Naples, Florida
OPTIMA MANGEMENT SERVICES
Description: About the company
We create and provide education experiences through traditional in-person learning, innovative virtual reality schools, and our exclusive VR-based student field trips and programs. All implement our rigorous, time-tested liberal arts and sciences curriculum, giving families the high-quality options and choices that best suit their lifestyle and student's needs. We also serve the education community at large, with branches specializing in education management services, curriculum development, teacher certification, and professional learning. Our goal is to develop innovative and effective tools and resources to better serve and advance the field of education and to make classical education available to every family.
The health and wellness coordinator will oversee all operational, financial, compliance, and business administration aspects of the school's food service and wellness programs. This will be a salary, exempt position with a 10-month work schedule. Salary will be set annually on a performance-based schedule. The health and wellness coordinator will report to the school operations manager.
The health and wellness coordinator's essential duties and responsibilities are as follows:
Health and Wellness
- Ensure that school's wellness policy is implemented effectively, including the scheduling of school wellness team meetings and maintenance of documentation for state's review.
- Manage the school clinic. Implement and follow clinic procedures and health requirements and serve as main clinic aide.
- Coordinate and schedule hearing and vision screening dates and times for Grades K-3 and sixth-grade students.
- Perform as the school health assistant.
- Perform the beginning of year clinic setup.
- Open clinic daily.
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly procedures.
- Perform end of year tasks.
- Accept new medications into the clinic.
- Receive emergency medications from parents.
- Follow Health Assistant student care guidelines.
- Dispense medication.
- Manage head injuries.
- Dispose of biomedical waste following clinic procedures.
- Manage AEDs.
- Follow emergency preparedness.
- Follow emergency action procedures during Lock Downs.
- Manage medication errors.
- Follow clinic procedures for significant student accidents.
- Follow clinic procedures for reporting communicable diseases.
- Accept Individual Health Plan (IHP) from parents.
- Complete training for clinic duties.
- Financial/Reimbursement:
- Submit reimbursement claims for all meals served to children enrolled in the free and reduced lunch (FRL) program accordingly to each child's eligibility category in a timely manner to ensure rapid payment.
- Reconcile invoices and reimbursement claims and address any discrepancies immediately to ensure reimbursements match food service invoices.
- Handle audit preparation, document submission, onsite review, and any follow-up required.
- Review monthly the number of free, reduced price, and paid meals served by the school to eligible children at the point of service.
- Ensure that students take at least three food components, including one fruit and/or one vegetable, in order for meals to be considered reimbursable.
- Submit for approval to state agency a Free and Reduced-Price Policy Statement in accordance with program regulations.
- Effectively communicate school's meal charging policy and resolve unpaid balances.
- Lunch Application Processing:
- Develop and distribute the parent letter, which will accompany the FRL applications, and outline the program and provide instructions for the FRL applications.
- Verify that the school obtains correct FRL applications in a sufficient number to be distributed to its students.
- Review, approve, and verify all FRL applications for school and maintain files of approved and denied FRL applications in accordance with program requirements.
- Provide determinations regarding submitted FRL applications for a student's qualification for FRL under the program.
- Create and update the eligibility roster for FRL students.
- Other Responsibilities:
- Ensure accuracy of POS data including pricing, daily and monthly meal counts, and synchronization of student data.
- Supervise the food service management company's cafeteria staff and vendor(s).
- Work with food service management company to ensure food standard compliance.
- Comply with requirements or regulations implemented by state agency or federal program authorities required of a school food authority (SFA), including but not limited to, trainings, school wellness team meetings, health inspections, certifications, permits, etc.
- Ensure adequate volunteers or staff to support lunch service to students.
- Coordinate with county health department inspections related to the food service program.
- Support FSMC Hazard Analysis Critical Point (HAACP) plan creation and implementation.
- Any other duties as assigned.
- Three years broad, varied and increasingly responsible experience with computer information systems, and organizational procedures.
- Charter school experience desirable.
- The minimum educational requirements for this job are a high school degree.
- The minimum educational requirement for this job is a high school degree. A bachelor's degree or associate's degree (or equivalent educational experience) is preferred.
- Food service experience required is based on the following:
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent educational experience, with academic major or concentration in food and nutrition, food service management, dietetics, family and consumer sciences, nutrition education, culinary arts, business, or a related field; OR
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent educational experience, with any academic major or area of concentration, and either a state-recognized certificate for school nutrition directors or at least one (1) year of relevant food service experience; OR
- Associate's degree, or equivalent educational experience, with academic major or concentration in food and nutrition, food service management, dietetics, family and consumer sciences, nutrition education, culinary arts, business, or a related field, and at least 1 year of relevant food service experience; OR
- High school diploma (or GED) and three (3) years of relevant food service experience.
- Employee hired without an associate's degree is strongly encouraged to work toward attaining an associate's degree upon hiring.
- To perform this job successfully an individual must be proficient with spreadsheet software and word processing software.
- Ability to demonstrate, uphold, and promote in daily interactions a commitment to the school's mission and vision, and the moral character and civic virtue the school embodies.
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