School Nurse

The role of the School Nurse is to support the medical needs of students and staff at Harrow International School Appi throughout term time. The Nurse is expected to provide and maintain a fully equipped medical unit and first aid stations around the campus and to monitor health & safety in the school. The School Nurse will work within a team of four.

Responsibilities & duties

Nursing

-    Treat minor ailments & injuries of staff and students

-    Keep and administer medications appropriately

-    Maintain full and up-to-date medical records on all students and staff

-    Liaise with parents, school management and local facilities if expert treatment is required

-    Take ill/injured students or staff to hospital when necessary

-    Communicating to relevant staff ‘High Risk’ medical problems of specific students

-    Liaise with parents regarding their children’s health situation in English as the initial medium

-    Inform relevant Teachers, Heads or the School Counsellor if any student exhibits psychosociological problems or confides in the nurse

-    Maintain a fully stocked medical centre in rotation with other Nurses

-    Notify and advise school management on any significant health issues inside the school or in the wider community

-    Advise on school health policies

-    Assist with routine annual medical and stress checks of staff and students

-    Maintain all relevant medical records

-    Collect medication and prepare relevant information for staff prior to day/residential trips

-    Attend school sports fixtures as an onsite nurse to treat any sports related injuries

-    Provide relevant medical related advice to parents when requested

-    Liaise with Head of Boarding and/or Housemasters/mistresses on all medical issues pertaining to Boarding House students

Health and Safety

-    Advise the School’s management on all relevant Health and relevant Safety issues

-    Perform First aid training (including CPR/AED) for the staff and, where necessary, students. Will need to be, or become, a certified First Aid instructor

Student Support

-    To work in collaboration with the Head of Boarding & Pastoral and Head of Operations to develop whole school Nursing and Medical care services

-    To play an active role in a Team Around the Child (TAC) approach to support students who have co-occurring challenges 

-    To share appropriate student information and strategies with staff to support students’ medical needs

-    To undertake Safeguarding training and report safeguarding concerns in line with the schools Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures 

Other

-    Assist the Head of Operations, Assistant Head Pastoral and other department staff with reasonable non-nursing or health & safety related requests