School Nurse
Blossom House School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Dependant on experience
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 15 April 2024
Job overview
Blossom House is a specialist independent day school in London for children with speech, language and communication difficulties. A highly supportive and nurturing place to learn, our school has a positive and inspiring atmosphere created by our dedicated, professional and caring staff.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced School Nurse to work alongside our busy School Administrator team to deliver a high standard of medical care to our pupils and staff members.
Primary purpose of the role:
The purpose of this School Nurse role is to provide the school with a dedicated First Aid Co-ordinator and primary contact for pupils and staff requiring first aid information/support during your working hours. This individual will show care and kindness to any person in distress and assessing individual requirements for appropriate action. The School Nurse will carry out their duties with the support of the Administration team.
Responsibilities and Duties:
· To be the primary contact for all serious first aid incidents of pupils and colleagues during your working hours.
· Manage receipt of pupil medication and permission to administer forms.
· Email distribution to teachers of pupils’ daily medical requirements.
· Manage a recording system to record visits to the medical room/team for reference and referral to Specialist Advisor, Group Leader, DSL.
· Recording first aid medical logs on Bromcom/CPOMS and all pupil injury and illness related issues, contacting parents as required and collection arrangements if unwell.
· Monitoring first aid supplies and medication and re-ordering as required.
· To maintain the Medical Room and replenish all First Aid bags around school.
· Ensure that student medication accompanies students when they are off campus for any reason during the school day.
· Nasal flu vaccine co-ordination and staff vaccination (annually).
· To ensure that systems and records are in place and maintained to comply with the School’s First Aid Policy and other policies as required.
· Ensure that pupil emergency medical cover sheets are up to date and organised for trips.
· To ensure that all staff members receive accurate and up-to-date information regarding students with particular/serious/chronic health issues.
· To ensure that medical information is entered into the school management information system (Bromcom/CPOMS) and is communicated effectively to all staff.
· To ensure that the list of First Aiders is kept up to date.
· To liaise with the Office Manager to arrange First Aid courses for staff when required. To include asthma awareness, anaphylaxis & epilepsy management.
· To ensure that the AED (Automated External Defibrillator) is kept in working order.
· To perform any other duties as advised by the Principal, Head of Admin and Office Manager with regards to First Aid.
Other duties
· Handling confidential information
This role is a Fixed-Term contract until July 2024, Term-Time
Monday to Friday: 11:00am - 14:00pm
Salary: Dependant on experience
To Start: April/May 2024
Closing date: 15th April 2024
Attached documents
About Blossom House School
- Blossom House School
- Station Road, Motspur Park, New Malden
- London
- KT3 6JJ
- United Kingdom
Blossom House is a very special place to work, not just because of our wonderful team of staff, but also because of the satisfaction of supporting the development of our fantastic pupils. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in November 2023, we aim to continually evolve our working environment to ensure we remain an outstanding place to work.
We believe in the importance of supporting our staff in all ways and we are committed to investing in your personal development, giving you the opportunity to undertake external courses as well as offering training in INSET. We have a Learning Teaching and Therapy Support Team in place to offer one to one coaching if required.
All assistants currently have the opportunity to obtain a City & Guilds accredited training course in Behaviour Support Management while working here. We also deliver the Elklan course which is an accredited speech and language training programme aimed at professionals working in schools.
We also acknowledge any stress that may be experienced through working in this environment. To support our teaching staff, therapists and other staff, we offer sports activities (including yoga and football) and an employee assistance programme which includes one to one counselling.
When you join the team at Blossom House, you’ll benefit from:
- A modern, climate-controlled working environment at Motspur Park.
- Well-equipped teaching rooms with interactive whiteboards.
- Ample underground car parking and good transport links at Motspur Park, while our Euston school is within walking distance from London Euston rail station.
- Small classes (maximum of 10 but usually less).
- Learning Support Assistant in every class.
- A wellbeing programme that includes a £60 termly wellbeing allowance.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- An independent employee assistance programme.
- UK Healthcare cash plan designed to help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optical and dental bills and offers cashback (up to policy limits) for a variety of different medical treatments. It also offers lifestyle benefits and discounted gym membership.
- Free lunch once a week and ample drinks and snacks in our comfortable staff room.
- Cycle scheme and Tech scheme.
- End of term parties and gifts.
Comments from our staff
‘I was going to give up teaching until I joined Blossom, 8 years later and still learning new things and enjoying it.’
‘It’s nice to feel part of a community where care is at its centre.’
‘Being able to work as such a close team, with so much support, is brilliant.’
‘Everyone is so friendly and the team approach makes working here so much easier.’
We are always interested in meeting friendly, competent, dedicated, suitably qualified and experienced candidates for roles at Blossom House. If you are interested in making a difference and joining our dedicated team, please send your application to recruitment@blossomhouseschool.co.uk.
Blossom House School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including an Enhanced DBS check, the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We can only shortlist based on completed applications and not CV’s alone.
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