Fixed-term Contract Our 2025 Summer School will operate from 6th July to 3rd August Felsted is a leading day and boarding independent school based in a stunning village campus in North Essex. Founded in 1564 by Richard Lord Riche, who had been a Lord Chancellor under King Edward VI. We celebrated our 450th anniversary in 2014, one of only a handful of Schools in the country that have claimed this historic milestone. We employ more than 160 teachers and 440 operational staff in a community orientated environment, ensuring our pupils receive the very best in learning and co-curricular activities. Felsted today provides an exceptional holistic education to approximately 1100 students aged four to eighteen. We are excited to be running our eleventh on-site Summer School in 2025. Operating during the School Summer Holidays for four weeks, the programme offers students a wide range of academic, sporting and cultural opportunities for c500 students aged 8-17 from every corner of the world. To run our successful and well-established programme, we need creative, enthusiastic and well qualified staff to work with us. For our 2025 programme we are looking for a Lead Matron for the Boys’ Houses as well as a Lead Matron for the Girls’ Houses. The two successful applicants will become an integral member of the pastoral team, supporting the Pastoral Manager in the pastoral welfare and safeguarding of pupils, in order to provide a stable, non-judgmental environment for students, to encourage a feeling of trust. In addition to pastoral care, the Lead Matron is responsible for day to day liaison with the Domestic Assistants as well as the arrangements for students’ personal laundry, ordering of cleaning materials and liaising with the Works Dept. regarding minor or urgent maintenance and repairs. This is a fixed-term role between 7th July and 1st August 2025 with inductions being held from 3rd to 5th July. The working hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8.00am to 2.00pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00am to 5:00pm. We will be recruiting for this role on an ongoing basis. Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the role prior to the advertised closing date of 28 February if the role is successfully filled earlier than this. Initial interviews will be held online. If you would like to apply for this position please go to https://www.felsted.org/employment-opps/summer-jobs Felsted is committed to equal opportunities and maintaining a safe and secure environment for all pupils and a ‘culture of vigilance’ to safeguard and protect all in its care, and to all aspects of its ‘Safeguarding (Child Protection and Staff Behaviour) Policy’. Please note, it is an offence to apply for this position if barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All employees are subject to pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.