Student Support & Medical Care Officer
The Blue Coat CofE School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 3SQ4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
12 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Term time: n/a
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 4 SCP 12 - 17, £29,542 - £32,046 per annum (Pro-rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a caring, dedicated and professional individual to join our supportive Achievement for All team, providing high-quality medical, first aid, mental wellbeing and pastoral support to students across the school.
This is an important and rewarding role at the heart of our school community. You will help ensure that students feel safe, supported and ready to learn, providing the right care when they need it while helping to minimise time spent away from the classroom.
The role will include providing first aid and medical support to students, as well as general first aid assistance to staff. You will work closely with colleagues in the Attendance and Welfare Team and senior leaders, supporting students with medical needs and concerns and contributing to the school's work to promote good attendance.
We are looking for a candidate who:
- Is compassionate, organised, approachable and calm
- Has a genuine commitment to supporting young people and their wellbeing
- Can communicate confidently, sensitively and professionally with students, colleagues and families
- Can respond calmly and appropriately to a varied range of situations throughout the school day
- Is able to work effectively under pressure, using initiative and sound judgement
- Can self-motivate, plan and prioritise workloads effectively
- Is able to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a supportive team
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity for someone who is passionate about making a positive difference to the health, wellbeing and education of young people.
The successful candidate will be expected to start as soon as possible.
What the school offers its staff
Working for The Blue Coat School means that you would be part of the Cranmer Education Trust, a successful, growing Trust which prides itself on looking after its people, offering a high level of support and access to expertise. This is an excellent time to join the team, as we develop collaborative structures and systems to enhance and support our growing family of schools.
There are 10 schools in our trust, both primary and secondary schools, across Oldham and Rochdale. The trust also incorporates a teacher training school and the East Manchester Teaching Hub, which support the training and development of new and existing teachers across the North West of England.
We offer:
- Opportunities for professional development in a growing Trust
- A strong school community that places children, families and staff at the heart of everything we do.
- A supportive team who will work with and alongside you to achieve the very best
- LGPS career average pension scheme including life insurance and dependent's pension
- Central Oldham location close to good transport networks
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Blue Coat School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
For further information please refer to:
The Cranmer Education Trust’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy:
Trust Policies | Cranmer Education Trust
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Blue Coat CofE School
- Organisation type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1702 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- hr@blue-coat.org
- Phone number
- 0161 624 1484
We are very proud of our school, which attracts students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. It first opened in 1834. Our founder, Thomas Henshaw, was a committed Anglican who left a bequest to fund a school which would provide education for the orphaned boys of the parish.
From these humble beginnings, the Blue Coat School has become one of the biggest and most successful schools in the country. The school has a national reputation for high quality teaching and learning, pastoral care, consistently excellent examination results and outstanding progress. Our most recent OFSTED inspection in 2011/2 judged the school to be outstanding in every category. As a result, Blue Coat has been designated a National Teaching School which means that we work with schools nationally and locally to develop the very best educational provision. Blue Coat is grounded in tradition and history, and is evolving and forward looking. Our historic campus has been restored and developed extensively; our students enjoy picnic lunches in front of a Grade II listed building but their learning takes place in superb 21st century classrooms, laboratories and studios.
Blue Coat is dedicated to serving young people, to enable them to become everything they can be and everything that they are meant to be. We are a Church of England school that welcomes members of other Christian denominations, and of other faiths.
Our Anglican beliefs, values and worship are at the core of our life together in school.
Arranging a visit to The Blue Coat CofE School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@blue-coat.org.
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