Health & Social Care Support Worker – School Setting
Full-time | Term-time only | Immediate start available
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to thrive both academically and emotionally? We’re looking for a compassionate, reliable Health & Social Care professional to join our school team and make a real difference every day.
About the Role:
You will play a key role in supporting students with a range of needs, including medical, personal care, emotional regulation, and day-to-day wellbeing. Working closely with teachers, pastoral leads, and external agencies, you will help create a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment where every young person can succeed.
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Providing daily care and wellbeing support to pupils
2. Supporting students with personal care, mobility, or medical needs (training provided)
3. Building positive, trusting relationships with young people
4. Supporting behaviour, emotional regulation, and social development
5. Working collaboratively with staff and families to ensure student needs are met
6. Helping create a calm, structured learning environment
We’re Looking For Someone Who:
7. Has experience in Health & Social Care, youth work, support work or SEND
8. Is patient, empathetic and confident supporting vulnerable young people
9. Can work well within a team and follow safeguarding procedures
10. Is resilient, proactive and committed to improving young people’s lives
11. (Desirable) Holds a Level 2/3 qualification in Health & Social Care or similar
What We Offer:
12. A supportive, friendly school environment
13. Full training, including safeguarding, behaviour support and personal care
14. Opportunities for career development within education and care
15. Competitive pay and term-time working
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 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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