Welfare Officer

Description:

Welfare Officer

Hounslow

The Role :

Provide emergency first aid, medical support for students, and oversee the medical room, communicating with staff, parents/carers, and ambulance services as needed.
Track, monitor, evaluate accidents and illnesses, ensuring accurate and up-to-date reporting.
Maintain current welfare practices, student healthcare plans, and training.
Ensure that medical supplies are well-stocked and up-to-date.
Provide administrative support for staff and reception as necessary.
Attend to students brought to the medical room appropriately.
Efficiently log accidents and illnesses.
Assist with the completion of Health Care plans.
Assist in completing medical lists for Educational Visits.
Follow first aid procedures, risk assessment, and record-keeping protocols.
Assist in ensuring processed permissions for medical issues/conditions.
Communicate medical issues to relevant staff, agencies, parents/carers.
Support staff at either school site with medical issues.
Assist in ensuring compliance with procedures for medicines/epipens, etc.
Assist in stock-taking and ordering.
Help develop systems for student welfare.
Manage and liaise with the school immunization service to ensure smooth immunization administration.
Be vigilant regarding safeguarding issues and report them according to school procedures.
Undergo regular training and self-assess training needs.
Liaise with job share colleague to maintain effective information exchange and up-to-date records.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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