School Nurse

Klay Schools; Chennai; On-site; INR 201,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

KLAY Schools in Chennai is seeking a Pediatric Nurse to provide a safe, caring, and enriching environment for infants. The role involves health monitoring, active licensing, and collaboration with the Centre Director to ensure child well-being throughout the day.

The nurse will manage medical records, conducts on-site health assessments, and administers first aid while maintaining strong communication with parents and staff. A compassionate, patient approach is essential in this demanding role.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Nursing with active license.
• Strong communication and presentation abilities.
• Ability to stay calm and solve problems in emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Maintains required reports and records for every infant in the class.
• Ensures resources are used effectively and minimizes wastage.
• Enhances infant care with age-appropriate displays and learning activities.
• Adheres to school policies at all times.
• Provides on-site assessment of sick or injured children’s needs.
• Provides first aid for injuries at the centre.
• Communicates regularly with parents about child development.
• Implements lesson plans to keep infants engaged throughout the day.
• Cares for basic needs: feeding, cleaning, diaper changes.
• Monitors health and safety of infants and staff at the centre.
• Observes and assesses infants regularly.
• Interacts with parents to discuss development and needs.

Skills

Pediatric Nursing

Communication Skills

Storytelling

Patience & Compassion

Education

Degree or Diploma in Nursing

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Designation: Nurse
Reporting to: Centre Director
Qualifications: Degree or Diploma in Nursing compulsory and Active License
Work Timings: 9 AM 6 PM / 10 AM 7 PM

General Description
We are looking for Pediatric Nurse who can provide fun and enriching learning environment to infants. The work can be physically and emotionally demanding, so resilience and stamina are essential requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Maintains required reports and records for every infant in the class
• Ensures that resources are utilized effectively and works towards minimizing wastage
• Play a key role in enhancing the appeal of the infant care class with age appropriate displays, learning resources and fun and enriching activities
• Is well versed with the school policies and ensures that the school policies are adhered to at all times
• Provides onsite assessment of a sick or injured childs needs of the centre.
• Provide first aid treatment in case of injuries to any child in the centre
• Ensures that regular and relevant communication is sent out to parents
• Ensures that the lesson plan is efficiently implemented to keep infants constructively occupied throughout the day
• Taking care of the basic needs of the infants; like feeding food, cleaning of infants before and after meal, supervise diaper change, etc.
• Ensures that observations and assessments of infants are carried out regularly
• Ensures the safety, health, hygiene and security of the infants along with the other children, teaching and non-teaching staff of the centre.
• Monitors the centre for health issues and cleanliness.
• Interacting with parents to discuss childs development and other requirements on need basis

Individual Responsibilities

• Is able to remain calm in any situation, yet solve problems quickly in an emergency.
• Demonstrates professional behaviour while interacting with team members as well as parents
• Acting as a guide to colleagues in times of doubt and helping them take appropriate decisions and actions
• Like any nurse, a day care centres nurse must have patience and compassion to work with infants and young children
• To be involved in other activities, e.g. training, staff meetings, events and celebrations
• Serve as a role model to children and staff in terms of punctuality, respect, responsibility
• Recording ouch/accidents in the ouch report. Ensure the Centre Director has initialled the report before the parent receives it

Additional Skills

• Knowledge of early child development milestones and child related concepts and practices
• Basic Computer skills including MS Office suite of MS Word, MS Excel to keep student records
• Good Communication & presentation skills, both oral and written, esp. report writing
• Being good in Creative work and Story-telling skill