Health Assistant (Apply directly with STEM School Highlands Ranch - DO NOT apply online with DCSD)

About the Role

About Stem School Highlands Ranch At STEM School Highlands Ranch, we place innovation at the heart of learning to unleash the potential of all students and prepare them for an exponentially changing world.

Responsibilities

• Ensure enrolling students meet the Colorado State immunization requirements prior to entering school; notify parents and school nurse consultant of incomplete immunization and/or noncompliance; omplete the annual immunization state report.
• Notify school nurse consultant of reportable communicable diseases.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
• Perform delegated procedures in accordance with the student's health care plan and training by the school nurse consultant, such as supervision and/or assistance with the daily management of a student's diabetes, asthma, and severe allergies.
• Document health related services in designated Medicaid documentation system for the DCSD School Medicaid Reimbursement Program as assigned.
• Provide first aid for students per District guidelines, including caring forehead injuries, fractures, and lacerations.
• Maintain appropriate documentation for all health room procedures, including medications, delegated procedures, and first aid in accordance with District guidelines.
• Administer prescribed scheduled and non-scheduled medications to students in accordance with physician orders and District policy; prepare medication for students attending field trips.

Requirements

• First Aid & CPR Certification - Colorado
• High School or Equivalent (Required)

Compensation

• Base pay: $17.80 - $22.63/hr
• Career range upper: $27.45/hr

Benefits

• This position is eligible for health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options.