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Health and Personal Care Assistant
Brackenfield Special School, Nottingham, Derbyshire, NG10 4DA18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2025
Closing date
1 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week Monday - Friday 39 Weeks a year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 25183
What skills and experience we're looking for
Typical Tasks:
- Working in the school to support health, first aid and intimate care needs
- Implement and deliver programmes to progress independent living skills
- Deliver information to staff, parents and any other relevant parties
Typical Knowledge,
Skills & Experience
- Typically Level 2 qualification and practical knowledge and experience in relevant environment
- Ability to employ practical, technical skills and experience.
- Knowledge of school policies and procedures including, Safeguarding, Health & Safety, Management of Health Needs and Medication
Additional Work Elements
- May be physical effort in standing, lifting and carrying
- May regularly work with children and young people who have behavioural issues
- May have to physically intervene with children and young people who exhibit violent or aggressive behaviour
What the school offers its staff
As a school we meet the needs of children from our local community and surrounding areas, with complex learning, communication and physical needs. Pupils attend the school from Derbyshire, Derby City and Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City, Leicestershire and Rutland local authorities.
Brackenfield is an oversubscribed South Derbyshire special school for children from 3-19 years old. Over the last 9 years we have streamlined our offer to become a specialist school for pupils with severe and complex learning needs and we have a growing population of children with profound and multiple learning needs and disabilities. All our pupils are significantly cognitively impaired operating developmentally between 0 – 6 years of age. We support pupils’ learning and journey into adulthood through a curriculum based on life skills and skill generalisation. The school benefits from a dedicated Children’s Services Team which oversees safeguarding and family support, a Health Care Team, which support the medical and care needs of our pupils and a Therapies Team, including onsite Speech and Language Therapists (SALTs) and Occupational Therapists (OTs) which support with assessment and interventions. These teams work with our highly skilled teaching team to shape the provision around our young people.
Brackenfield was last inspected November 2024 by Ofsted in a graded inspection. Inspection findings showed that Brackenfield SEND school is Outstanding in all 5 areas of the Education Inspection Framework. Please read out latest Ofsted report https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/113031
Our vision is to support our pupils to reach their potential and become functionally and emotionally literate young adults. Through a curriculum with functional life skills at its core, we are developing our pupils to become young adults who can safely navigate and contribute to society- with independence appropriate to their needs. We are fully committed to the safeguarding of all pupils, this is embedded through all aspects of school life, with strong home-school links. We are committed to developing pupil voice to enable our students to make positive choices, share their opinions and preferences whilst demonstrating an understanding of British Values. We have strong belief and ethos of character education, which is used to support our pupils development a self-recognition of character, alongside providing a curriculum that is ambitious and designed to give our young people the knowledge, self-belief and cultural capital they need to succeed and be happy in life. Pupils leave Brackenfield being the best version of themselves. We work with pupils and families to ensure that pupils are happy, safe and reach their potential during their time with us.
Commitment to safeguarding
Brackenfield School is committed to the safeguarding of all children.
Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Brackenfield SEND School is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, preventing unlawful discrimination in all of its activities and to valuing diversity.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Brackenfield Special School
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 18
- School size
- 175 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Brackenfield Special School website
- Email address
- hr@brackenfield.derbyshire.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01159733710
Brackenfield is an oversubscribed South Derbyshire special school for children from 3-16 years old. Over the last 4 years we have streamlined our offer to become a specialist school for pupils with communication and comprehension difficulties and we have a growing population of children with complex physical needs. All our pupils are significantly cognitively impaired operating developmentally between 0 – 6 years of age.
Arranging a visit to Brackenfield Special School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@brackenfield.derbyshire.sch.uk.
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