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)