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Brown County Schools

BCHS Health Assistant

Brown County Schools, Nashville, Indiana, United States, 47448

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Position Type: Support Staff

Date Posted: 9/8/2025

Location: Brown County High School

Date Available: TBD

Closing Date: TBD Health Assistant

Qualifications: * High school graduate

* Current CPR/first aid certification

* Good verbal/written communication skills

Reports To:

Supervised by Building Principal and Brown County Schools Corporation Nurse

Performance Responsibilities: * First Aid/Emergency Care:

* Implement school policies/procedures/standing orders in caring for students who are at school and injured or ill

* Administer first aid

* Screen students for illness/chronic disease

* Complete accident reports

* Communicate with nurse/Principal/parents

* Maintain adequate supplies/equipment for health care

* Give medication as prescribed

* Record Keeping

* Maintain student health folders/health room records

* Initiate file for new students

* Note/communicate to staff special health needs of student

* Check immunization status of new students

* Transcribe all health data onto proper forms as directed by nurse

* Health Programming/Screenings:

* Assist the nurse as directed with the following:

* Vision screening

* Screening for communicable disease

* Postural screening

* Blood pressure screening

* Hearing screenings

* Height/weight screenings

* Staff/school health in-service programs

* Classroom health programs

* Complete daily/monthly reports of health room activities

* Assist nurse with yearly reports/referral follow-ups

* Facilitate communication between parents/staff regarding health matters/school health policies

* Maintain strict confidentiality of student health records/ communications regarding student health

* Seek/accept direction from nurse/Principal regarding any health matter which is outside general policy/procedures, or involves serious injury/illness, or liability to school corporation

* Other tasks as assigned by the Corporation Nurse