School Health Assistant II - Waiakea Intermediate

Hawaii State Department of Education•Hilo, HI

4d•Onsite

About The Position

School Health Assistant II is considered full-time at 6½ hours per day. This role involves administering emergency first aid care to ill or injured students, taking temperatures, and allowing students to rest in the health room as necessary. The assistant may administer oral and topical medications following strict program guidelines, and contact parents or guardians of ill or injured students. They may also perform health-related screening tests such as hearing and vision tests, participate in health surveys, take throat swabs, and measure height and weight under the direction of the school health nurse. The position requires completing appropriate records, referring health records to the school health nurse, and conducting visual surveys of school buildings and grounds for potential hazards. Additionally, the role may involve giving basic health instruction, orienting and supervising volunteers, rendering emergency first aid to staff, administering CPR, maintaining a clean health room, providing resource information on at-risk symptoms, acting as a liaison between home, school, and community for health services, coordinating health-related speakers, disseminating wellness information to staff, and advocating for a positive health and wellness program.

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.
1 year of General Experience: Work experience involving working with people. Such work experience must have required the individual to establish and maintain working relationships with others on a person-to-person basis and may have involved observing and participating in or supervising the activities of individuals for medical or therapeutic purposes; counseling, screening or serving as an informational resources for people seeking assistance or for whom assistance is bring provided; serving as an instructor, teaching assistant or group leader; working as a participant in a community service organization whose activities require the cooperative effort of a number of individuals for the attainment of group goals or participating in a community outreach or development program. This work experience may have been on a paid or volunteer basis and may have been on either a full-time or part-time basis but must have been continuous. Furthermore, the work experience must have demonstrated the individual’s ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
2 years of Specialized Experience: Work experience which demonstrates the possession of basic health knowledge and practices (e.g. personal hygiene, common sanitary practices, symptoms of common illnesses, etc.) and the ability to use a personal computer and/or data processing systems. Examples of experience which demonstrates that possession of the required basic health knowledge may include, but should not be limited to, 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, a homecare facilities operator or other similar type of experience.
Current certification in first aid.
Current certification in child and adult cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

Nice To Haves

Successful completion of a bachelor’s or associate’s degree in nursing or related field at an accredited college or university may be substituted for one (1) year of the general experience and two (2) years of the specialized experience.
Successful completion of a community college program or its equivalent in medical assisting, human service, practical nursing or similar curriculum may be substituted for one (1) year of the require general experience and one (1) year of specialized experience.
Satisfactory completion of formal course work I health and personal hygiene, child care and home management or other similar courses which have include such topics as hygiene, health, sanitation, etc. may be substituted for one (1) year of the 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).
As necessary, 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.
As directed by the school health nurse, 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.
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 recognized various at-risk symptoms for referral to the appropriate staff.
Liaison between the home, school and community in collaborating health services/activities.
Coordinates health related speakers to aid with class curriculum when requested.
Disseminate and coordinate information to employees on wellness activities and/or events for staff member of the school at the discretion of the school principal.
Advocate a positive and informative health and wellness program for the school.