School Health Assistant II - Kapolei Elementary

Hawaii State Department of Education • Kapolei, HI

8d • $2,549 • Onsite

About The Position

The School Health Assistant II role is a full-time position requiring 6½ hours of work per day. This role involves providing essential health services to students, administering first aid, assisting with health screenings, managing medications under strict guidelines, and maintaining communication with parents and guardians. The assistant also plays a role in identifying health hazards within the school environment and may provide basic health instruction. Additionally, the position involves coordinating health-related activities, supporting wellness programs for staff, and acting as a liaison between the home, school, and community for health services.

Requirements

• Possession of a high school diploma, or equivalent, which demonstrated the ability to read, comprehend and apply written instructions; and a high degree of verbal skill.
• 3 years of total experience (1 year General Experience, 2 years Specialized Experience).
• General Experience: Work experience involving working with people, requiring the ability to establish and maintain working relationships with others on a person-to-person basis. This may involve observing and participating in or supervising the activities of individuals for medical or therapeutic purposes; counseling, screening or serving as an informational resource for people seeking assistance; serving as an instructor, teaching assistant or group leader; or working as a participant in a community service organization or community outreach/development program. This work experience may have been paid or volunteer, full-time or part-time, but must have been continuous and demonstrated the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Specialized Experience: Work experience demonstrating basic health knowledge and practices (e.g., personal hygiene, common sanitary practices, symptoms of common illnesses) and the ability to use a personal computer and/or data processing systems. Examples include personal experience as a homemaker involving child care, paid or volunteer experience as a children’s day care center worker, work experience as a para-medical assistant or nurse’s aide, or a homecare facilities operator.
• Current certification in first aid.
• Current certification in child and adult cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Nice To Haves

• Successful completion of a bachelor’s or associate’s degree in nursing or related field may substitute for one year of general experience and two years of specialized experience.
• Successful completion of a community college program or its equivalent in medical assisting, human service, practical nursing or similar curriculum may substitute for one year of general experience and one year of specialized experience.
• Satisfactory completion of formal coursework in health and personal hygiene, child care and home management or similar courses may substitute for one year of specialized experience.

Responsibilities

• Administers emergency first aid care to ill or injured students.
• Takes temperature, permits students to rest in health room as necessary and periodically observes and talks to students to determine symptoms of illness.
• May administer oral and topical medications only in accordance with strict program guidelines (i.e. parental request, physician's order, school health nurse’s approval and school administration approval).
• Contacts parents or guardians of ill or injured students to inform them of their child's illness or injury.
• May call for ambulance service in emergencies.
• Performs various health-related screening tests on students such as hearing and vision screening tests, participates in health surveys of students, takes throat swabs in rheumatic fever surveys and takes height measurements and weights of students.
• Completes appropriate records and refers health records of students which may indicate health problems to school health nurse.
• Makes visual surveys of school buildings and grounds which may have contributed to injury to students and works with the school health nurse and school principal to correct any hazardous conditions.
• May give basic health instruction to students.
• May orient and supervise volunteers to assist in conducting screening tests.
• May render emergency first aid care to school staff.
• Administers CPR as necessary.
• Maintains a clean health room, including adequate supplies and equipment.
• Provides resource information to school staff when requested.
• Recognizes various at-risk symptoms for referral to the appropriate staff.
• Acts as a liaison between the home, school and community in collaborating health services/activities.
• Coordinates health related speakers to aid with class curriculum when requested.
• Disseminates and coordinates information to employees on wellness activities and/or events for staff members of the school at the discretion of the school principal.
• Advocates for a positive and informative health and wellness program for the school.

Benefits

• Salary range: SR-11: $2,549.00 per month
• Full-time at 6½ hours per day
• Temporary positions may be extended year to year, dependent upon funding and departmental needs.
• Temporary employees may be eligible to apply for promotion and transfer opportunities to permanent positions.
• Temporary employees may enjoy other rights and benefits as afforded to an employee in a permanent position, with the exception of return rights and placement rights associated with a reduction-in-force.
• First paycheck within the first 3 pay periods of their start date.
• Payday is on the 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of every month.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED