Health Needs Teaching Assistant

Health Needs Teaching Assistant

Start date:                 As soon as possible

Salary:                       Support Staff Grade 6, Points 15-20 £29,093 - £31,586 pro-rata

Hours of work:          30 hours per week/ Term Time plus one week for Inset days

Contract:                   Permanent

Closing Date:              9.00 am, Monday 21 October 2024

Under the direction of the Senior Leader of Inclusion and Wellbeing, the Health Needs TA will offer a range of in-class and/or withdrawal intervention to an individual student to support access to learning and wider school life, to enable them to reach their full potential.

The role is to support a year 7 student with their health needs in a school environment. You will be expected to monitor SATS and levels of fatigue throughout the day, and the successful candidate will need to support the child to go onto a BIPAP ventilator if needed.

The Child has central hypoventilation. This means the child’s breathing must be monitored in the day using a SATS monitor, and visual checks.

The candidate must be confident in working with a child with who has poor respiratory drive and at risk of apnoea events. In addition to this the Child may be at risk of cardiorespiratory arrest and the successful candidate will be required to support and monitor and know what first aid actions to take if required.

This role would work closely and be part of the Inclusion Department. As a school, we can offer you a wonderful staff team, delightful students and the chance to develop your own professional knowledge and expertise through ongoing training opportunities. There will be bespoke training for this role, which will be administered through the NHS, if required.

We are recruiting for a fixed term role initially however this is likely to be extended past the 12 months depending on student requirements. The hours of work will be 8.30 am to 3.20 pm Monday to Friday.

All Saints’ Academy provides an excellent education for its students. Over the past few years our results have typically been amongst the best GCSE performing non-selective secondary schools in the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury area.

Following another Good judgement, Ofsted reported:

•            All Saints’ Academy is an inclusive school.

•            Leaders and directors have been successful in improving pupils’ life chances by ensuring that they have achieved well in recent years.

•            Staff hold fast to the school’s values and ethos, which unite them in their drive to improve standards.

•            There is a clear determination to support pupils and their families to overcome barriers.

Ofsted 2018

Sponsored by the Anglican Diocese of Gloucester, we are an Academy serving at the heart of our local community. All Saints’ Academy has a Life Vision, ‘Where every member of our extended family realises their God-given potential, inspired by John 10:10. Jesus said 'I have come so you may have life in all its fullness'.

We are an inclusive Church Academy who welcomes applications from all denominations and those of none.

What we offer:

-             The Academy is in an attractive new building, within easy access to Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and the M5 with onsite parking (including electric car charge points) and catering facilities

-             Entry into the Local Government scheme

-             Free access to the onsite gym facility

-             Access to our Employee Assistance Scheme

-             Excellent CPD opportunities for career progression

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 recommendations. Successful applicants will be subject to enhanced DBS clearance.

All Saints’ Academy is committed to ensuring that all applicants and employees are given equal opportunities and that no applicants or employees are discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender reassignment, race, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, age or religion and belief.