a professional capacity
- Experience of, and genuine enjoyment of working with children
- Strong communication skills, ability to work under pressure, flexibility
- Ability to take control of and lead a group of children on activities and during excursions
- Strong organisational skills
- Desirable
- Experience of residential international summer schools
- Experience of working within the education sector
- Qualifications and experience in leading young people in either tennis, dance, performing arts, music or arts and crafts
- Experience and qualifications in coaching other sport
About Us
Since 2008, Summer Boarding Courses (SBC) has welcomed Young Learners, aged between 8 and 17 years old, from 151 different countries to study our courses in some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the UK, including Eton College and Oxford University.SBC is committed to providing our students with an exceptional experience. To create the global citizens of tomorrow, we guarantee a truly multinational learning environment which encourages cross-cultural learning, collaboration and friendship.
SBC is the first, and currently only, summer school provider in the UK to have achieved a perfect 15 Areas of Strength in a British Council inspection. In the EL Gazette ranking tables for UK Junior Courses, SBC has been ranked Number 1 in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. We are very proud of this achievement and will continue to grow and develop our courses to offer students extraordinary experiences.
As a small and growing office we are expanding year on year and where possible we aim to recruit from our short term summer staff before seeking external candidates. A large percentage of our Head Office staff worked at our summer sites before joining us for their full-time careers. As a part of Dukes Education we also have links to many other schools which occasionally offer up employment opportunities to our staff.
Whilst international travel restrictions have been in place, we have worked closely with a number of boarding schools to provide holiday courses for their students who have been unable to return home. We look forward to utilising this experience to provide a safe, secure, and enjoyable experience for all of our students and staff in the coming year.
SBC SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT
Summer Boarding Courses is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We have a comprehensive Child Protection Policy and procedures in place which all employees, volunteers and contractors are expected to adhere to.
SBC EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT
We operate a policy of equal opportunities and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin or disability.
- Please note that given the short-term nature of these contracts at SBC and the duty of care we have to our students, holiday will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances and must be requested at least one month prior to taking leave. At the end of your contract, you will receive a payment for any holiday you are owed. If you take any holiday during your contract, then this will be deducted from your holiday allowance.
