Health Assistant

 

Camp Hapitok is a residential summer camp for children, ages 6-11, with communication disorders who live in San Luis Obispo County. This is a non-acute setting serving primarily healthy children and teen volunteers. Some of the teens or children may have chronic conditions. The Health Intern will work under the direction of public school nurses to administer medication and provide health care for ill children and teens as needed.  The Health Intern will also perform other related duties as assigned.

 

 

Required:
 1. Any combination equivalent to: graduation from high school and one year experience working with special education students in an organized setting including some work with special need students, an AA degree (or equivalent)
2. Valid First Aid and CPR Certificate issued by an authorized agency.
3. Competency to administer medications and provide basic health and emergency medical care to children and teen volunteers.
4. Valid California driver’s license 
 
Desirable:
1. Completion of EMT, LVN or medical assistant training
2. Experience providing health care to children

 

 

1. Provide basic health care and administer prescribed medications.
2. Provide first aid and life saving techniques to students without direct nursing supervision.
3. Recognize the first aid and health needs of students and suggest appropriate solutions.
4. Respond appropriately in emergency situations.
5. Read and comprehend medical terms related to students at the camp.
6. Remain calm in stressful situations.
7. Understand, manage, and relate to students who have behavioral problems and/or learning disabilities.
8. Adapt to students.
9. Work with interruptions.
10. Work harmoniously with staff, teens, and children.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

 

1. Provide basic health care and administer prescribed medication to campers and teens.
2. Provide first aid and life saving techniques to students in emergency situations without direct nursing supervision.
3. Work with sensitivity toward the camper’s speech and/or language needs.

 

 

1. With or without the use of aids, sufficient strength to lift a non-ambulatory student, lift and move adaptive equipment, physically restrain and control a student up to 150 pounds with assistance.
2. Sufficient body movement and ability to demonstrate gross motor activities, climb in and out of cars, vans, and buses, to walk and run with students, to climb well enough to go up and down stairs, and to maneuver students into and out of vehicles.
3. Mental acuity to perform essential functions of this position neatly, accurately and in a timely fashion. Additionally, must be able to make good decisions and evaluate the results, thereof.
4. Facility to sit at a desk, conference table, on student chairs, on the floor, or in meeting rooms of various configurations for extended periods of time.
5. Facility to see and read and distinguish colors, with or without vision aids, medical materials, student files and records, laws and rules and other printed matter.
6. Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels, and to hear and understand speech on the telephone.
7. Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and to utilize medical equipment using both hands.
8. Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may clearly understand instructions in presentations, explanations and directions in normal conversations, training sessions, outdoors, in other meetings and on the telephone.
9. Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and up to 50 pounds to waist height; to bend, stoop, climb stairs, walk on uneven terrain, and to reach overhead.
10. Facility to drive a car.

 

 

1. Collaborate with other staff.
2. Report to camp director.