Medical Welfare Officer
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Monday 10th November 2025
Closing date
15 October 2025 at 1pm
Date listed
7 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,334.00 - £32,906.00 Annually (FTE) AS 15-20 FTE £30,334 - £32,906 pro rata £26,324-£28,556
Medical Welfare Officer job summary
Medical Welfare Officer
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed Medical Welfare Officer who is experienced in providing first aid and medical support. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of how to appropriately identify and treat minor medical issues and have a full First Aid at Work certificate or a willingness to train immediately on appointment. They will be a resilient team player with excellent inter-personal skills, a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use their own initiative.
At Houstone, our values of Integrity, Ambition, Excellence are underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our staff enjoy their roles with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
Key Duties:
Act as main First Aider and coordinate support from other First Aiders.
Provide medical support in line with school policies
Administer medication to pupils (incl. prescribed)
Liaison with home, the emergency services, other staff and outside agencies as appropriate
To meet with parents regarding Access Arrangements medical needs and liaise with SEN. Team and Exams officers.
Work with parents of pupils with health concerns - support to ensure appropriate attendance at lessons and continuance with learning, whilst providing the relevant care
Ensuring that young people with social, emotional and behavioural needs are supported or sign posted
Ensure Health Care Plans are in place and PEEPs have been carried out.
Record attendance to the medical room on the school’s database and identify patterns.
Produce data to discuss with the School Leadership Team showing patterns, areas of concerns and areas for improvement
Ensure all first-aid kits are prepared for use during all school activities
Co-ordinate vaccination days and liaise with health professionals.
Monthly Audits, and process orders for medical room stock.
Further duties are detailed within the Recruitment Booklet
The ideal candidate will have:
Experience of working in a school environment.
A full First Aid at Work certificate or willingness to train immediately on appointment.
Knowledge of how to appropriately identify and treat minor medical issues
English and Maths at GCSE grade A-C or equivalent
ICT skills with experience of using Microsoft Office and databases.
Excellent interpersonal skills, drive, energy and vision
A resilient character with a flexible approach to work
An understanding of Safeguarding, Confidentiality and data protection
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: Monday 10th November or asap following this date
Salary: AS 15-20 FTE £30,334 - £32,906 actual pro rata salary £26,324-£28,556
Job role: Permanent, Full time, Term time + 5 INSET days, 39 weeks, 37 hours per week
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
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 Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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