Overview

GEMS Winchester School – Dubai http://www.gemswinchesterschool-dubai.com/

Job Description

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)
  • 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

Skills

Experience and qualification requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing Graduate
  • Registered Nurse
  • Dubai Health Authority (DHA) nursing license
  • At least 2 years experience in Dubai
  • School/ Nursery experience required
  • Fluent in English
  • Ability to multi-task

Education

Nursing

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Preferred Candidate

Career Level
Mid Career – Over 2 years experience
Residence Location
United Arab Emirates
Degree
Bachelors

 

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About GEMS Education

Trusted for over 55 years and now a third generation education family, GEMS Education began in a single school room in Dubai. Today, we have the privilege of educating over 190,000 students from over 176 countries through GEMS owned and managed schools globally; over 270,000 students access resources through our services division; and we will impact 20 million by 2020 students through the initiatives of our Charity partner Varkey Foundation.