Healthcare Support Assistant – Morpeth

Turn your healthcare experience into a rewarding career in education.

Do you have experience supporting people with additional care or medical needs?

Protocol Education is recruiting a full-time Healthcare Support Assistant to join a specialist SEND school in Morpeth. The school provides a supportive and highly personalised environment for pupils with complex needs, Autism, physical disabilities and communication difficulties.

You don't need to have worked in a school before – your experience from healthcare, care or support work could give you many of the skills needed for this role.

What we can offer you

• Weekly PAYE pay with no umbrella companies
• FREE access to our CPD Academy
• SEND, safeguarding and medical needs training
• A dedicated consultant
• Long-term opportunities
• Career progression support
• Ongoing professional development
• Wellbeing support

What you'll be doing

You'll help pupils feel safe, supported and able to participate in school life by:

• Supporting pupils in lessons and activities
• Assisting with personal care where required
• Supporting physical and medical needs
• Encouraging independence and daily living skills
• Promoting communication and engagement
• Supporting emotional wellbeing
• Working alongside teachers and therapists
• Building trusting relationships
• Encouraging progress and celebrating achievements

Your background could include:

• Healthcare Assistant experience
• Support Worker experience
• Care Worker experience
• Nursing or healthcare support
• Rehabilitation work
• Residential care
• Children's support work

If you're looking for a career where your healthcare skills can make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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