Healthcare Assistant
Twydall Primary School and Nursery, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6JS13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
1 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,944.00 - £21,169.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade D2 Point 4-11
Healthcare Assistant job summary
We are seeking to appoint a one year fixed term Healthcare Assistant at Twydall Primary School for 32.5 hours, 39 weeks per year (Term Time plus 5 days). This is a new role and will involve providing high-quality personal care and support to pupils with special education needs, ensuring their comfort, dignity, and independence. The successful candidate will foster positive, trusting relationships with pupils, promoting their confidence, wellbeing, and engagement in school life.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide personal care to pupils with special educational needs, including assistance with toileting, changing, and hygiene routines;
- Maintain pupils’ dignity, privacy, and comfort at all times while supporting independence wherever possible;
- Provide additional physical support as required, such as help with mobility, manual handling or feeding;
- Ensure personal care areas, equipment, and materials are kept clean, safe, and well maintained;
- Monitor and replenish toileting and hygiene supplies as needed;
- Keep accurate records of care and hygiene routines in collaboration with the class teacher and Inclusion Manager.
Requirements:
- Experience of working with children with SEN including physical difficulties would be advantageous
- Understanding of children with different behavioural needs
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Possess a desire to help all children achieve their best
- Have a caring nature and a deep regard for children
- Enthusiastic, energetic and adaptable
- Excellent communication skills
Twydall Primary School:
We are an inclusive and caring school based in Gillingham, Kent which is part of Rainham Mark Education Trust. Along with a talented and dedicated team of staff, we strive to ensure children at Twydall are happy, cared for and are at the heart of everything we do and we received a “Good” in all areas Ofsted Inspection in May 2023. Our Trust values of CHARACTER (Curiosity, Happiness, Aspiration, Respect, Articulacy, Community, Teamwork, Equality, Resilience) are woven through our school, ensuring children develop these values during their time with us.
A visit to the school is highly recommended, please call 01634 231761 to make an appointment.
Benefits of Working for Rainham Mark Education Trust:
- Free Private Healthcare Cover - Benenden Healthcare (on contracts over 15 hours per week)
- Free Health Checks
- Free Flu Jabs
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- High quality CPD opportunities
- Discounted gym membership at Avenue Tennis, Gillingham
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Onsite free parking
- A Trust committed to achieving a healthy work/life balance
If you would like to be considered for the post, please apply via My New Term.
Closing date: Monday 1st December 2025
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interview date: TBC
This vacancy will close on or before the specified closing date depending on the volume of suitable applicants. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short listed on this occasion. We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Twydall Primary School and Nursery
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 264 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Twydall Primary School and Nursery website
Welcome to Twydall Primary School and Nursery, part of the RMET (Rainham Mark Education Trust) family of Schools.
"A nurturing school at the heart of its community"
Care, Courtesy, Commitment and Consideration in our Community
RMET Vision
A family of local schools working together to provide outstanding pastoral care and inspirational teaching, motivating all students to enjoy learning and achieve their potential within a community founded on mutual respect,
External verification clearly highlights Twydall Primary is rapidly moving forward on our journey to be rightly recognised as being a ‘Good’ school by Ofsted.
All our work is underpinned by our highly qualified, dedicated and innovative specialist staff. Our curriculum intent is to increase each child’s cultural capital through:
Recognising children’s prior learning.
Providing a specialist based teaching, which offers rich learning experiences connected through the skills of reading.
Developing interpersonal skills, resilience, intellectual curiosity
Stretch, challenge and inspire.
Developing a sense of passion and knowledge of their local area and communities.
Experiencing the joy of learning through challenging enrichment opportunities.
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