The Role
The Healthcare Assistant will be based in the College’s Medical Centre and will work under the direction of the Lead Nurse in attending to in-patients as required and will be available to respond to any situations where it is considered that a boy or member of staff needs urgent and/or unscheduled medical treatment; for example, administering first aid on the sports field. The HCA will be expected to accompany boys to A&E (or other appropriate medical facility) in his/her own car or accompany him in an Ambulance as appropriate. The College will reimburse expenses according to the published policy and claims should be submitted monthly.
Responsibilities
You must have experience working in a hospital, and with children and young people. You should also be qualified to NVQ level 2 or 3. The postholder will be required to undertake first aid training. The list below outlines the Healthcare Assistant’s main duties:
Terms of Service
Start date
As soon as possible.
Hours of Work
This is a term time only position working 35.5 weeks of the year, 15 hours per week with the following working hours:
Tuesday: 14.00 - 19.00pm
Thursday: 14.00 - 19.00pm
Saturday: 14.00 - 19.00-pm
Salary
The salary for this term-time only position is £8,715.13/£21,010.43 (FTE). The hourly rate is £10.23.
The annual salary would be is paid monthly, in arrears, to a nominated bank account in 12 equal payments. Salary levels are reviewed on 1 September annually and this appointment will next be reviewed in September 2022.
Holidays
This is a term-time only position, with the successful candidate benefitting from school holidays.
Probation and Notice Periods
The first four working months of employment will be a probationary period. During this period conduct and performance will be reviewed. The College may extend the probationary period if it is deemed to be required. During the probationary period the notice required to terminate employment will be one week (by either the employee or employer). The notice period will increase to one month upon the successful completion of the probationary period.
Pension and Life Cover
On employment, employees will be auto-enrolled into the College’s pension scheme according to legislative thresholds. Those who are not eligible for auto-enrolment may still elect to join the College’s pension scheme.
Initially, when joining the College’s pension scheme, employees will become a member of the College’s Group Personal Pension Plan (GPP). For this Plan, known as Tier 1, the employee contributes 4% and the employer 4%.
After 9 month’s membership of the Tier 1 plan employees may opt to join Tier 2, which is also a Group Personal Pension Plan and the contributions are 5% from the employee and a 9% contribution from the College.
Employees in Tier 1 automatically qualify for a Life Cover of 2 times salary. On entry to Tier 2 Life Cover changes to 4 times salary.
Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check
Winchester College is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children at the school. Therefore, this appointment will be subject to a successful Enhanced Disclosure Barring check. This will provide details of convictions, reprimands, warnings, cautions and bind overs as per the DBS filtering guidance. A policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders, and information about DBS filtering, is available upon request from the HR Department if required. The college may approach previous employers to seek verification, in addition to obtaining references provided by the candidate.
Data Protection Statement
Winchester College collects and processes relevant personal data as part of its everyday operations and is obliged to process it in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.
The school is the Data Controller of this data under the Act and is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office; its registration number is Z5751669.
Any queries about this policy or how personal data is processed by the school should be referred to the Data Protection Liaison Officer.