Administrative Officer: Medical and First Aid Lead

**Summary**
We are looking for an Administrative Officer to lead on First Aid and Medical, playing a crucial role in supporting students’ welfare and being the first point of contact for any First Aid incidents or medical support.

If you are an Administrative Officer with a passion for support students with different medical conditions to progress through ensuring that students are safe in school and their medical needs are met and looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.

The development of our students academically, personally and professionally is at the heart of everything we do at Harris Academy Battersea. Our values of **_Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience_** embody the qualities we seek to promote and expect to see in our young people. Our Administrative Officer with Lead Responsibility for First Aid and Medical will take a key role in the communication and reiteration of our vision and mission to our students**:_‘We develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world’_**.

**About Us**
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.

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
**Main Areas of Responsibility**
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