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  • Job start date

    5 February 2025

  • Closing date

    3 February 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    23 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

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Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Grade 4, points 7-8 Actual salary: £21,686.76 to £22,032.61 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a passionate professional ready to build your future?

Do you want to work in a supportive environment where your skills and contributions are valued?

Join us!

At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an environment where every employee - whether in teaching, support, or leadership - can flourish. We strive to attract, develop, and retain the very best talent by creating a culture that values professional development, wellbeing, and inclusion.

Your Role in Building Brighter Futures

As a Student Welfare Officer at Wellsway School you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of Futura’s mission statement of “Building the brightest future for all, enabling every individual to flourish”. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about living our values and making a positive impact on all the young people in our Trust.

Wellsway School is a successful, high-performing 11-18 mixed comprehensive that is popular and over-subscribed, with almost 1300 students on roll. Our school has an excellent reputation locally and in the wider community for academic excellence and the quality of its pastoral care and support.

As Student Welfare Officer you will be responsible for:

  • To provide First Aid to students and staff.
  • To contact the ambulance service for the transportation of referrals to hospital for diagnosis and treatment and for medical emergencies. To accompany students to hospital if necessary.
  • To liaise with the area health authority in the organisation of appointments for screening, vision testing, medical and dental check-ups, surveys, immunisation, and vaccination programmes that take place in school.
  • To arrange appointments for the school nurse.
  • To administer medicines to students in accordance with the school policy and be responsible for all the safe storage and safe disposal of medicines and related equipment.
  • To keep school medical records for students, daily logs of referrals/injuries and action taken, review and update Individual Health Care Plans.

What You’ll Bring to Futura

The Student Welfare Officer (SWO) is responsible for the first aid arrangements in the school and the health care of students while at school. The SWO will support students with health problems, through liaison with health authority staff and other health agencies.

We are looking to appoint an appropriately qualified SWO with the skills and ability to support pupils with medical conditions. This will include administering medicines and ensuring students with medical conditions are appropriately supported so that they have full access to education, including school trips and physical education.

This post would be suitable for an individual who has knowledge and experience of working within a medical environment, ideally with children. This will be a demanding role that will require empathy, patience and the ability to work with colleagues to meet the various demands and challenges of the role. This role will be both rewarding and fulfilling by providing the opportunity to work with students to help them achieve their potential.

  • Qualifications: A nursing or medical qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.
  • Experience: in school welfare or a medical setting and have a sound understanding of Health and Safety at work.
  • Skills: excellent communication, organisational, IT, record keeping, ability to engage students and parents.
  • Demonstrates a passion for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for all members of our school community.
  • Aligns with our trust-wide values by bringing a positive, collaborative approach to their work and a willingness to continuously develop professionally.

What the school offers its staff

What We Offer to Support Your Growth

  • Professional Growth: Continuous Professional Development (CPD), inset days, rotation and secondment opportunities, and leadership succession programmes.
  • Wellbeing Support: Initiatives like ‘Wellbeing Moments,’ flexible working arrangements, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental health support.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Generous defined pension schemes, Health Cash-back Plan (covering dentist, physiotherapy appointments etc.), and multiple retail discount schemes.
  • Sustainability Commitment: Reducing our carbon footprint through our Climate and Nature initiatives across all schools.
  • Inclusive Culture: A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated, helping staff bring their best selves to work and thrive in their roles.

Application Deadline: 11.59pm on Monday 3rd February 2025.

Interviews are likely to be held soon thereafter.

PLEASE NOTE: Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement.

Futura Learning Partnership is Committed to Safeguarding:

Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your existing/most recent employer and completed by a Headteacher/appropriate senior manager/HR Lead, satisfactory pre-employment health screening, online searches and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.

Equal Opportunities:

At Futura Learning Partnership, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is treated fairly. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and are dedicated to supporting our staff to achieve their full potential.

Commitment to safeguarding

Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, satisfactory pre-employment health screening and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006’.

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About Wellsway School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1318 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

A successful, high-performing 11-18 mixed comprehensive that is popular and over-subscribed, with almost 1300 students on roll. The school is set on the east side of Keynsham, eight miles north-west of Bath and seven miles south-east of Bristol and we are fortunate to have a large, semi-rural setting with excellent transport links for students and staff. Having been part of the Wellsway Multi-Academy Trust since it was founded has already brought many benefits to the school community and a real strength of the trust is its cross phase nature, allowing us to work with leaders with a wide range of experiences and students across all the age ranges.

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