Nurse - Academic City College

Academic City is a premium tertiary education institution designed to nurture and develop the intellectual capital on the African continent. We have a dedicated focus on innovation-driven learning through new contexts and paradigms, within a transformative learning environment. Our premium teaching talent is facilitated with a state-of-the-art campus in Haatso, Accra, including amphitheater-style lecture halls, student-engaging classroom designs, latest technology/equipment, a venture incubator, and a modern-design engineering workshop.

Comparable to educational institutions abroad, Academic City aims to drive holistic student development with a strong emphasis on activity-based learning, supplemented with entrepreneurial thinking, ethical decision-making, and social-emotional learning.

Reporting to

The Nurse will report to the Dean of Student and Community Affairs, Academic City College

Responsibilities

The nurse must be able to

• Respond to and manage emergency health cases with authority, confidence, and maturity
• Stabilize patients before relocating them off campus, and possibly accompanying them to hospital in cases of absolute emergencies
• Administer basic first aid
• Make decisions about whether to escalate and evacuate to a hospital in cases of emergency, or keep them in-house for observation
• Provide basic health information to students on an ongoing basis, and sometimes lead talks on health issues
• Administer basic medication and/or refer students to health care providers when necessary
• Carry out administrative duties associated with the position for a campus serving between its current size of about 200 students plus 100 staff and faculty, and grow to its near-future size of up to 1,000.
• Be the lead contact in our relationship with a nearby hospital, and be able to establish relationships with others
• Be in constant communication with medical insurance companies.
• Be in charge of preparing budgets and overseeing the basic stock for the first aid center
• Provide information to the Executive Team if/when epidemics emerge in Accra and Ghana
• Disseminate campus-wide health-related alerts in agreement with the Dean of Students
• Ensure that health certificates among cafeteria workers are current.
• Administer all other health-related tasks that can be handled by a nurse.

Qualifications

• Should be a qualified nurse
• Should have strong enough computer and communication skills to handle data entry, reporting, and budgeting, emails and being able to understand our simple health information system
• Should be able to work fairly autonomously.
• Should be mature enough to make swift and sound decisions
• Must connect well with students and staff