Glenallen has three Registered Division 1 Nurses working onsite each day. The nursing team is responsible for meeting the medical and physical care needs of students, ensuring their safety and wellbeing throughout the school day. This includes administering medication, responding to medical situations, and managing all enteral feeding requirements, including gastrostomy and nasogastric feeds.

Nurses work closely with parents, carers and staff to remain up to date with each student’s changing medical needs and to ensure consistent communication between home and school. They play a key role in promoting student safety by maintaining our nut awareness policy, protecting students who are at risk of severe allergic reactions.

In addition to direct student care, the nursing team provides professional health support and advice to staff, including training and assessment in medical procedures such as epilepsy management, gastrostomy management and suctioning.

The nurses liaise regularly with external health professionals to ensure students have access to a broad range of services. They facilitate enrolment clinics for new students and their families, coordinate the school care program, and support specialist clinics such as the neurodevelopment clinic in partnership with the Royal Children’s Hospital. Preventative health is also a priority, with nurses coordinating the council immunisation program for 12- and 16-year-old students and arranging the annual influenza immunisations for students and staff. Dental health is supported through collaboration with the School Dental Service during their visits across the year.