Job Description

Bishop's Stortford College

Hertfordshire
22,587 pro rata

Job type:

Full Time, Temporary

Start date:

01 September 2025

Apply by:

23 July 2025

Job overview

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The College is seeking to appoint a temporary Residential Pastoral Assistant from September to join our warm and friendly boarding community. The Resident Boarding Assistant will be someone generous with their time and responsive to the needs of the pupils.

Working as part of a team of residential staff, you will provide a nurturing and supportive environment for boarding students within your House, ensuring their welfare, safety, and well-being.

This role requires a compassionate and empathetic individual who can effectively communicate with students, parents and staff to ensure the smooth operation of the boarding facility.

The ideal candidate will have English and Mathematics at GCSE grade 4 or above and good A Levels or equivalent, with suitable qualifications and/or experience in nursing or care work. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, empathy and listening skills, in addition to competent ICT skills, are important. As an organised and enthusastic individual, you will be a good team player and have a passion for supporting young people to achieve their best.

This is a temporary role for around four months, which may be extended.

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A copy of the College's Child Protection Policy is available on the website.

Bishop's Stortford College is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; all employees are subject to a number of pre-employment and safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check. References and an online search will be undertaken prior to interview. To this end, robust Safeguarding processes and procedures are in place to support families, pupils, staff, and volunteers. In compliance with the sharing of information guidance/best practice, any concerns are passed to designated teachers, trained in Safeguarding.

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About

Bishop's Stortford College

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Bishop's Stortford College

School House, Maze Green Road, Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 2PQ
United Kingdom

+44 1279 838575

At Bishop's Stortford College, we have built a wonderful, busy, cheerful, confident and highly successful community. Within this environment your child's personal journey of discovery will begin the moment they join us.



Our school offers the whole package: breadth of opportunity, depth of academic enquiry, and quality of human values and skills.

Qualifications and Qualities

Academic qualifications are a prime focus for us, yet we know that qualifications alone will not suffice for a life fully lived. Human qualities of decency and kindness are also a large part of the ticket to success. Together, qualifications and qualities are what an education for today and tomorrow must deliver.



We provide specialist subject teachers throughout our Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior Schools and know that very good teachers at this very formative age have a very noticeable effect. We are selective based on academic ability, yet despite this, our value-added score is probably one of the best in the country. We are consistently in the top 7% nationally meaning that our school makes the greatest difference.

Breadth and Balance

From whatever age your child joins us, life will be busy. They will be doing lots of different things, learning how to prioritise - to take charge of what they are doing and when. But even more importantly, your child will quickly find things they enjoy and become good at.



When they leave us, they will be well prepared for life beyond school, with a combination of abilities, some social, some academic and with choices - choices as to where to direct their efforts and enthusiasm. They will also have the confidence of knowing how to function in the new world that we are all going to embrace.

Community Spirit

We recognise the world your child will be entering and the skills they need. Learning to collaborate, to be a team player, to become friends with diverse, different people, will happen. Here there is a togetherness where none of us is as important as all of us.



The diversity of backgrounds, nationalities and ages of our pupils ensures horizons are expanded and everyone learns together and from each other.



We do not look like most schools of our type. We are different in some important ways. We are the modern face of independent education.


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