Job Description

Required from March 2025

We have an opportunity for a Welfare Assistant/Administrator to join our medical team at Channing school.

Your role will be to support the Junior School first aid and welfare needs and the whole school Medical Team administrative needs during term time.  The Medical Team is a small team, aided by first aid trained teaching and support staff. Each site – Senior and Junior School – has its own medical room with a bed, medical fridge and supply cupboard. You will work collaboratively with the Whole School Senior Leadership Team, Junior School Senior Team, SEND Department and counsellors on both sites to provide safeguarding and welfare support to all our pupils and staff.

Working in close collaboration with the School Nurse, the successful candidate will provide support and care for pupils aged four to eleven with diagnosed conditions, prescribed medication and general first aid needs. They will oversee break and lunch time first aid support and manage trip medical requirements and school first aid kits and supplies. They will ensure pupils are settled into school by liaising with the Reception Form Teachers and Head of Early Years and Key Stage 1. They will be responsible for managing emergency medication storage and administration and ensuring supportive communication with parents and staff to provide the best care for pupils in line with school policies.

Core hours are Monday to Friday 9.15am-3.15pm during term time. Tuesday finish is 4.30pm to attend the Junior School Staff Meeting for weekly updates. INSET days require attendance and will be longer to allow for mandatory and compliance training. July Founders Day Saturday is a required working day and all staff are contracted to attend with a day off in Lieu.

Deadline for applications: Friday 31 January 2025

Interviews: Friday 7 February 2025

Channing School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To assist in this, the school follows a formal recruitment procedure for the employment of all staff which adheres to the recommendations of the Department for Education (DfE) in “Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education” and the school’s Child Protection Policy. A copy of this procedure is available on request.

Subject to statutory provisions, no applicant will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic. Ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.