Health Needs Teaching Assistant

All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 0WH

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  9 December 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 November 2024

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: Support Staff Grade 6, Points 15-20 £29,093 - £31,586 pro-rata

Health Needs Teaching Assistant job summary

Under the direction of the Senior Leader of Inclusion and Wellbeing, the Health Needs TA will offer a range of in-class and/or withdrawal intervention to an individual student to support access to learning and wider school life, to enable them to reach their full potential.

The role is to support a year 7 student with their health needs in a school environment. You will be expected to monitor SATS and levels of fatigue throughout the day, and the successful candidate will need to support the child to go onto a BIPAP ventilator if needed.

The Child has central hypoventilation. This means the child’s breathing must be monitored in the day using a SATS monitor, and visual checks.

The candidate must be confident in working with a child with who has poor respiratory drive and at risk of apnoea events. In addition to this the Child may be at risk of cardiorespiratory arrest and the successful candidate will be required to support and monitor and know what first aid actions to take if required.

This role would work closely and be part of the Inclusion Department. As a school, we can offer you a wonderful staff team, delightful students and the chance to develop your own professional knowledge and expertise through ongoing training opportunities. There will be bespoke training for this role, which will be administered through the NHS, if required.

We are recruiting for a fixed term role initially however this is likely to be extended past the 12 months depending on student requirements. The hours of work will be 8.30 am to 3.20 pm Monday to Friday.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1074 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham website (opens in new tab)
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