Health Care Assistant - Full-time

Shenstone School, Crayford

• Ref:KCC303-7001-111S
• Posted:18/04/2024
• Pay:Bexley 7 (£16.00 per hour)
• Start Date:1st September 2024
• App Close Date:12/05/2024 at 23:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Shenstone School is expanding! We are ambitious for all of our amazing staff and students, and we need more people to join us on the next chapter of our journey.

We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic and highly organised person to join Shenstone School as a Health Care Assistant.  The successful candidate will work alongside classroom staff, managing the medical needs of the pupils.  You must be able to work on your own initiative, have good communication skills, be self/driven and have excellent attention to detail.

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience of supporting children with medical needs in a school environment.
• A NCFE CACHE Health Care qualification (or equivalent) would be desirable.
• Relevant First Aid qualification (or willingness to obtain and maintain this).
• Willingness to attend/undertake and maintain relevant training.
• The ability to respond and communicate with children.

If you are looking for a challenge and are able to support and encourage our amazing pupils with SEND to achieve their full potential in our specialist school setting, then we would welcome your application.  The achievements of our pupils are extraordinary and will give you a sense of achievement when they make progress, however small.

It is paramount that you feel confident and resilient in working with pupils with challenging behaviour.   As individuals, each pupil presents with different abilities and behavioural needs which vary from child to child. 

Information about the school

Shenstone School is an all-through school for children with severe or complex learning difficulties within the London Borough of Bexley. All pupils who attend Shenstone School have Education and Health Care Plans. We are one of two special schools within The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT).

Shenstone School is based across three sites: Sidcup, Crayford, and Belvedere. We will introduce a new secondary year group every year. By 2029-2030, Shenstone will accommodate children aged 3 -19 across our three school sites.

Every child is an individual, and as such, we diligently work as a school team and with wider multi-agency support teams to ensure that our curriculum delivery recognises this individual support, supporting each child with their life-long learning journey.

Paramount to our ethos is the belief in “support for all”, which ensures that engagement with the pupils, their families, and our staff team is at the heart of all we strive to achieve. We work hard to ensure that Shenstone is a safe, happy, welcoming, and truly outstanding place where our pupils will thrive. Our school benefits from impressive facilities across all school sites, enabling us to offer a wide range of opportunities and activities to enhance learning both inside and outside the classroom.

Our pupils are amazing, and their progress is inspiring. Regardless of how big or small their successes are, we are very proud of the children and pleased to contribute to and support their achievements. The values and ethos of "together we engage, thrive, and achieve" are entwined through all that we do at Shenstone School.

Staff at Shenstone School can access the following benefits: excellent induction and probation processes, comprehensive in-house training, competitive pension scheme, employee counselling services, vaccination programmes, on-site mental health first aid team and various other well-being and social activities.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Georgia Bissett
• Address:94 Old Road, Crayford, Kent, DA1 4DZ
• Telephone: 01322 524145
• Email: hr@shenstone-tkat.org