Floor Parent-boarding School

**Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity? Enjoy working with students of all ages and backgrounds? This may be the opportunity for you We are currently looking for Long Term individuals to add to our Dormitory team.**

Brookes Westshore strives to support its boarders’ academic, social, cultural and personal growth within a safe and inclusive community where boarders experience a sense of welcome, belonging, value and respect. Boarding staff play a key role in the lives of our boarding students**_._**

**What we offer**:

- Room and Board is provided all year (also during winter, spring and summer breaks) as a taxable benefit.
- 10 month employment contract
- All meals provided on campus as a taxable meal benefit (except during school breaks when the kitchen is closed)
- Eligibility to participate in our Extended Health Benefit plan after successful completion of 3-month probationary period
- On the job training and opportunities in other areas of the school
- Free parking including an electric car station
- Close to public transit
- 20 minutes from downtown Victoria
- Waking distance to many hiking trails and beaches

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**Primary Job Objective as a Floor Parent**:
Floor Parents are responsible for ensuring students live in a safe and stable environment, offering assistance to both students and staff through effective facilitation of day-to-day activities. Floor Parents will be part of a specific team while on duty, and as part of an overall larger residence staff team. Please note that Floor Parents are on-call on your days off unless approved in advance.

**Responsibilities**
- Ensuring effective implementation of an orientation program for new Boarders
- Providing care that ensures each student is receiving one/one contact on a weekly basis to make sure the student is emotionally and academically stable, birthdays and special events are celebrated, and the dorm is made to feel like a home
- Building a rapport with students to help facilitate open lines of communication for questions, problems, and concerns
- Ensuring overall student needs are met including health, social well-being, behaviour management, and emotional support
- Supervising evening curfews and morning wakeup procedures and following Lock up and Lights out procedures
- Be available during the night in case of emergencies
- Advocating for students’ best interests by maintaining liaison with parents, agents, and teachers when required
- Consistently acting as a mentor, supervisor and a positive role model for all students
- Being an active listener for students experiencing academic and/or personal difficulties
- Working with students to develop a sense of respect for self, others and community
- Dealing with first level behaviour issues/consequences
- Ensuring that all of the students in their care are aware of the school’s safety rules and emergency procedures, (fire, earthquake, medical emergency, lock down, and shutting down gas and water supplies)
- Holding weekly meetings with all students in their House to review announcements
- Structuring and fulfilling duties related to students’ daily schedule, including support around uniform needs and health needs ie: ensuring proper uniform is worn daily
- Playing a coordinating role in verifying all requests for weekend and holiday leaves and follow appropriate guidelines regarding transportation
- Teaching and promoting life skills

**Education, Experience and Skills**
- Must complete a Ministry Criminal Record Check
- Diploma in Education, Child & Youth Care or equivalent along with experience working with Youth
- Leadership experience and experience working in a Boarding School is an asset
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
- CPR Level C First Aid certification to be obtained within one month of employment
- Class 4 Driver's license or ability to obtain withing three months of employment

If Brookes Westshore sounds like the type of team you would like to be a member of, please forward your cover letter and resume.

**We thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however only those applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted.