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 & Responsibilities
- Assess the health needs of the whole school community and developing 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, care givers 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.
- Improvement of 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
Minimum 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
