Screening Coordinator

Job Type:
Staff

Job Description:

Screening Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of free health screenings in urban elementary schools in the Joplin area and Kansas City metropolitan area.

Essential Duties:

• Coordinates free health screenings to urban core elementary children in the KC metropolitan area.  Schedules screenings and re-screenings in every school.
• Supports director by working with nursing and allied health school faculty to schedule allied health science students, and foster healthy organizational partnerships. Includes timely procurement of all written, signed agreements needed for collaborative partnerships.
• Supports the coordination and promotion of early clinical experience through Score 1 for KCU medical students.
• Schedules events associated with promotion of health screenings
• Works with school nurses and other staff and promotes their role as partner with Score 1
• Schedules trainings and orientations for nursing and allied health programs participating in Score 1 screenings.
• Works with office coordinator and assistant to schedule screening events designed to meet the needs of the program and KCU curricular/clinical departments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in allied health or human services preferred
• Five years’ experience working in elementary schools and/or  community health organizations. Experience in health promotion, event scheduling and coordination, multi-cultural health education and training, mentoring, health professions students is desired.
• School nursing health and/or school district health services experience is desirable
• Ability to navigate computer applications
• Strong proficiency with Word, Excel, Microsoft Office and email communications necessary
• Ability to analyze and resolve procedural problems
• Organize own work, coordinating projects, setting priorities, meeting deadlines and follow up on assignments with minimum direction
• Use initiative and independent judgment within established policy and procedural guidelines
• Communicate effectively with co-workers, subordinates, superiors, the general public, representatives of public and private organizations and others sufficient to exchange or convey information.

Equal Opportunity Employer

KCU is committed to promoting an equal employment opportunity workplace. Equal opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information (GINA), physical or mental disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, ancestry, military and/or veteran status, and/or any other status protected by applicable Federal, state or local law.

Annual Security Report

KCU is committed to providing a safe campus for students, faculty, and staff. Our annual campus security report lists campus crimes and statistics for the campus and public areas around campus for the last three years, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

Thank you for your interest in a career at KCU!

Job Type:
Staff

Job Description:

Screening Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of free health screenings in urban elementary schools in the Joplin area and Kansas City metropolitan area.

Essential Duties:

• Coordinates free health screenings to urban core elementary children in the KC metropolitan area.  Schedules screenings and re-screenings in every school.
• Supports director by working with nursing and allied health school faculty to schedule allied health science students, and foster healthy organizational partnerships. Includes timely procurement of all written, signed agreements needed for collaborative partnerships.
• Supports the coordination and promotion of early clinical experience through Score 1 for KCU medical students.
• Schedules events associated with promotion of health screenings
• Works with school nurses and other staff and promotes their role as partner with Score 1
• Schedules trainings and orientations for nursing and allied health programs participating in Score 1 screenings.
• Works with office coordinator and assistant to schedule screening events designed to meet the needs of the program and KCU curricular/clinical departments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in allied health or human services preferred
• Five years’ experience working in elementary schools and/or  community health organizations. Experience in health promotion, event scheduling and coordination, multi-cultural health education and training, mentoring, health professions students is desired.
• School nursing health and/or school district health services experience is desirable
• Ability to navigate computer applications
• Strong proficiency with Word, Excel, Microsoft Office and email communications necessary
• Ability to analyze and resolve procedural problems
• Organize own work, coordinating projects, setting priorities, meeting deadlines and follow up on assignments with minimum direction
• Use initiative and independent judgment within established policy and procedural guidelines
• Communicate effectively with co-workers, subordinates, superiors, the general public, representatives of public and private organizations and others sufficient to exchange or convey information.

Equal Opportunity Employer

KCU is committed to promoting an equal employment opportunity workplace. Equal opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information (GINA), physical or mental disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, ancestry, military and/or veteran status, and/or any other status protected by applicable Federal, state or local law.

Annual Security Report

KCU is committed to providing a safe campus for students, faculty, and staff. Our annual campus security report lists campus crimes and statistics for the campus and public areas around campus for the last three years, in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

Thank you for your interest in a career at KCU!