Student Welfare Officer
Wellsway School, Bristol, BS31 1PH4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Actual salary - £21,686.76 to £22,032.61
What skills and experience we're looking for
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.
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
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wellsway School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- nstachura@futuralearning.co.uk
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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