College Health Practitioner

Hours; Full time (37hrs per week) for 38 weeks per year (Term time plus 2 training weeks)

Duration; Fixed term for 12 months

Salary; £36,406 (£31,225.15 pro-rata) per annum + benefits

Location; South Yorkshire

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.

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

• Access to local government pension
• Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
• Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
• Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
• Parking available at all of our sites
• Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications