School Nurse

We are looking for a School Nurse to join our School & Boarding Health Centre on a 24/7 rotation basis.
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree/ Professional holder in Nursing
- Mandatory registered Nursing Board.
- Available on-call 24 hours, proactive, and able to handle any clinical situations.
- Current CPR and First Aid certifications and supported with a Verifications of Transcript of training.
- Ability to remain calm and deliver quality care in high-pressure situations.
- International experience in order to understand parent concerns and needs of their children in a foreign country (culture).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Previous school and boarding experience will be an added advantage.
- Required languages: English and other Asian languages would be added advantage.

**Responsibilities**:

- To provide a clinically effective, high-quality service of nursing care to schools and boarding pupils and first aid to all members of the community.
- Assess, evaluate and implement in-patient care for pupils admitted to the Health Centre.
- Collect pertinent student medical information and vital health data.
- Example monitoring immunizations, managing communicable diseases.
- Ensure that individual care plans are developed and written for students requiring them and made available to staff on a ‘need to know' basis.
- Render first aid and emergency care and dispensing medications, including packing and replenishing of medicine. This includes replenishing stock of all school and boarding first aid kits.
- Respond and handling of emergency calls such as falls, burns, food poisoning and assess student/patient conditions and make critical care decisions quickly.
- Ability to provide emergency care for injured students who are being moved from an active injury scene to the hospital.
- Initiate continuous improvement activities to identify causes of accidents and provide action plans to avoid future similar accidents.
- Provide confidential counseling of health advice service as appropriate.
- Establish and execute procedures for the control of infectious diseases.
- Be aware of recommended safe storage, usage, and disposal of medical supplies and drugs.
- Maintain treatment room stock, hygiene, and tidiness.
- Develop and maintain good links and lines of communication with key staff whose primary responsibility is the duty of care and pupils in the school and boarding.
- Work closely with the Superiors to determine the best way to respond to calls based on the school’s priority system.
- Report health screenings/ injury hazards and accidents.
- Encourage safe practices and awareness in school and boarding premises.
- Perform other ad-hoc tasks duties as and when required.

**Benefits**:

- Health insurance

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Night shift

Expected Start Date: 03/04/2024