Medical Officer
Harris Academy Purley, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 6DT6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May
Closing date
27 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only; actual salary £24,673.21-£26,126.06 (38 weeks per year, 37 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,346-£31,074
Pay scale
- Grade 4 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently looking to appoint a dedicated and inspiring Medical Officer.
At Harris Academy Purley, you will join a dedicated team of teachers and staff supporting our excellent students. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- A good level of education
- Good spoken and written communication skills
- A good telephone manner
- Competent ICT skills
- Organisation skills
- The ability to keep a clean, tidy, well ordered environment
- A recognised First Aid Qualification or higher educational achievement
- Experience working in a busy office environment
- Experience working with adults and pupils
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Working at Harris Academy Purley, you will make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families in South London who value the learning and school environment we offer. Our school is oversubscribed; we have families, from a number of boroughs, who choose us for the high standard of education we provide, and staff come from across London as well as Sussex and Surrey to come and work with us.
You will be given ample opportunities to develop and progress your career, and all staff are encouraged to develop their interests and areas of expertise. Our professional development is tailored to ensure all staff are able to continue learning regardless of their role or stage of career.
We strive for excellence and have high ambitions for the future whilst ensuring we maintain a clear focus on staff wellbeing and work-life balance. Our motto: To Learn, To Think, To Act is as true for our staff as it is for our students, and we are committed to investing in your experience with us.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.
We offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
The purpose of your role will be:
- To be the first point of contact in respect of administering first aid for both students and staff within the school.
- To be the named responsible officer for all first aid matters within the Academy.
- To be responsible for managing the register of suitably qualified first aiders within the Academy, ensuring that all qualifications are valid, and developing a programme of renewals for first aid qualifications for staff.
- To ensure that there is sufficient qualified staff to assist in the administration of emergency first aid in compliance with published ratios in respect of student numbers.
- To take charge of the administration of all student medication at the Academy.
A full list of duties can be found in the Job Pack.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Academy Purley
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1033 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Purley website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrispurley.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 681 1141
Harris Academy Purley is an oversubscribed 11-19 co-educational academy with currently 1050 students on roll, situated on the Croydon/Surrey border. Open since September 2009, we are judged Outstanding by Ofsted, and moved into a state-of-the-art new building in September 2012.
We are a happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat on another with care and respect, combining traditional values of discipline and good manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. The academy’s leadership team and staff share an expectation that each and every student who joins Harris Academy Purley achieves his or her “personal best”. With an emphasis on Enterprise, the academy strives each and every day to create a culture and ethos which promotes curiosity, initiative and leadership in all our young people.
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