School Nurse

About the Opportunity

Our School Nurses are a vital role within our school and form part of the multi-campus Allied Health Team, along with multidisciplinary professionals. You will work closely with students, their families/carers, school staff, the wider school community, external health services and relevant community agencies to promote positive health and wellbeing. 

What a day in the role looks like: 

• Provide primary health care to students, with a focus on initial assessments and brief support with a strong emphasis on external referrals, whilst collaborating with campus leadership on student medical needs and management.

• Apply nursing expertise to complete initial assessments, provide brief intervention, medical crisis management and psychoeducation to students. 

• Arrange for external health services to visit all campuses to deliver targeted health and wellbeing services to students.

• Support and increase the health literacy of students, staff and the wider school community.

About you

We are looking for someone who can:

• Deliver services in accordance with MCM's Healing-Oriented Framework, youth-centred, trauma-informed, culturally safe, and strengths-based practice approaches.

• Engage with young people aged 10-18 years who are involved with the Children's Court and may have unmet disability support needs.

• Conduct disability screening using approved screening tools to identify possible disability characteristics, functional impacts, and support needs.

• Provide information, advice, and guidance regarding disability supports, assessment pathways, the NDIS, and relevant commun…