What’s the focus of this position? 

• Provide high quality nursing care to students who are injured or unwell.

Specific responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

• Manage, triage and co-ordinate administration of the first aid/medical needs of all students from K-12.
• Provide high quality nursing care to students who are injured or unwell.
• Be readily available and respond appropriately according to triaging priorities to pertinent requests for First Aid assistance.
• Communicate with parents/carers as required via the appropriate communication channels.
• Exhibit confidence and give reassurance to parents/carers.
• Effectively manage students’ chronic illness as it relates to their schooling required to encourage better health outcomes.
• Provide information and support to staff to confidently manage students’ medical conditions and injuries.
• Be engaged with the Wellbeing Team to encourage a holistic approach to mental illness. This includes submitting referrals to the Wellbeing Team as required.
• Coordinate annual staff vaccinations with authorised provider.
• Update student medical information according to record keeping procedures.
• Ensure medications and action plans are up-to-date, liaising with parents/carers as required.
• Administer daily prescribed medications and over the counter medications to students and oversees the maintenance of an accurate medication register, including keeping an accurate weekly drug count. Ensure administration is recorded in TASS.
• Communicate effectively with Sub School Receptionists regarding ongoing management of students presenting to sub school offices in a manner that prioritises student care, being mindful of the operations of the Health Centre and the effective functioning of each Sub School.
• Triage students and log Health Centre attendance, ensuring medical notes are recorded in TASS.
• Ensure mandatory reporting obligations are reported to the Principal/Deputy Principal as required.
• Maintain confidentiality of health conditions with a need-to-know approach.
• Ensure accident/incident reports are filled out accurately.
• Check student medications for camps prior to departure when advised by Health Centre Administration support.
• Assist in the preparation of medical supplies and medications for excursions and camps ensuring excursion/camp bags are available in a timely manner when required.
• Ensure first aid kits, excursion bags and duty bags are well stocked and supplies are in date. 
• Ensure defibrillators are checked regularly and are in good working order with in-date batteries.
• Undertake regular stocktaking and order medical supplies as needed.
• Assist in medical policy and procedure development when required.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• Hold a minimum qualification of a Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification.
• Maintain Nursing registration. 
• Demonstrates a high level interpersonal skills, accurate and consistent communication skills, effective collaboration, and effective conflict resolution skills and strategies.
• Excellent working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of products and a willingness to embrace new technologies.

Essential Qualities:

•  A committed Christian and an active church member.
• Upholds and support the mission, core values, vision, policies and aims of the College.
• Passionate about Christian education.
• Displays discretion, confidentiality, honesty and integrity.
• Maintains and builds upon professional expertise by participating in appropriate professional development courses.
• Leads by example with high professional standards in all aspects of College life.
• Personally and corporately committed to developing best practice in teaching, student management and procedural matters.
• Demonstrates a high level of organisational proficiency, maintaining high standards with a calm and methodical approach.
• Positive, self-directed, empathetic, enthusiastic and highly motivated, demonstrating adaptability, flexibility, resilience, multi-tasking and capacity to manage work related pressures.
• Works cooperatively and collaboratively as a member of a team.
• Works successfully to build positive, caring relationships with staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community.
• Supports the health and safety of one’s self and others by undertaking duties in a manner that is positive, proactive and sustainable. 
• Complies with workplace policies and procedures for risk identification, risk assessment and risk control.
• Identifies and reports  health and safety risks, accidents, incidents, injuries, and property damage at the workplace in a timely manner.
• Correctly utilises any Personal Protective Equipment.

No job description can capture the complexity of running a school. Therefore, this role will include any other reasonable direction that is within the limits of your skills, competence, training and/or experience as given by your supervisor or the Principal. Job descriptions will need to be reviewed from time-to-time in order to ensure they remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.

WE’LL PARTNER WITH YOU ALONG THE WAY
 

As a member of the St. Philip’s team, we are committed to advancing your God-given purpose and potential by supporting your personal and professional growth, while approaching the changing needs of the future with confidence and ingenuity.
 

Note: All SPCC employees are responsible for ensuring the workplace is free from sexual harassment and must not engage in any behaviour that could amount to sexual harassment. They are also committed to a culture that supports and embraces Child Safe Standards and strictly complies with work health safety standards.

For enquiries you may contact Mr Matt Connett - Principal, SPCC Cessnock. Phone Number : (02) 4007 5000 .

SPCE reserves the right to close this job ad early and appoint a suitable applicant to this role.