Safety & Health Specialist

Summary:

The Safety and Health Specialist is responsible for ensuring regulatory adherence supporting school-based staff and leading initiatives that promote student health and safety. This role serves as a resource for safety compliance and health-related initiatives across our schools and requires strong organizational skills the ability to manage multiple priorities and excellent communication to ensure compliance and program success.

Company Information:

National Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with communities to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995 today NHA serves over 100 schools in nine states with more than 65000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Our schools are designed to eliminate the achievement gap and provide school choice to families so their children are prepared for success in college career and life. A majority of our schools consistently outperform their local district on the state test. According to the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University NHA is a leading performer among charter schools and management organizations outperforming both conventional district schools and other charter school addition according to our employee survey over 90% of respondents agree that the work they do is meaningful to them. Join our team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Compliance & Support
Serve as the primary health compliance lead for all NHA schools leveraging health professional relationships for support and providing guidance on student health and medical matters.
Ensure compliance with state nursing regulations and student health laws; serve as a liaison to state nursing agencies and local health departments.
Act as the central point of contact for school leaders and service center teams (SPED DSQs Legal/Compliance Enrollment Purchasing Board Relations Charter Renewal and Safety).
Collaborating with health professionals arrange training for student medical needs based on their medical action plans.
Manage annual nurse and health training requests including vendor coordination contract development amendments renewals and ongoing vendor relationship management.
Update and maintain health policies and medical handbook language to ensure regulatory alignment and operational efficiency.
Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency consistency and cost-effectiveness across safety and health operations.

Safety Compliance & Programs
Support the annual completion and compliance reporting of over 1400 emergency drills including collection of logs inspection reports and submission to authorizers and state entities.
Develop and support safety and regulatory compliance training materials for school-based staff.
Collect maintain and monitor required safety compliance documentation and reporting.
Oversee ordering and tracking of required safety and health equipment (e.g. EpiPens Stop the Bleed kits etc.).

• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors preferred but not required
• 2-4 years of experience in compliance health or safety roles or equivalent experience comparable to other specialist positions at NHA.
• Experience in compliance monitoring training or program management preferred.
• Independent problem-solving skills and strong ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams and departments.
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills.

This is an in-person position at our NHA Service Center located at 3850 Broadmoor Ave. Grand Rapids MI.

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National Heritage Academies is an equal-opportunity employer.