All Other Positions School Nurse -Part Time

Job Description:

Bethel Public Schools • Bethel, CT

Position Title:

School Nurse (Part-Time)

Hours:

This is a part-time position, working approximately 3 to 4 hours per day, Monday through Friday, during the school year.

Qualifications:

• Registered professional nurse, currently licensed by the State of Connecticut and meeting the State requirements for qualification as a school nurse in Connecticut. [C.G.S. Sec 10-212.]
• No less than one years full-time experience as a registered nurse within the last five (5) years immediately prior to employment.

Reports To:

Coordinator of Health Services and School Principal

Job Goal:

To promote the health and well-being of students and staff.

Performance Responsibilities:

Promotes and maintains student health through:

• Facilitating positive student responses to typical development
• Collaborating with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning
• Providing health counseling and guidance to students and parents
• Assisting with the instruction of health education and serving as a resource person in matters pertaining to health education and development of health curriculum
• Promoting health and safety in the school setting
• Providing case management services
• Consulting with community health care providers regarding student health matters
• Consulting with school staff as necessary related to student health problems

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provides first aid treatment of accidents and care of illnesses that occur in school
• Ensures that student health assessments and immunizations as required by State law are current according to regulations
• At the high school, certifies to the athletic coaches that all athletes have obtained a health assessment and are cleared medically to participate in the sports program
• Conducts districts student health screenings required by current law
• Maintains up-to-date cumulative health records of all students according to district procedures
• Maintains data on health interventions for district reporting
• Reports on student health assessment and health status as necessary to the planning and placement team
• Initiates staff, student, and visitor accident reports and reports such incidents according to district policy
• Observes the school environment and recommends changes necessary to maintain optimum health and safety of students and school personnel
• Provides information necessary for school health surveys and reports as required by Connecticut State Departments of Education and Health
• Assists with any special immunization clinics as ordered by the school physician
• Keeps current in best practices in school nursing and in particular, issues regarding the health and well-being of school-aged children
• Carries out other duties as assigned by the Coordinator of Health Services

Term of Employment:

Ten-month, part-time position (3 to 3.5 hours/day, Monday-Friday)