Healthcare Assistant

An exciting opportunity has risen for highly motivated Band 3 Healthcare Assistant permanent (Term time only) to join our friendly and dynamic School Health Service Team which is responsible to Safeguarded Children & Young People in Lewisham. The team is looking for enthusiastic and motivated healthcare assistant who are passionate about Safeguarding children and young people. It is desirable that the candidates have experience of working with children in the community setting with good understanding of public health. The successful candidates will need to have the ability to work as part of an integral skill-mix team. The busy team delivers to designated cohorts of school age children in schools and community setting and this includes flexible working on Saturdays to meet service needs., To contribute to the on-going assessment of a child by completing the appropriate administrative task allocated children, recording and reporting all clinical and behavioural information to the school nurse for action and planning purposes.
To enable children and parents to make most effective use of resources within the service by ensuring they receive up-to-date information, responding to any questions constructively.

• Support 5-19-year teams in the delivery of the healthy child programme.


• To use clinical judgement and skills to report any identified concerns or changes in children's health and wellbeing status, including safeguarding concerns immediately to the relevant school health nurse.


• Support the leadership of the team in using mobile working (laptops) via the RIO RECORD KEEPING system. Ensure team members are inputting data and recording progress notes in line ROCAIP and demonstrate this at your one-to-one meetings with team managers.


• Providing community healthcare for children in Lewisham in school and community


• To plan and implement straightforward tasks and work guided by standard operating procedures and protocols and undertake roles/duties as delegated by team leader.


• Support qualified school health nurse's co-ordination of immunisation clinic on during holiday and weekend.


Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, School Healthcare Assistant will provide a mixture of general and specific care to a group of children in primary, secondary schools and other community settings under the guidance and supervision of a School Health Nurse.
The post holder will be expected to become proficient and competent in their area of practice by undertaking competency assessments specific to the area of clinical practice. The School Healthcare Assistant will promote optimum independence and individualised child focussed care that will support the delivery of the healthy child programme.
The post holder's role will support the School Health Children's 5-19-year Team in general to deliver against key performance indicators and maintain quality of the service. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the school entry screening programme, including the National Child Measuring Programme (NCMP) and undertake vision and audiology screening using the School Screener Computer Software when required. Training will be provided, and competency-based assessment will be completed when required to support other parts of the service.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.