Academic City College Healthcare Jobs in Accra
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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
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1. Patiently scroll down and read the job description below.
2. Scroll down and find how to apply or mode of application for this job after the job description.
3. Carefully follow the instructions on how to apply.
4. Always apply for a job by attaching CV with a Cover Letter / Application Letter.
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
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