Administrative Officer: Medical and First Aid Lead

Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students. In 2023, Ofsted visited the academy and judged us as remaining ‘outstanding’, commenting on our “highly ambitious curriculum”, the “exceptionally high quality of education” provided and noted that “behaviour in the school is very strong”. Nevertheless, we are extremely ambitious for our school and as we seek to continue to grow and develop, we are looking for more brilliant people to join us.

Our Academy is centred on the values of Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience and these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world. 

HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:

• To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge
• To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
• To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
• To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
• To enable students to understand how they learn
• To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community

These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, and we see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their roles as tutors and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.

A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make teaching at HABS both enjoyable and sustainable. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.

At HABS, professional growth and development is central to our mission. Our professional development motto is ‘improve, not prove’ and leaders are relentlessly focussed on supporting staff in getting even better through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities. 

As a part of the Harris Federation, all staff in the Academy benefit from being part of our network of more than fifty primary and secondary academies across London. Vibrant networks of subject experts meet regularly and teachers can access bespoke support from our central teams of consultants.

For more information about what we do and who we are, we encourage you to visit our website here as well as our careers page here and explore!

Your responsibilties will include:

• Being the first point of contact in respect of administering first aid and the named responsible officer for all first aid matters
• Managing the register of suitably qualified first aiders within the Academy
• Arranging and communicating a first aid duty rota, as well as supporting other first aiders
• The health and safety and compliance of the Medical room
• Liaising with the academy catering supplier regarding student dietary requirements
• Administration of student medication
• Delivering the specific medical related needs of students as defined within their individual Statements of Additional Needs / care plans
• Using Medical Tracker and other records to keep logs of all first aid incidents, medication and medical conditions
• Analysing and reporting on data on the Medical Tracker, suggesting solutions for improvement e.g. reduction of injuries in various locations
• Attending regular Medical report meetings with the Director of Resources
• Coordinating communication home around any first aid incidents
• Writing and updating all individual health care plans, tracking and monitoring 
• Administering the programme of, and assisting where necessary in student medical examinations
• Advising and training Academy staff  in specific procedures which they may be expected to carry out in the absence of a trained nurse
• Promoting health education in partnership with the teaching/support staff
• Ensuring that the highest possible standards of clinical procedures are maintained
• Liaising with parents/carers and medical personnel to ensure that the health needs of students are satisfied
• Ensuring that suitable and sufficient stocks of first aid consumables and equipment are maintained
• Working within current Child Protection Procedures and to liaise with the nominated Child Protection Officer
• Meeting  with outside agencies such as CAMHS, the Local Authority (NHS) school nurse, social care, site police officer, local GPs and dentists, opticians etc. and implementing care from these meetings.
• Referring to the in-school Mental Health Lead, into CAMHs and other mental health services, as well as following up referrals with the CAMHs in school team.
• Supporting children who self-harm (full range) and documenting incidents and support on CPOMs, as well as informing CAMHS/Local Authority (NHS) school nursing

We would like to hear from you if you have: