Health Care Assistant

Danecourt School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6AA

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  11 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  17 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185.00 - £28,142.00 Annually (FTE) D2 point 4 - 11 + SEN allowance of £1,519 per annum + SEN Allowance £1539 (Actual Salary)

Health Care Assistant job summary

Join Danecout School as a Health Care Assistant!
Care. Support. Empower - make a daily difference in children’s lives

Hours: 32.5 hours per week Mon - Fri 8.45 am - 4 pm (there is flexibility with this) Contract: Permanent Term Time Only: 39 weeks per year Start Date: ASAP Actual Salary: Grade D2 - points 4 - 11 (£18,356.81 - £20878.91) + SEN Allowance £1539 (Actual Salary)

A Career with Purpose

Are you looking for a fulfilling career where you can make a real difference in a young person's life every day?

Danecourt is a special school dedicated to providing exceptional education and care for children with complex and diverse needs. We are currently seeking a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our team.

In this vital role, you'll provide essential medical and personal care to our students, ensuring their well-being and enabling them to thrive in a safe and supportive environment. This is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to become a key part of our school community and to help our students reach their full potential.

What you'll do:

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will play a vital role in our school community. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting pupils with medical conditions so they can fully access learning and enrichment opportunities.

• Administering medicine and providing personal care, feeding, and toileting support where required.

• Managing and maintaining pupils’ healthcare plans, ensuring training and documentation are always up to date.

• Monitoring pupil wellbeing, observing and reporting any changes to senior staff.

• Coordinating First Aid across the school, ensuring resources and records are maintained.

• Building positive relationships with parents, carers, and external health professionals.

• Providing pastoral care, reassurance, and support for pupils who are ill, upset, or injured.

• Ensuring safe and inclusive participation in school trips, swimming lessons, clubs, and wider opportunities.

• Contributing to safeguarding, behaviour, and inclusion policies to uphold the highest standards of care

Who You Are:

We are looking for someone who is:

• Caring, empathetic, and committed to supporting children’s health and wellbeing

• Experienced in a healthcare, school, or caregiving setting (experience with SEND children is desirable).

• Skilled at working as part of a team and building trust with families and professionals.

• Confident in managing sensitive medical situations calmly and professionally.

• Organised, proactive, and willing to undertake training to meet pupils’ medical needs.

• Ideally holds a relevant qualification (e.g., NVQ Level 2/3 in Health & Social Care), though full training will be provided.

What We Offer

Danecourt offers a welcoming and inclusive environment where support staff are valued as key members of the team. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we offer meaningful career opportunities, collaborative working, and the chance to help pupils with SEND thrive.

Here’s what you can expect:

• A supportive, team-based culture, where collaboration is key across classrooms and satellite provisions

• Meaningful Impact, unlike a traditional healthcare role, being part of the Danecourt team means directly supporting children’s health needs within a school setting. You’ll see the immediate difference your care makes every day — whether it’s enabling a child to join a lesson, take part in a trip, or simply feel safe and supported at school.

• Work-Life Balance role, with a term time only role you’ll benefit from the same school holiday schedule, giving you more time to focus on your well-being and enjoy a healthy work-life balance

• Ongoing CPD and training tailored to your role and future career goals

• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and employee wellbeing support

• Join a school that is proud to be the Winner of the Primary Special School Provision category at the Medway Parents and Carers Forum SEND Awards.

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Danecourt so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 232589 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Danecourt School and the Maritime Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity, striving to build a team that reflects a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. The more inclusive we are, the stronger we become. All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with the latest safeguarding guidance.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Danecourt School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 257 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Danecourt School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/danecourt-school

Danecourt is a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The school caters for children with a wide breadth of need including complex learning difficulties, autism and social emotional mental health needs.

At Danecourt our mission is to provide all pupils with a “stimulating learning environment that allows children to explore through a personalised curriculum to become STARS!

Self reliant Team Player Aspirational Resilient Successful

The highly trained staff teams maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all achieve their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils needs and as a result, they make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

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