Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Special Partnership Trust; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Lampard Community School in Barnstaple, North Devon, part of The Special Partnership Trust, seeks a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Healthcare) to support pupils with medical, physical and emotional needs. The role enables access to education and requires collaboration with teachers, families and healthcare professionals.

You will administer medication and first aid, maintain health records and healthcare plans, and work to safeguard and promote inclusion while supporting staff with healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting children, particularly those with special educational needs and healthcare requirements, is essential.
• Ability to lead healthcare provision and respond effectively to medical and wellbeing needs across the school.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate healthcare provision across the school to ensure pupils' medical and wellbeing needs are met.
• Administer medication and first aid safely, accurately, and in line with school policies and statutory requirements.
• Maintain healthcare records, medical plans, medication logs, and other essential documentation.
• Work closely with families, healthcare professionals, and external agencies
• Monitor pupil wellbeing and respond appropriately to medical, physical, and emotional health concerns.
• Implement healthcare plans, risk assessments, and specialist recommendations to ensure safe and effective support.
• Manage healthcare resources, including medication storage, first aid supplies, and medical equipment.
• Provide guidance and training to staff on healthcare procedures, medical needs, and wellbeing practices.
• Promote safeguarding, inclusion, and positive outcomes by creating a safe, supportive environment where all pupils can learn and thrive.

Skills

Healthcare coordination

First aid

Medication administration

Communication

Safeguarding

Team collaboration

Tools

Medical equipment

Job description

he Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Healthcare) plays a key role in ensuring that pupils' medical, physical, emotional, and personal care needs are met so they can fully access education and achieve positive outcomes. Working closely with teachers, families, healthcare professionals, and external agencies, the postholder coordinates and delivers healthcare support across the school, maintaining a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment for all students. The role includes responsibility for administering medication and first aid, maintaining accurate health records, overseeing healthcare plans and medical procedures, monitoring student wellbeing and ensuring compliance with health, safety. In addition to healthcare responsibilities, the HLTA supports pupils' independence, personal development, inclusion, and wellbeing. The role contributes to staff development, policy implementation, multi-agency working, and the wider life of the school and Trust. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong communication and organisational skills, a commitment to safeguarding and inclusion, and the ability to work collaboratively while promoting the values and standards of the school and the Special Partnership Trust. Experience of supporting children, particularly those with special educational needs and healthcare requirements, is essential, alongside the ability to lead healthcare provision and respond effectively to medical and wellbeing needs across the school.,

• Lead and coordinate healthcare provision across the school to ensure pupils' medical and wellbeing needs are met.
• Administer medication and first aid safely, accurately, and in line with school policies and statutory requirements.
• Maintain healthcare records, medical plans, medication logs, and other essential documentation.
• Work closely with families, healthcare professionals, and external agencies
• Monitor pupil wellbeing and respond appropriately to medical, physical, and emotional health concerns.
• Implement healthcare plans, risk assessments, and specialist recommendations to ensure safe and effective support.
• Manage healthcare resources, including medication storage, first aid supplies, and medical equipment.
• Provide guidance and training to staff on healthcare procedures, medical needs, and wellbeing practices.
• Promote safeguarding, inclusion, and positive outcomes by creating a safe, supportive environment where all pupils can learn and thrive.

Our Total Reward Offer:

The Special Partnership Trust recognises the importance of developing a properly implemented People Strategy to underpin the overall strategic aims of the Trust. Our People Strategy is designed to help us attract prospective high calibre candidates, as well as drive engagement, productivity and retention of our high performing and high potential employees. It reflects our belief in putting our people first. This does not mean putting our learners second. It is based on the philosophy that if we create a positive and rewarding work environment, if our staff feel motivated, well managed and well supported, they in turn will provide the best possible outcome for our learners.

Lampard Community School is a special school in Barnstaple, North Devon. We educate children aged 5-16 with complex learning difficulties, all of whom have speech, language, communication and interaction needs (SLCN) and are working significantly below age related expectations. We are part of The Special Partnership Trust. All of our students have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

We recognise that our total reward offer, has got to consist of more than just money. We seek to provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include generous leave entitlements and pension scheme as well as access to health/wellbeing tools, training & development, career pathways and opportunities to ensure they feel valued.