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Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant

Holmewood House School

Tunbridge Wells

Salary:
£24-25K FTE, £17 - 17.5K for c. 70% of FTE expectation
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Apply by:
11 December 2018

Job overview

Holmewood House School is a top rated independent Preparatory School of 440 pupils just outside Tunbridge Wells, set in over 30 acres of stunning Kent countryside. A Health Care Assistant role has become available in our Health and Wellbeing Team. This small but busy team plays a vital role in the School and includes the School Nurse, the Wellbeing Counsellor, a Boarding Matron and this role. The role reports to the School Nurse.

The health care assistant will work on opposite shifts to the School Nurse undertaking full responsibility for the health and wellbeing of pupils, and offering first aid to staff, parents and visitors while on duty including providing first aid during sports matches. The applicant will be responsible for first aid bags and equipment used several times a week, as well as monitoring and ordering new supplies. There is a significant administrative element to the role including medical records requiring confidentiality and aspects of safeguarding, organisation of first aid training and vaccinations, administration of regular updating for staff and school healthcare policies. All applicants must have good IT skills to support these tasks. Applicants will require a good standard of English both spoken and written. A confident telephone manner is also desirable. There will also be an opportunity for some health promotion education to pupils individually and in groups.

The successful applicant will preferably have previous medical/physiotherapy/paramedic experience ideally in a school environment but at the minimum, 3 years of experience in first aid with an appropriate qualification. The successful applicant will enjoy working primarily with children and be aware of their health and wellbeing needs. They will also need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, caring, organisational and time keeping skills. They need to be calm, caring, competent, quick thinking with excellent decision-making skills and an ability to react swiftly and delegate in an emergency. This is an active post and applicants will need to be fit and energetic.

There is a need for flexibility as some periods become exceptionally busy and workload is unpredictable. They will need to be able to work alone and in liaison with pastoral, boarding and strategic learning support teams. There is considerable emphasis on first aid and sports injury alongside caring for unwell children (including boarders). 

The person appointed will be supported by the current School Nurse and necessary training will be provided as well as an opportunity for progression within the role. This post requires the applicant to wear a uniform tunic supplied by school, and trainers.

The specific working pattern will be discussed at interview, but in general, it will be a term time role working a 36 hour week on various part day shifts between 8am and 6pm including alternate Saturdays with potential for a day or two in the school holidays.

Remuneration will be discussed at interview and will depend on the precise hours worked and the calibre of the successful candidate. The salary will based on the pro rata of the full time equivalent of c.£24-25K, i.e. a salary in the region of £17-17.5K based on a c.70% FTE expectation. The role includes four weeks paid holiday, plus statutory holidays, per annum pro rata. The School provides on-site catering and a Qualifying Workplace Pension Scheme. An active Staff Wellbeing programme includes a variety of free fitness classes and social events.

Please send a completed application form by email to Mrs Claire Little clittle@holmewoodhouse.co.uk  to arrive no later than Tuesday 11 December. Applicants may include a copy of their curriculum vitae with their application if it contains additional relevant information. If you have any questions, please call the Headmaster’s PA, Mrs Claire Little, on 01892 860001. The School will look to interview suitable candidates upon receipt of application, so early application is encouraged. The selected candidate will ideally start as early as possible in the New Year.

About Holmewood House School

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+44 1892 860000

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Holmewood House is a vibrant and thriving Preparatory school located on the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells. Holmewood House is a non-selective school where, according to our ISI report, “The quality of pupils’ academic and other achievements; and the quality of pupils’ personal development” were both deemed ‘excellent’. We are a busy, welcoming and dynamic school community; our school values of self-belief, aspiration and kindness inform everything we do.

Our beautiful school is set within 30 acres of stunning grounds, equipped with state of the art classroom facilities, a 6 lane, 25m indoor swimming pool and 500 seat theatre, as well as our Learning Hub and Learning Strategies area which are both centrally located within the school to support and enhance our teaching and learning provision for every child.

Our teachers all share a love of the children in their care and all our teachers are Form Teachers or Assistant Form Teachers too, as we believe the pastoral and academic areas of school life as intrinsically linked. We celebrate teachers’ further learning and have supported three different colleagues through two Masters in Education and one MBA respectively in the last two academic years. We welcome colleagues who explicitly connect research with practice and want to bring ideas to the table. Our teachers from all areas of the school can join our Teacher Learner Community, which collaborates to share teaching and learning innovation, research and ideas to support continual development. All teachers have access to in-house drop-in counselling support and in-house coaching, should they wish to work on specific areas of their wellbeing or professional practice. We also have a peer mentoring system in place for both teachers and pupils who are keen for further support and guidance. Many of our teachers volunteer to support pupils and teachers in both these mentoring programs.

We regard these vital preparatory school years as forming the very foundation on which our pupils build their lifelong learning and indeed their lives. We are mindful of the fact that our pupils’ experience of school and of life at this early age will significantly shape the adults that they will become. To this end, we place a strong emphasis on outstanding pastoral care; we nurture the wellbeing of every child to enable them to thrive within an ever changing and fast paced world. We believe ensuring positive mental health in our community is the very foundation of the learning that follows. To this end, our teachers foster the Holmewood House learning behaviours in their lessons and beyond (featured below) so as to develop our pupils’ self-belief, aspiration and kindness, both towards themselves and others. We offer a rich, broad and balanced curriculum and full array of extracurricular sports and activities, to support every pupil in finding their niche and to grow everyone‘s love of learning.

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