Resident Assistant Houseparent, Boarding

The Royal School, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EG

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  9 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Permanent, Monday-Sunday, including evenings and sleeping duties. Term time plus 2 weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,293-£34,550 p.a.

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Royal School is looking for a dynamic, innovative and empathetic assistant houseparent to join our boarding team and add to our award-winning boarding experience. The role of an assistant houseparent, while challenging, is often the most fulfilling and rewarding role in any school and here at the Royal this is no different. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to and build on our boarding experience that has helped students achieve academic and extra-curricular success (including a gold medal and an MBE).

What the school offers its staff

Boarders at the Royal are a key part of the school’s character, ethos and history. The school has two boarding houses, Dartmouth and Lichfield, serving boys and girls from year 7 to year 13. We have capacity for 82 boarders at present, but following expansion as part of our £46 million rebuild and refurbishment programme, this will increase to 100 students across the two houses.

Our boarders join us from across the globe and from all walks of life. We house Elite Swimmers, International Students (with British citizenship or leave to remain), and UK residents alongside a small number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs) in keeping with our origins and foundation as an orphanage.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About The Royal School, Wolverhampton

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1493 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Royal School, Wolverhampton website
• Email address: lcallaway@theroyal.school
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-royal-school-wolverhampton

Thank you for your interest in the post here at The Royal School,
Wolverhampton (RSW). To help you decide on whether this is the school
for you it is important to understand where we have come from and where
we are going.
The school is built upon a combination of things; it’s unique heritage,
record of academic excellence, outstanding educational environment, and the full support and endorsement of our Patron, the Earl of Wessex.
From this, the Governors and leadership team are committed to supporting wider access for pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds, to add to The Royal’s rich and diverse educational offer.
The Royal School, Wolverhampton offers a unique proposition to families
in Wolverhampton and its surrounding area of an ‘all-through’, 4-19, coeducational, nondenominational day and state boarding school, with the capacity over time to provide for 1500 pupils, through a carefully managed programme of growth.
Whilst remaining fully non-selective and dedicated to supporting pupils in
need, this change process has enabled RSW to combine its traditional
values and academic offer with a global perspective. All this is to benefit
our pupils, and to create a dynamic outward looking, culturally diverse, yet inclusive school community. Within this, pupils acquire the rich subject knowledge, life skills, understanding and aspiration to succeed locally, nationally, and internationally.
We welcome your application to be part of our community and would love
you to visit and see the school in action or call us to talk things through.

Arranging a visit to The Royal School, Wolverhampton

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lcallaway@theroyal.school.

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