Location: | Rotherham |
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Salary: | £36,406 (£31,225.15 pro-rata) pa + benefits |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 14th March 2024 |
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Closes: | 25th March 2024 |
Job Ref: | NSF000011 |
Hours; Full time (37hrs per week) for 38 weeks per year (Term time plus 2 training weeks)
Duration; Fixed term for 12 months
About the Role
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a College Health Practitioner to work within the Safeguarding and Student Support Team. The role of a College Health Practitioner is to provide a professional and a pro-active health advisory service to all students and to provide advice and guidance relating to specific student health issues to relevant staff. This role involves delivering first aid, offering advice and guidance on physical health matters, and conducting risk assessments related to health.
As College Health Practitioner you will work alongside members of cross College teams and external stakeholders to promote physical health for all our students. The key fundamental to this role is to promote Health and Wellbeing of all learners across the College.
You will plan and deliver a monthly Health Promotion Programme, tailored to address known relevant health issues, e.g. sexual health, healthy lifestyles, smoking etc. liaising with the Student Support Services and Marketing teams to maximise learner engagement with their programme.
This is a truly rewarding role, which you can make your own through developing new initiatives and procedures to ensure all of our learners are happy and healthy whilst studying with us to be the most successful they can be.
You will…
To be successful as a College Health Practitioner you will need experience of working within a medical or clinical health environment with a recognised clinical mental health or contraception and sexual health qualification as well as registration of a nurse or nurse practitioner.
You will have experience of delivering learning/training to groups of young people and/or staff on health and wellbeing related topics. You will have experience of working as part of a team but also able to work independently.
In addition to the vocational/professional industry qualifications, you will hold a Level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths or be willing to work towards.
Department Info
The role of College Health Practitioner will be part of the Safeguarding and Student Support Team, managed by the SEND and High Needs Manager. You will work collaboratively with different departments within college; including; Director of Campus, Curriculum teams and business support teams.
Our excellent benefits and rewards package:
What is the RNN Group?
RNN Group’s main goal is to be an ‘outstanding’ education and training provider and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit highly motivated and innovative individuals to join our existing teams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group we will expect you to be committed to our values too;
We are OFSTED ‘Good’ (November 2022)
We celebrate diversity and are proud to have been recognised as Investors in Diversity for our work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. This means that you’d be working in a supportive environment that encourages, recognises and celebrates effort, achievement and cooperative attitudes. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, faith or disability. We are also proud to be part of the Disability Confidence Scheme.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. All new employees will be required undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.
All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.
Closing date: Monday 25th March 2024 at 12:00 Noon - if you are shortlisted for this post you will be contacted within a week of the closing date.
If you require further information about this vacancy please contact the HR department on 01709 722750 or recruitment@rnngroup.ac.uk
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