at Timanous Foundation in Raymond, Maine, United States
Job Description
Spend an amazing summer with a great group of campers and counselors on a beautiful lake in Southern Maine, 22 miles from Portland. With 130 campers and 60 staff, it is a very welcoming and supportive community. When people visit Timanous, their number one comment is how nice the campers and staff are. It truly is a special place which is confirmed by our very high rate of return of both staff and campers (we are full for the upcoming summer).
Timanous is a traditional boys summer camp with a healthy population. The health center is staffed with three full time nurses ensuring plenty of time for rest and relaxation. Our current nurses are returning for their 10th and 12th summers, both coming to Timanous as new graduates. Health Staff work together and are responsible for all aspects of the camp’s health and wellness program.
The choice to work at Camp Timanous is one which will be rewarding, exciting, and sometimes challenging but the return rate of staff should tell you that this is a unique place to work and we are confident you would have an amazing experience.
This is only a general description of the duties of the camp nurse, and good health and safety have always been a top priority at Timanous.
Duties
Pre camp
- Attend pre-camp meetings and outline health care plan to staff
- Mention any individual camper's health situation to entire staff, if appropriate
Opening day
- Screen campers as they arrive for general health and any preexisting condition
- Receive and label all medications arriving with campers
- Meet with parents about any health concerns
- Attend opening meeting in the Hall that night
End of Camp
- Pack up all camper meds to be sent home
- Pack up all Infirmary Supplies, putting those that cannot freeze in containers to be stored for the following summer
- Clean the infirmary; send all linens to be cleaned
- Make an inventory list and especially note all maintenance issues that should be done before camp opens the following summer
Daily routine
- Hand out meds at mealtimes
- Treat all medical situations in camp
- Drive trips to the doctor when necessary
- Provide comprehensive first aid kits to camping trip personnel
- Screen all campers returning from camping trips
- Fill out all insurance claim forms for doctor's visits
- Keep a daily log of treatments and illnesses
- The nurse may be anywhere on campus but must carry a two way radio when not near infirmary
- Send out all infirmary laundry on Monday
- This should be most of the nurse's duties but some duties may have been inadvertently omitted
Benefits
- Salary: as outlined on contract.
- Room: The nurse lives in a furnished cottage near the health center. Family members are welcome to stay in the nurse's quarters.
- Board: All meals are provided in the dining hall at scheduled hours.
- Laundry: Out-one-day-back-the-next service provided once a week.
- Use of all facilities when not in conflict with campers’ use, nurse duty hours, or safety regulations.
- At least one scheduled day off per week beginning after breakfast (9:00AM) and ending before breakfast (8:00AM) the following day. Other arrangements can be made with prior approval of the director.
- The camp nurses will arrange their schedules to provide mutually agreeable time off for nurses. Should they not be able to agree, the directors will assist with the schedule. The only requirement is that there always be a nurse in camp and on duty.
Physical Aspects of the Job
- Ability to communicate and work with campers and counselors
- Live and work in a rustic and outside environment
- Physical ability to respond appropriately to situations requiring first aid
- The nurse must be able to quickly reach every place on the camp property. Much of the camp is reachable only by foot with many areas at least ¼ mile from the infirmary and reachable only by wooded paths with rocks, roots and hills.
