Who is InvestIN?
InvestIN's mission is to bridge the gap between school and the workplace. Our 1 - 2 week immersive experiences provide 'the ultimate work experience' for 15 - 18 year olds through a combination of interactive simulations, site visits, seminars, networking sessions and career coaching to build an understanding of their dream career.
We have a global reach with over 70,000 students from 100+ countries and 4,000+ schools attend our Summer programmes, with 50% of our students joining us from countries abroad. Around half of our students stay with us in our central London accommodation, enjoying our exciting social programme of evening and weekend activities and additional opportunities to network with their peers.
Why work with us?
InvestIN is an exciting, fast-paced and supportive environment, and working with us as part of our summer pastoral team is a fantastic opportunity to extend your experience of young people's pastoral care and safeguarding, along with building a strong foundation for more senior pastoral boarding school roles.
Our comprehensive training programme includes a variety of internal and external training, including:
* Bespoke Internal Safeguarding Training
* Adolescent Safeguarding Training
* FGM, SEND, Mental Health, Prevent, KCSIE 2025 Training
* First Aid Qualification
* Fire Marshall Training
* Administration of Medication
We also support our team throughout the summer with regular check-ins and staff socials, along with access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
The Role
InvestIN's Centre Manager will take overall management of one of our Halls of Residence. The CM will oversee the management of a team of up to 40 centre staff members including direct line management of a small team of Assistant Centre Managers. The CM will be the final point of escalation within the residential team and will take accountability and responsibility for the smooth running of the centre and the safeguarding and well-being of all students in our care.
Key Duties:
Site Management:
* Act as on-site safeguarding manager, working closely with InvestIN's Designated Safeguarding Lead
* Overall management of one of our Halls of Residence (UCL Garden Halls or College Halls), working alongside the onsite halls team and the wider InvestIN team.
* Overall accountability and responsibility for smooth and safe running of the centre
* Responsibility for smooth and safe running of the wrap-around pastoral care from when the students check to when they check out.
* Act as on-site Fire Marshall and lead evacuation if needed
Staff Management:
* Line management of a small team of Assistant Centre Managers and on-site nurses
* Oversee the pastoral team accountable for facilitating internal and external communication
* Hold regular centre briefings with the wider centre team
* Hold and document regular 1:1s with Assistant Centre Managers
* Performance manage summer pastoral team and communicate any escalations to HR or DSL
* Act as the primary liaison point between summer pastoral team and InvestIN's full time team, including Directors, DSL and Student Experience Team
* Maintain a regular face time with all members of centre staff, including leading full-team meetings and attending SPAL/ PAL daily meetings
Safeguarding:
* Act as a point of contact for all students across a 24-hour provision, providing support, intervention and advice relating to health, safety and well-being
* Responsibility for escalating any concerns to InvestIN's DSL
* Monitor and report on the well-being of students in your care, including communicating relevant information from risk assessments for any students to S/PALs and Programme Leads
* Maintain up-to-date records on all InvestIN's reporting platforms (CPOMs, Reach)
Behaviour Management:
* Oversee and have a positive impact on the overall residential experience including managing behaviour against our Behaviour Matrix, continually risk assess the safety of the facilities and communicating any hazards or risks to the University of London team and wider InvestIN team.
* Conduct behaviour management meetings and facilitate behaviour plans with students who have been given high-level warnings
* Act as point of contact for escalation of behaviour management issues
* Under the guidance of InvestIN management, lead on student expulsions
Other:
* Understand and act in accordance with InvestIN's ethos and cultural values (set out below)
* Adhere to InvestIN's safeguarding policy and staff/student Code of Conduct procedures and practices.
* Undertake mandatory safeguarding and child protection training and other professional development activities to ensure that you remain compliant in meeting InvestIN's duty of care in safeguarding practice. (KCSIE 2024)
Please note this list is indicative rather than exhaustive, and you may be required to take on additional responsibilities to ensure the well-being of students in your care.
Morning:
* Be an active presence for the students and staff during breakfast
* Triage any safeguarding or well-being concerns
* Receive handover from nighttime watch and action any concerns
* Oversee the beginning of PALs' shift, communicating relevant handover notes
* Oversee morning student residential registration, ensuring that all students are accounted for
* Support with phone queries if needed
* Facilitate smooth running of student departures for programme
* Handover with ACM and Nurses on any new concerns
Evening:
* Triage any concerns as students return from their programme
* Run evening centre briefing
* Maintain a general presence at evening activities and support with any behaviour management issues that arise
* Overseeing a smooth 'bedtime' process, ensuring students are all accounted for
Person specification
You are an experienced professional with a genuine passion for working with and encouraging young people. You are enthusiastic, committed, and passionate about young people's health, well-being and safety and believe in strong fair and clear boundaries. You have a genuine interest and skill in safeguarding young people and understand and can connect to today's young communities and the issues they may face.
