Medical Safeguarding Officer
Admiral Lord Nelson School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 5XTThis job expired on 10 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Term time: 37 hours, 41 weeks per year (term time plus 2 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Band 5 (24,362 - £26,073 fte)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Purposes:
- To lead and deliver the School’s Medical Room provision ensuring full compliance with all relevant legislation and best practice guidelines.
- To quality assure all medical and first aid provision by staff, commissioning training as needed.
- To provide support and guidance for all students with additional Medical needs
- To provide advice, guidance and training for staff to enable them to meet the needs of students with medical needs.
- To support the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) on all safeguarding matters related to Medical issues, liaising with outside agencies as required.
- To ensure internal monitoring records (CPOMS) are accurate and up to date
- To represent the school at external safeguarding and other outside agency meetings, as required, taking the role of lead professional where appropriate.
Accountabilities:
1. To staff the Medical Room daily and ensure staff who provide cover are appropriately trained and supported.
2. To be responsible for the operating procedures of the Medical Room ensuring that these documents are kept up-to-date; for monitoring Medical Room staffing to ensure compliance with regulations and procedures and for ensuring that the Medical Room and whole school is appropriately stocked and resourced.
3. To be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate and timely record keeping and tracking of all medical interventions.
4. To oversee the provision of emergency medical aid training for staff, ensuring all staff have basic first aid training that is regularly updated.
5. To maintain Accident Reporting Records for all Accidents at Work, reporting to the HR Manager and Executive Headteacher urgently whenever a serious incident occurs.
What the school offers its staff
Thank you for your interest in working here at Admiral Lord Nelson School. 98% of staff would recommend working at Admiral Lord Nelson School to a colleague looking for a new position. (February 2023 survey).
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our Safeguarding Team. Exceptional interpersonal skills, attention to detail, a solution focussed approach, high levels of initiative, flexibility, the ability to multitask and work under pressure, whilst maintaining confidentiality are a must for this role.
Reporting to the Inclusion Manager, the Medical Safeguarding Officer takes on the daily running of the medical room and plays a pivotal role in supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) on all safeguarding matters related to Medical issues, liaising with outside agencies as required.
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff is motivated by the positive difference they will make to the personal development and the futures of our young people of Portsmouth. It was formed when Admiral Lord Nelson School became an academy in April 2014 with Trafalgar School, which is now our thriving partner Secondary School in Portsmouth.
We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, we have a deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School. This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations.
You will be working with our students offering them medical care and support, along with sometimes simply a listening ear so bucketloads of patience and a good sense of humour is a must. In return you would be joining a safeguarding team who work hard but find time to support each other too!
If you are interested in joining our amazing team of staff, we’d love to hear from you. Informal visits from those who are interested in finding out more about the role are welcomed.
Admiral Lord Nelson School Employee Benefits:
- Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
- Employer contribution to the Local Government or Teacher Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to sign up to the bike2work scheme
- Free parking
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.
About Admiral Lord Nelson School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1173 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Admiral Lord Nelson School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@alns.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02392364536
Always oversubscribed, we are expanding our school so that more local families can experience the excellent education offered here at Admiral Lord Nelson School for over two decades! Therefore, we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Science teacher who works well in a team. We are looking for a specialist with strong subject knowledge, who quickly builds relationships with students and breaks down barriers to learning. We want a teacher who inspires children to achieve their potential and loves to see their students experiencing the joy of success every day in their learning!
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff understands the difference they can make to our students’ outcomes, both academically and to their personal development. Our commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School is at the heart of our inclusive ethos and curriculum, with mutually respectful relationships forming the foundation of our happy, successful school. At Admiral Lord Nelson School, we work collegiately with our partner school, Trafalgar School in the pursuit of excellence in Science education so that we are significantly improving the life chances of all of our young people in Portsmouth.
We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, having a very high Ebacc entry. Our deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School led to us being the only school invited to a garden party with all the Soccer Aid celebrities hosted by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and we have recently been reaccredited with UNICEF RRS Gold Award status in recognition of our ambassadorial work. We are equally passionate about promoting creativity across all aspects of our curriculum, for which we were the first school in England to hold a Triple Artsmark Platinum Award and were designated the TES Creative School of the Year for 2019. This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations; we really do value our staff and place the voice of our incredible students at the heart of all we do!
Arranging a visit to Admiral Lord Nelson School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@alns.co.uk.
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