Location: Pendola Center

Position: Summer Camp Health Services Manager

Classification: Non-Exempt

Schedule: Seasonal June 22 – August 6, 2008

Reports to: Pendola Center Director

Job Summary: Promote a healthy environment for staff and campers in a summer camp.  Pendola Center’s health services includes promoting wellness, identifying areas of camp that may affect  health and safety, and monitoring ongoing health concerns.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to communicate and work with campers and provide necessary instruction to campers.
• Ability to observe camp behavior, assess its appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures and apply appropriate behavior management techniques.
• Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards related to the activities.
• Possess strength and endurance required to maintain constant 24 hour supervision of campers.
• Ability to hike 5 miles of uneven terrain.
• Ability to make quick decisions and respond appropriately.
• Must have a valid Drivers License.

General Responsibilities:
Supervise the health and cleanliness standards; work with the camp directors and staff at providing a healthy and safe environment for all.

• Ensure each staff member and camper has a current health history on file.
• Implement health screening for arriving campers and staff, and for out-of-camp trips.
• Conduct inventory of supplies and place orders when necessary, ensuring timely arrival of supplies.
• Establish and follow appropriate medical routines including record keeping, disposal of medical waste, managing and safeguarding medication and utilizing approved standing orders.
• Coordinate coverage of the health center.
• Inform counselors of need for daily medications of their campers and how the medications will be distributed. Make appointments, when necessary, with medical and dental personnel in the community.
• Notify parents and director of such appointments.
• Stock and issue first aid kits and emergency communication equipment.
• Participate in and lead specific areas of staff training pertaining to camp health and safety, CPR, first aid, the use of universal precautions for infection control and child abuse.
• Keep accident/incident reports.
• Keep camp director appraised of illnesses, incidents causing injury and treatments as they occur.
• Prepare a summary and evaluation of the camp season including inventories and requisitions for the following year, reports on health problems, and make recommendations for the following season.
• Monitor health of all staff including kitchen staff.
• Monitor/evaluate camp procedures, facilities and conditions and suggest modifications that would create more healthful conditions in camp.
• Guide counselors in regard to their responsibilities in noting and reporting illness, injury, or unsafe practices and conditions that might contribute to camper/staff accidents.  Also in reporting campers’ dietary habits such as failure to eat adequate amounts of food, rapid loss or gain of weight and any other health disturbance, including homesickness.
• Other duties as assigned.

 To fulfill other staff administrative roles

• Prepare for and actively participate in staff training, meetings, and supervisory conferences.
• Set a good example for campers and others, including cleanliness, punctuality, sharing clean-up chores, sportsmanship and table manners.
• Follow all camp rules and regulations pertaining to smoking, use of alcoholic beverages and use of drugs.
• Encourage respect for personal property, camp equipment, and facilities.
• Manage personal time off in accordance with camp policy.
• Main good public relations with campers’ parents and visiting public.
• Submit all required reports, and evaluations on time.
• These are not the only duties to be performed. Some duties may be reassigned and other duties may be assigned as required.

• Desired  Qualifications:
  • Either be (1) a faithful Catholic in good standing with the Church, or (2) a non-Catholic who understands that Camp Pendola is operated as part of the youth ministry of the Diocese of Sacramento, and that he or she will therefore be expected to conduct public activities and relationships in a manner that is compatible with the teachings and missions of the Catholic Church. Whether Catholic or not, the employee must be able (and will be expected) to comply with diocesan standards of conduct that incorporate Catholic religious perspective on issues of conduct and morality.
  • Licensed as a registered nurse and able to practice in the state of California.  Minimum qualifications include current Wilderness First Aid certification, current nursing student in their third year, or currently certified EMT.
  • Ability to set up a first aid station, order and organize supplies.
  • Ability to administer first aid, monitor health needs of campers and staff, and follow the health services policies and procedures.
  • Current CPR and First Aid certifications.
  • Desire and ability to work with children outdoors.
  • Desire to live and work in a camp community.
  • Good character, integrity, and adaptability.
  • Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience and self-control.