School Welfare Officer

Role - School Welfare Officer

Contract type - Full time

Location - Watford WD18 6NS

Salary - £28,642 - £31,067 per annum

In a Watford primary school, one of our partner schools is now looking for an experienced Welfare Officer. Candidates must have prior work experience in a similar capacity in an educational institution because they will be expected to start working right away and produce excellent work in a fast-paced setting.

Welfare and First aid responsibilities:

• Promoting and managing the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of students
• Ensuring that Students are attended to promptly.
• Administering first aid and care to Students referred to by staff or self-referred until they are able to return to lessons or are passed into the care of a parent, guardian, doctor, hospital, etc.
• Accurately recording all visits.
• To be responsible for writing and reviewing medical healthcare plans for Students with health needs, and sharing these appropriately.
• To be responsible for writing, reviewing and updating welfare and first aid related school policies.
• Supporting Students with medical issues, Students' adolescent physical health and emotional wellbeing and working with the Inclusion Team accordingly.
• Organising school health immunisation programmes.
• Being available to staff leading school trips to offer information regarding individual Students and their medication, and supplying First Aid kits for trips.
• Ensuring First Aid kits around school are monitored and restocked.
• Providing basic First Aid knowledge to staff at the start of the academic year and informing staff of procedures if faced with medical emergencies such as the more serious medical conditions they may encounter.
• Arranging for First Aiders to be appropriately trained.
• Being responsible for the welfare and the first aid budget.
• Maintenance of the School First Aid room as an attractive, hygienic room, suitably equipped for serving the medical needs of the Students and staff.
• To provide appropriate and time-specific health and wellbeing information to Students

Communication and record keeping:

• To ensure effective information sharing.
• Making contact with parents as appropriate, ensuring that thorough records are kept of the conversations and any action taken.
• Liaising with the relevant member of staff, Form Tutor, Head of Year, Senior Leadership, on issues which arise through the care of Students in the First Aid Room.
• Attend and participate in support staff meetings and share skills with others.
• Completion of accident reports and passing them to Senior Leadership as required.
• Updating medical records on the school database and liaising with parents as necessary if further information is needed.
• Liaising with local public health teams regarding immunisations and any other medical matters which the school needs to act upon.
• Ensuring that while medical and personal confidentiality is respected the school observes a "joined up" approach in the care of the Students.
• Having an overview of welfare across the Academy and spotting patterns or trends with individual Students or groups in conjunction with the Inclusion Team.
• Updating the medical records, stock book and keeping Students' medical supplies up to date (epipens, inhalers, etc).
• Carrying out regular First aid stock takes and replenishing stocks.

These are some of the requirements that we need from you:

• Enhanced child DBS on the update service or willingness to get one
• Experience working with children or young people with additional care needs
• 2 recent professional references
• Experience with behaviours that are challenging
• A calm & caring personality
• A strong and resilient personality and be committed to pupils development
• Reading, writing, numeracy and communication skills
• Team Teach trained - or willing to attend training

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