School Health Support Worker

NHS; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Trowbridge is looking for a School health support worker to join their team and support the Healthy Child Programme. The role involves conducting health checks for children and delivering engaging health promotion activities. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong communication skills, empathy, and the ability to work well in teams. This is a term-time only position with a salary of £24,486 - £26,115.50 pro rata and comes with various benefits including a pension and access to health and well-being resources.

Benefits

Salary £24,486 - £26,115.50 pro rata

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Online and face-to-face wellbeing support

Access to eLearning and CPD opportunities

Open culture for implementing ideas

Qualifications

• Experience working with children is preferred.
• Ability to build relationships with schools and families.
• Knowledge of health promotion activities.

Responsibilities

• Carry out checks for vision, hearing, and growth in children.
• Support the National Child Measurement Programme.
• Deliver health promotion activities for pupils.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Teamwork

Education

Relevant health or social care qualification

Job description

As a School health support worker you'll be working closely with our friendly and dedicated School Nurses, following our policies and procedures, to help deliver the Healthy Child Programme (519). Together, we well support schools, families, and children/young people, helping them to grow, learn, and thrive.

As part of Wiltshire Children's Community Services, you'll work both within our team and across partner organisations, building positive relationships and making a real difference in the community.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include:

• Carrying out vision, hearing, and growth checks for children starting school
• Supporting the National Child Measurement Programme
• Delivering engaging health promotion activities and interventions for pupils in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

This is a role where your care, patience, and enthusiasm can have a lasting impact on children's health and wellbeing.

Please note this is Term time only post and pay is pro rata.

About us

Package Description

As a School health support worker, you'll be part of our valued team based at Derby Court, BA14 0XQ.

You will feel valued as a School health support worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £24,486 - £26,115.50 Pro Rata with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.