School Nurse

Job Title: School Nurse

Job Purpose

To work in partnership with Makini School to create an environment that promotes healthy living, as well as responding to the needs of individual children.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assess the health needs of the whole school community and develop a health plan, including Health and Safety Policies.
• Provide confidential health advice for individual children.
• Support, advise, counsel and refer children to specialists where required.
• Support vulnerable children by working alongside teachers and other professionals.
• Provide advice to parents, caregivers and staff on childhood illnesses and the management and control of infectious diseases.
• Develop and implement a student health plan.
• Interpret the health status of students to parents and school personnel.
• Utilize existing health resources to provide appropriate care to students.
• Maintain, evaluate and interpret cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.
• Develop procedures and provide for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses.
• Provide health education and anticipatory guidance.
• Improve health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health.
• Ensure proper hygiene is fostered around the middle school section, especially around the lavatories.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education & Experience

• Registered Nurse with at least a Diploma in a related discipline.
• At least 2 years working experience in a recognised school.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar position or equivalent.

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities & Values

• Proficiency in MS Office suite of packages.
• Knowledge on special activity coordination.
• Excellent verbal and written skills in order to communicate courteously and effectively with students, teachers and parents.
• Strong customer relations skills and ability to work well with all levels of staff.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, a team player and self-driven.
• Flexible to work as need be.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Must have an open mind and be adaptable to change, able to develop and implement new procedures and policies.
• Be willing to inspire, challenge, motivate and empower students.