Administrative Health Liaison - Cimarron Elementary School

Job Summary

The Administrative Health Liaison provides main office support, screens and refers telephone inquiries, and assists in the health needs of students.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide main office support with phone calls, main entrance doors, guests, and attendance calls.
• Greet and welcome visitors to the building.
• Answer and screen telephone calls, take messages, and assist staff, students, parents/guardians, and community members with concerns and questions.
• Provide routine medical care for students and staff, including triage, first aid/urgent care, and routine interventions for ill and injured students.
• Perform basic clerical duties such as data entry, alphabetizing, filing, duplicating, laminating, taking inventory, ordering supplies, and light bookkeeping.
• Draft and/or type letters, memorandums, reports, and related materials.
• Organize and maintain file system, including IEPs, databases, personnel records, student records, tests, surveys, legal documents, evaluations, professional growth, insurance, supplemental pay, club budgets, mentor programs, workshops, etc.
• Contribute to the maintenance of student immunization files and ensure all students have an appropriate Certificate of Immunization or Certificate of Exemption.
• Contact emergency services as necessary and communicate with emergency contacts for ill or injured students according to state laws and district protocol.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Reporting Relationships

This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• No professional work experience required.
• Criminal background check and fingerprinting required.
• High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma.
• CPR/First Aid certification.
• Intermediate knowledge of typical office equipment.
• Intermediate knowledge of community resources.
• Intermediate knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced interpersonal relations skills.
• Ability to diffuse and manage stressful and/or volatile situations.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job in accordance with FERPA and HIPAA.
• Ability and willingness to have medical contact with and provide physical care for students.
• Ability and willingness to provide basic custodial services in health clinic.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with others.
• Ability to work one-on-one and in small groups with students.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Medium work strength level (lifting or carrying 50 pounds).
• Primarily works indoors.
• Typically a moderate noise level.
• Work location is subject to change to meet the requirements of the organization.
• Frequent standing, walking, bending, reaching, squatting, and climbing.
• Speaking and hearing.
• Eye/hand coordination (e.g., typing, ten key).
• Close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, visual concentration, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Concentrated reading/writing/mathematics.
• Occasional repetitive motions, lifting, pulling, overhead work, and pushing.
• Normal office environment.
• Normal school district environment that may include potential volatile outbursts.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in the public sector.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Racially conscious and culturally competent.
• Experience working in a school district or educational setting.
• Experience working with students, including students with autism, behavior challenges, medically complex conditions, hearing or vision loss, or intellectual disabilities.
• Qualified medication administration personnel (QMAP)/medication administration qualified.