Healthcare Assistant
Columbus School and College, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 4ZB12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Immediate Start
Closing date
2 January 2025 at 9:49am
Date listed
5 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18328.97 - £19882.68 per annum
Healthcare Assistant job summary
£18,328.97 - £19,882.68 + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Permanent, Full Time
28.58 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Immediate Start
Make a difference every day
We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our school and support students with severe, profound, and complex learning difficulties. You will be part of a dedicated team committed to providing the highest quality care and promoting the well-being of our pupils.
You will:
* Work as part of a professional team to support teachers in raising standards of student outcomes.
* Attend to the personal care needs of pupils which may include toileting, catheterization, hygiene needs, dressing, and feeding.
* Manage and support the medical needs of pupils such as administering emergency medicine and managing episodes of epilepsy.
* Build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, colleagues, parents, and carers.
In Columbus School and College
Columbus provides for pupils aged between 3 and 19 with severe and profound learning difficulties, many of which also have autism. We deliver an excellent education to pupils across two campuses with some of the highest quality learning environments in the country for pupils with special needs. We provide a broad and ambitious curriculum that is profoundly focused on preparing learners for the future. We have high expectations of learners' progress across the key areas of communication and interaction; cognition and learning; sensory, physical health and development; social, emotional and mental health; and self help and independence. Each learner has a personalised curriculum closely related to their education, health and care plan (EHCP). The curriculum is designed through collaboration with parents and carers and, as necessary, other professionals and specialists.
We want pupils to be excited about coming to school and love learning. We want them to be motivated and challenged. Most of all, we want all of our pupils to be superbly well prepared for the future. To achieve this, teaching builds precisely on what pupils already know and can do.
Discover more about our wonderful school! We warmly welcome school visits and encourage you to schedule a meeting with our principal, Mark Savage, for a friendly chat. School tours are also available upon request. To arrange a visit or tour, please contact Brooke Carr, our School Operations Manager on
Closing date : Friday 3rd January 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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.
About Columbus School and College
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Columbus School and College website (opens in new tab)
Columbus provides for pupils aged 3-19 with severe and profound learning difficulties, many of which also have autism. We deliver an excellent education to pupils across two campuses with some of the highest quality learning environments in the country for pupils with special needs.
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