Health Centre Nurse
Headington School
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- November 2019
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2019
Job overview
HEALTH CENTRE NURSE, FULL TIME SHIFT WORK, TERM TIME
Start date: November 2019
Headington is a vibrant and welcoming school set in 23 acres on the outskirts of Oxford. In an environment where individuals come first, Headington is renowned for its commitment to academic excellence, pastoral support and an impressive range of extra-curricular opportunities.
The Health Centre Nurse will be an enthusiastic State Registered Nurse responsible for managing the School’s 24/7 health centre on a full time, shift work basis including day time hours, evenings (including overnight) and weekends during term time.
Part of a small dedicated and professional team reporting to the Lead Nurse, you will coordinate the provision of onsite medical care and advice for all pupils and staff. You will possess excellent interpersonal skills and have experience of working with young people. The successful candidate will be well organised with excellent administrative skills. An awareness of, and ability to deal with the mental health needs of young women is desirable. You will be sensitive, empathetic, patient and flexible, able to work as part of a dedicated and professional team, and confident to operate independently when lone working.
If you are interested in applying for this position please refer to our website: www.headington.org for a job specifi cation and application form.
Please send your completed application form and covering letter to recruitment@headington.org
PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY
Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and be prepared to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Headington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS and barred lists checks. The School expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Headington School is an equal opportunities employer.
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About Headington School
- Headington School
- Headington Road, Headington, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7TD
- United Kingdom
Headington is a leading day and boarding school for girls aged 3-18, set in a green 23-acre site located a mile from Oxford city centre.
It is a place where girls are given the opportunities to grow and develop their strengths and talents, whatever they may be, partnering academic excellence with superlative pastoral care and extra-curricular activities. While academically selective, girls are selected on potential and many achieve far beyond their predictions on entry. The focus is on providing a well-rounded education, with fantastic teaching and learning complemented by exciting, inspiring and challenging opportunities outside the classroom, and ensuring girls are ready for their future, whatever it may hold.
Headington’s results regularly place it among the top schools in the country at GCSE and A Level. The School offers an extremely broad curriculum, with over 20 subjects to choose from at GCSE and a choice of nearly 30 subjects in the Sixth Form. Girls benefit from proximity to Oxford’s two universities with a wide-ranging programme of speakers, lectures and visits involving experts and specialists from Oxford and Oxford Brookes.
Around 150 different extra-curricular activities are on offer each week, featuring academic enrichment, creative arts, sport, dance, performing arts and leadership and enrichment.
The School is rated excellent in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. The School, which has over 1,000 pupils across the prep and senior schools, has a thoroughly international and culturally diverse outlook, with more than 45 different nationalities represented. Around one in four of the 800 Senior School girls board and there are opportunities for staff to become involved in the boarding life of the School alongside their day to day roles.
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