Job Introduction
As a School Health Support Worker you’ll join a team who are focused on delivering impeccable customer service to our colleagues and service users within West Wiltshire, contributing to the delivery of the National Child Measurement, vision and audiology screening programmes and the delivery of health promotion sessions to School aged children within our locality areas to really make our service users and staff feel the difference.
Please note this is Term time only post and pay is pro rata.
Main Responsibility
Your days will be busy, rewarding and varied, they will include working with colleagues to plan and deliver school screening sessions across our locality areas of Melksham, Westbury, Warminster, Trowbridge, and Bradford on Avon and surrounding villages, carrying out screening sessions and providing data. As part of the School nursing team you will be delivering pre-prepared health promotion sessions to primary schools upon request.
You will be based at Derby Court Hub, on the White Horse Business Park in Trowbridge, with some opportunity to work remotely. Our hub has the A350 road and local shops nearby, and we supply tea and coffee making facilities for staff.
Your main responsibilities will be
To promote, plan and carry out height/weight, vision and audio screening for eligible pupils. To be fully proficient in the application of LogMAR vision and audio screening tests and work independently in schools adhering to School Health Nursing competencies/ standards/pathways in delivery of health screening. To establish and maintain good working relationships with all school staff. To employ good negotiation skills in order to encourage full involvement with screening/surveillance programmes. To be responsible for prioritising own workload within a specific geographic locality. Undertake a wide range of administrative duties in addition to record keeping, including the maintenance of stock.
The Ideal Candidate
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a good understanding of Maths, as well as the criteria listed in the job specification and most importantly the ability to communicate clearly and confidently with children from reception class upwards.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
For further information please contact: Pippa Sparks, Public health team leader, on 07976 748175 (email 'pippa.sparks@hcrgcaregroup.com) or Jane Arundell, Public health team leader on 07976 749362 (jane.arundell@hcrgcaregroup.com).
Package Description
You will feel valued as a School health Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £21,000 and access to our group pension.
- A Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- 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 the 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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