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Field of Competition: Open Competitive

DEFINITION

Assists in the daily operation of the school health office; administers first aid to ill and injured students; performs a variety of clerical duties relating to the school health program.

• 6-hours per day; 5 days per week; 9 months per year

Education: 

Completion of formal or informal education sufficient to possess the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities established for the position; must possess a secondary (i.e., high school) school diploma, or its equivalent.

Experience: 

Six (6) months of clerical or other paid or unpaid experience working with school age children.

SPECIAL LICENSE OR LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Must obtain a standard First Aid Certificate and complete a Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) course within thirty (30) days of employment and obtain annual CPR re-certification.
• The ability to read, write and speak a language in addition to English, such as Spanish or Armenian, is desirable.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Employees must be physically and mentally able to perform the essential duties of a position with or without reasonable accommodation and without hazard to themselves or others.  May be required to lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds.

• Assists in the maintenance of confidential student health records by typing, filing, recording information, etc.
• Types information onto forms and lists; administers first aid to ill or injured students.
• Provides supervision as the situation requires.
• Verifies student compliance with health requirements.
• Maintains a daily log of first aid services to students.
• Answers questions providing information on health procedures, programs, etc.
• Maintains and restocks first-aid kits and health office supplies.
• Measures height and weight of students.
• Contacts parents to give or obtain health information.
• Types and distributes health notices and information to teachers and parents
• Assists in various health clinics performing necessary clerical work.
• Operates a variety of office equipment such as typewriter, copiers, etc.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Skills in:

• Operating a variety of office equipment such as typewriters and copiers.

• First Aid principles and techniques
• Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) procedures
• Child Abuse reporting requirements and procedures
• Confidentiality of medical information
• General clerical and record keeping procedures
• District policy and procedures regarding the district health programs
• Proper grammar, spelling and usage

• Establish effective rapport with students
• Communicate effectively orally
• Compile data and keep confidential records
• Comply with child abuse reporting requirements and procedures understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Make sound judgments when specific instructions are lacking
• Type/keyboard accurately
• Establish and maintain effective working relationship with co-workers and others
• Maintain sensitivity to cultural, religious, ethnic and sexual differences.

APPOINTMENT
Employees who receive a regular appointment to the class must serve a probationary period of one hundred and thirty (130) days of paid service. During this period, an employee must demonstrate an overall satisfactory level of performance; failure to do so shall result in the employee's termination without right of appeal to the Human Resources Department.
Pay is based on actual hours worked.