Nurse School Nurse

Job Description:

Mission-Driven Culture

NBFA employees thrive in a collaborative environment of thoughtful, self-reflective professionals on a mission to change the life outcomes of Bridgeport youth by helping to close the nefarious achievement gap. Our mission is to provide students a meaningful, high-quality education through experience-based learning that helps develop essential social, emotional and critical-thinking skills. This gives all children a foundation to achieve their full potential at every stage of life.

JOB TITLE: School Nurse

Classification: Full-time/40 hours per week/Exempt/11 Month

Summary: The NBFA school nurse must be committed to and advocate for its mission to provide students a meaningful, high-quality education through experience-based learning that helps develop essential social, emotional and critical-thinking skills. This gives all children a foundation to achieve their full potential at every stage of life.

The school nurse advances the well-being, academic success, and long term outcomes of students by addressing health needs and providing services that foster better and mental apptitiude.

Principal Accountabilities:

1. Promote a healthy and safe learning environment through implementation of health services programs

2. Facilitate positive student responses to normal development

3. Identify and provide a process for resolving students' health care needs that affect educational achievement

4. Collaborate with the primary care physician, specialists, local public health and social service agencies to ensure a full spectrum of effective and quality services that sustain the student and his/her ability to achieve

5. Ensure compliance with school entry health requirements

6. Assure student compliance with state and local health regulations (e.g. immunizations, mandated screenings)

7. Provide a system for dealing with crisis medical situations

8. Provide care and case management for children with chronic health problems

9. Ensure the security and safe administration of medications

10. Ensure that quality health education courses are offered by serving on curriculum and planning committees

11. Ensure adherence to the school's wellness policy

12. Refer the student and family to a physician, or other health-based facility, as needed

Employee Benefits

NBFA offers a full array of benefits, including:

• Friendly work environment
• Medical and dental plan (generous portion of employee premium paid by NBFA)
• Life & AD&D, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Professional Development Opportunities
• 10+ paid national holidays
• Paid Time Off: 5 sick day and 3 personal days

Requirements

Certification, Knowledge and Skills: The School Nurse must:

1. Maintain a current Connecticut license as a registered nurse

2. Be highly organized and possess great attention to detail

3. Maintain the highest level of professional and ethical standards

4. Have excellent communication skills to work with all constituencies

5. Communicate frequently with parents, both orally and in writing

6. Candidates fluent in oral and written Spanish, French Creole or Portuguese encouraged to apply

Start Date

8/19/24

ContactHuman Resources

Phone: (203) 384-2897

Fax:

employment@nbfacademy.org

184 Garden Street, Bridgeport, CT 06605