Job Introduction
As a School health support worker you’ll be working closely with our friendly and dedicated School Nurses, following our policies and procedures, to help deliver the Healthy Child Programme (5–19). Together, we’ll support schools, families, and children/young people, helping them to grow, learn, and thrive.
As part of Wiltshire Children’s Community Services, you’ll work both within our team and across partner organisations, building positive relationships and making a real difference in the community.
Your role will include:
Carrying out vision, hearing, and growth checks for children starting school
Supporting the National Child Measurement Programme
Delivering engaging health promotion activities and interventions for pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
This is a role where your care, patience, and enthusiasm can have a lasting impact on children’s health and wellbeing.
Main Responsibility
In the role of School health support worker, you’ll help support children’s health and wellbeing in schools across Wiltshire. You’ll carry out growth, vision, and hearing screening for eligible pupils, following national and local guidance, and will be confident using LogMAR vision and audiology tests. You’ll also contribute to the National Child Measurement Programme, working closely with schools to ensure smooth delivery.
You’ll work independently in school settings, following School Health Nursing standards, while maintaining positive relationships with staff and encouraging participation in screening programmes. You’ll manage your own workload, keep accurate records, maintain equipment, and submit data on time.
Alongside screening, you’ll deliver health promotion activities and small-group interventions, as directed by School Nurses, and support the wider School Nursing Team when needed. You’ll use IT systems to record activity, communicate effectively with colleagues and partner agencies, and ensure resources are used efficiently.
Safeguarding will remain central to your work, and you’ll keep your knowledge up to date through training, meetings, and supervision. You’ll also welcome student observers to the role, adapt to changing needs in the service, and play an active part in team discussions and quality improvement.
The Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for someone with a friendly, approachable manner and a passion for supporting children and young people. You’ll have good communication skills, be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, and be able to build positive relationships with colleagues across different services.
Ideally, you’ll hold NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent), have a GCSE in English (or equivalent), and be confident using IT. If you haven’t yet completed the Care Certificate, you’ll be happy to do so within your first three months. Experience working with children or young people—professionally or voluntarily—is essential.
You’ll be organised, proactive, adaptable to changing needs, and committed to delivering high-quality work. A full driving licence and access to a car during working hours are required.
You’ll have a good understanding of child development and hold a childcare qualification. Experience with screening checks like vision, hearing, height, and weight is valuable, as is familiarity with using clinical record systems such as SystmOne. Previous work within a school nursing service and confident presentation skills are also beneficial
For more information or an informal discussion please call Lucy Binney, Team Leader on 07976857832 or email lucy.binney@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a School Health Support Worker you’ll be part of our valued Greenways East Team, working in Wiltshire Children’s Community Services
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £24,486 with Group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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