Purpose:

To assist all students on the secondary school site by providing first aid facilities/treatment.  You must hold a first aid qualification.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

·        To provide an effective first aid service to all students on the secondary school site.

·        To liaise and coordinate first aid incidences with staff and be contact for emergency services when required.

·        To act as a designated first aider in order to ensure Sydney Russell School meets it legal requirements under the Health & Safety at Work act.

·        To coordinate the running, cleaning and provision of the first aid room and its facilities.

·        To ensure at all times that you operate to the highest standards of care and patience with all students. 

·        To attend appropriate training when required and ensure you hold a valid appropriate first aid qualification whilst working as part of the first aid support.

·        To always work within Health & Safety guidelines.

·        To ensure accurate and appropriate recordings of all first aid cases treated.

·        To make entries onto Medical Tracker software

·        To ensure all reports regarding first aid incidences are completed.

·        To ensure that the first aid supplies are kept fully stocked and stock shortages reported to the School Business Leader as a matter of urgency.

·        To provide welfare to students in distress/suffering from illness or injury and provide advice and support.

·        To ensure and assist with the safe transfer of patients to home or hospital as appropriate.

·        To attend regular team meetings.

·        To check all medication each term and dispose of out of date medication, and any medication expiring to contact all parents/carers to inform them.

All staff are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students by always ensuring compliance with the school’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All staff must report any actual or potential risks to the safety or welfare of students to the Designated Safeguarding Lead.

REVIEW ARRANGEMENTS

The details contained in this job description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared.  It should be remembered, however, that over time the nature of individual jobs will change, existing duties may no longer be required and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the duties or the level of the responsibility entailed. All staff are required to undertake whatever else may reasonably be requested by the Principal in support of the Aims of the School. Job Descriptions are subject to annual review.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The above responsibilities are subject to the general duties and responsibilities contained in the written statement of conditions of employment (The contract).  The post holder is required to support and encourage the school’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures as agreed by the governing body:

·        To uphold the school’s policy in respect of child protection matters

·        Will be subject to the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service, supplemented by local conditions as appropriate and all relevant statutory and institutional requirements

·        The post holder may be required to perform any other reasonable tasks after consultation

·        This Job Description allocates duties and responsibilities but does not direct the particular amount of time to be spent on carrying them out and no part of it may be so constructed

·        This Job Description is not necessarily a comprehensive definition of the post.  It may be subject to modification at any time after consultation with the post holder

·        All staff will be expected to participate in the school’s performance management scheme.