School Nurse

Job description / Role

We are currently recruiting for a dynamic and experienced School Nurse to join our team at GEMS Winchester School, Dubai.

Reporting to the School Doctor, the successful applicant will support the school and assist in providing optimal learning opportunities by supplying the services needed to identify health related barriers to education and addressing each student's health needs thereby improving their ability to learn.

Responsibilities:
- Models and encourages a culture of kindness in support of the GEMS core values.
- Provides health assessments
- Obtains a health history
- Screens and evaluates findings of deficit in vision, hearing, scoliosis, etc.
- Observes the child for development (growth, height, weight) and health patterns in making nursing assessment and identifying abnormal health findings
- Develops and implements a student health plan
- Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel
- Initiates referral to parents, school personnel for intervention, remediation and follow through
- Provides ongoing health counselling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies
- Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students
- Files medical forms such as medical consent form, immunization record and documentation of other health condition in students' health records
- Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/ illnesses (giving oral, IV, IM medication as per Doctor's order)

Requirements

- Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases
- Provides health education and anticipatory guidance
- Provides direct health education, and health counselling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health
- Ensures health office operation opens for students and personnel on campus during after school hour scheduled functions
- Maintains supply and medical needs for effective operation
- Maintains confidentiality regarding health issues
- Plan the vaccination schedule of every student as per DHA Immunization Guidelines and conduct vaccinations under the supervision of the school doctor
- Cooperates with Ministry of Health regulations

About the Company

GEMS Education is a pioneering education company with an international network of award winning K-12 schools. Over the past 55 years GEMS has grown from one school to being a truly global company with one incredible mission – to make quality education available to every student. Over 20,000 education professionals unlock the potential of over 250,000 students across 14 countries each and every day, preparing children of all ages for real world success.