Experience:
* Experienced working in pastoral care for young people (essential)
* Experience in successfully leading a team in an operational complex environment (essential)
* Experience of working in a residential boarding setting (essential)
* Experience acting as Designated Safeguarding Lead (essential)
* Experience in supporting SEND students (essential)
* Experience of work with 15-18 year olds (essential)
You have, and can demonstrate, the following skills and interests:
* Excellent reactive prioritisation and problem-solving skills
* Calm, kind and supportive approach
* Proactive and high-energy
* Resilient and positive attitude
* Able to respond quickly and accurately in an emergency
* Innovative and solution-orientated
* Strongly support inclusiveness and diversity
* Have a deep understanding of what constitutes a concern and have the ability to act appropriately to safeguard and protect young people
* Be reliable, punctual and an open communicator
* Be able to adapt and adjust to the changing needs of the live events industry within a safeguarding capacity
* A deeply entrenched sense of personal pride in your work, and a commitment to giving students a 5* experience in every interaction
* A deep belief in InvestIN's sense of purpose and our programmes
* You feel a sense of passion and belonging when you read our cultural values (set out below)
Details of role
Location: Bloomsbury, Central London
Hours: Hours typical of a boarding school setting, with set responsibilities at key hours of the day and on call the rest of the time (you will be asked to 'opt out' of the 48-hour Working Time Directive). One full day off per week.
You will accrue Annual Leave throughout your contract at a standard rate (25 days per year pro-rated). Due to the nature of the role it is unlikely you will be able to take extended leave during your contract.
Salary: £900 per week, plus 2 meals a day and accommodation
Contract: Fixed term contracts available between 30th June and 30th August, with additional training week dates tbc
Full summer contract employment dates 30th June - 19th July, 24th July - 9th August, 15th August - 30th August.
Medium-term contract employment dates 30th June - 19th July & 24th July - 9th August
Short term contract employment dates 21st July - 9th August
A full-summer contract would have breaks in employment on 20th - 23rd July and 10th - 14th August.
Please note that offers will be subject to successful completion of Enhanced DBS checks, Right to Work checks, and statutory Safeguarding training modules. InvestIN reserves the right to terminate contracts in the event of non-completion before contract start date.
InvestIN's Cultural Values
Experience is Truth:
We believe that to learn is to experience. Our mission is to deliver professional experiences to young people that they would otherwise consider a far-flung fantasy. This 'experiential learning' appeals to all the senses and requires live in-person interaction; providing a welcome counterpoint to the restrictive and atomised environment of cyberspace.
Empowerment and Ownership:
We treat all of our students as young professionals, not simply older schoolchildren. InvestIN empowers students by thrusting them into a whirlwind of professional-life simulation, and asking them to stand up and be counted. Along with that empowerment comes the valuable lessons of responsibility. Students are expected to take ownership of their careers immediately, as we give them detailed advice about how to plant the seeds for a successful future; starting now.
Action and Urgency:
InvestIN believes that success requires both action and urgency. We have been able to grow at an exponential rate because we move ideas quickly into tangible steps forward and we execute them. InvestIN's students refuse to be left behind and want to be able to cut through abstract procrastination; becoming empowered to act with decisiveness and urgency.
Ambition:
InvestIN is a fervent supporter of determined ambition. We believe that young people - and whole organisations - must continue to 'think big' in order to achieve their potential. We therefore coach our students to believe that there are no limits to their career ambitions, and give them the tools they need to thrive.
Imagination:
InvestIN is not an ordinary organisation. We create interactive simulations of professional life, which requires a commitment to using our imagination to deliver extraordinary experiences for our students. At the same time, we encourage our students to imagine themselves as young professionals now, not at some distant point in the future. We have discovered that tomorrow's achievements are born from today's visualisation.
Integrity:
At InvestIN, we understand the great responsibility that we take on in coaching students. Sometimes the simplest sentence or action can have a lasting impact on a young person's life. We insist on running our operation with the highest level of integrity: from promoting the value of hard work and satisfaction over shortcuts and monetary rewards, to constantly looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint.
Safer Recruitment, Safeguarding and EDI statement
InvestIN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, seasonal workers, and external professionals to share this commitment.
InvestIN are committed to making our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values difference, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to InvestIN's culture.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to work with InvestIN will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of Police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable candidates gaining access to minors or vulnerable adults.
Open Source Searching Guidance
InvestIN are committed to ensuring that we follow and implement legislation and advisories as set out in the KCSIE 2024 framework. Please see the below statement extracted from Harrison Clark Rickerbys Solicitors (HCR Law - ) regarding the updates within the KCSIE framework relating to open source searching as part of the safer recruitment process.
KCSIE 2024 states:
"... as part of the shortlisting process, schools and colleges should consider carrying out an online search as part of their due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school or college might want to explore with the applicant at interview." (para 226, KCSIE 2024)
Use of AI Policy
All applications must be the original work of the applicant. The use of AI tools to generate or significantly modify any part of the application is strictly prohibited.