Medical Needs Support Assistant

Cringleford CE VA Primary School
Dragonfly Lane
Cringleford
Norwich
NR4 7JR

Tel:  01603 454946
Email:  [email protected]  
Website:  www.cringleford.norfolk.sch.uk  

• Salary – Grade D5 £12.18 per hour
• Fixed term until 31 August 2024
• Part Time
• 20 hours per week
• Term Time plus 1 week

Cringleford C of E VA Primary School is a happy, thriving school where children develop and learn confidently in a stable and nurturing environment. 

We are looking to appoint a Medical Needs Support Assistant to deal with illness and injury among pupils and to liaise with external agencies, parents and families.  The successful applicant will also be responsible for ensuring medical conditions of pupils are well managed in school. The role will start as soon as possible and will initially be a temporary role until August 2024; there may be a possibility of this being extended in the future.  Hours of work, 10am to 2pm Monday to Friday.

We are looking for a candidate who:

• can form positive relationships with children, parents and staff 
• has a calm, patient approach to supporting the needs of children 
• is able to work independently
• is adaptable to situations and willing to work as part of a team 
• has good literacy / numeracy skills and able to communicate well with supporting professionals
• is an effective team member who is flexible and able to work closely with colleagues
• is an excellent role model.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Supporting individual pupils in the management of their medical conditions eg monitoring blood sugar levels of children with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Responding to referral of pupils with illness or injury including accidents and emergencies, taking appropriate action ensuring that pupils are referred quickly and efficiently i.e. 999, taking pupil to A&E where necessary, administering medication/treatment and liaising with parents.
• Completing records of accidents and injuries to staff and students maintaining records for at least 10 years, listing pupil/staff incident, location, treatment and outcome.
• Ensuring medical room is clean and ready for use.
• Keeping paper records of pupils with medical conditions ie care plans, and administering medication as appropriate, dissemination of information and pupil care plans to appropriate staff, maintaining records for 10 years. Giving advice to teaching and non-teaching staff on the care of pupils with medical conditions.
• Arrange training as necessary to ensure teachers aware of how to treat certain emergency medical conditions whilst on school trips ie asthma attacks, allergic reaction etc ensuring teachers fully supported in their role and aware of how to treat certain conditions. Arrange training for staff as required for example in the use of epi-pen for severe allergy attacks.
• Host parent sessions re sleep, diet etc
• Maintaining medical supplies for first aid in school and for school trips, liaising with outside organisations, ordering on line ensuring stocks adequately maintained and available at short notice.
• Maintaining medical information file for all staff use.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact the Head, Mrs Julia Humphrey.

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How to apply

A job description is available from ‘Attachments’.

To download an application form, please select the orange ‘Apply for job’ button and enter your details.

Completed forms should be returned to – [email protected]  

Closing date:               2 February 2024    (advert may close earlier if/when sufficient candidates apply)
Interview date:              TBC

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.