School Nurse

Position Overview
Legacy Early College (“Legacy”) is looking for talented and committed School Nurse for immediate hire for the 2021-22 school year. Legacy views School Nurses as leaders in the school community who oversee all school health policies and programs. It is up to School Nurses to provide expertise and oversight of school health services and to promote health education. School nurses advocate for the physical, emotional, mental, and social health of students because healthy children are successful learners,

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties:
· Assesses and evaluates the health and developmental status of scholars through appropriate screening techniques.
· Directs initial screening programs in schools served and provides secondary screening prior to referral.
· Assumes responsibility for selection and referral of students identified by the screening process as needing medical or other care.
· Compiles information including observations, appropriate medical records, and screening results.
· Interprets the data to students, their families, and school personnel.
· Monitors pupil immunizations as required by law.
· Screens for vision, dental, hearing, blood pressure, growth, and scoliosis.
· Performs other routine screening procedures.
· Performs health appraisal for students served by Public Law 94-142.

Records:
· Maintains health records and uses the information accumulated to initiate preventive, remedial, or rehabilitative action.
· Maintains and records screening date on cumulative health record.

Follow-up/Counseling/Referral:
· Participates in health counseling, both planned and unplanned, with individuals and groups to assist the students in improving their health status and to promote self-care, decision-making and wellness behavior.
· Interprets nursing assessments and medical evaluations to students, their families and school personnel.
· Performs follow-up nursing care on children with identified health needs.
· Makes appropriate community and health care referrals when needed.
· Participates in staffing for student placement when requested.
· Provides feedback to schools of the screening program conducted.

Education:
· Incorporates health teaching in all activities performed.
· Provides teachers with up-to-date, accurate resource materials for classroom instruction when requested.

· Assists parents to learn about health problems and aspects of parental responsibility for the health care and maintenance of their children.
· Assists with orientation, training, and supervision for new health personnel.
· Serves as health consultant by providing relevant health instruction, counseling, and guidance to students, school personnel, parents, and others on subjects such as first aid and emergency care procedures, CPR training, and specific health problems for in-service programs or school parent programs.
· Health Room/Emergency Care:
· Plans, organizes and coordinates a method of providing first aid and emergency care for each school.
· Assumes responsibility for management for the health room, to include ordering supplies and equipment.
· Administers first aid, care and comfort to ill or injured students as stipulated by written school health policies and procedures, when available.
· Maintains daily log of all children seen for health-related problems.
· Encourages the school to maintain a daily log of all children reported to the health room.

Community Services:
· Assists in identifying and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.
· Serves as liaison between the school, the home, private physicians, health and social agencies, and other community resources to assure appropriate utilization of all available resources for student health needs.
· Maintains up-to-date and accurate records for program service delivery by documenting student records, attendance reports and S.C. State Department End of Year report.
· Maintains on-going program assessment and evaluation through feedback from school and community, participation in employee evaluations, and informing the school and community of program progress and changes.
· Seeks and participates in professional development to enhance continual professional growth through on-going staff development meetings and attending meetings/training relative to job role.
· Supports the school district's total Student Services program to provide for on-going program maintenance and networking.
· Other duties as assigned by this position’s manager

Requirements

• Current license to practice as a nurse in South Carolina, required
• Graduate of an accredited program offering a baccalaureate degree in nursing, or a graduate of an accredited diploma School of Nursing; or an accredited program offering an associate degree in nursing and one to two years nursing experience
• Above average bi-lingual verbal and written articulation (Spanish/English preferred)

Work Schedule
This position will operate on the centralized Legacy Early College calendar, on the 195-day schedule.

Compensation & Benefits
Full time benefits include state (PEBA) medical, vision, dental, as well as, 401k plus employer matching contribution, accrued paid personal days, physical fitness facility and trainer.

Physical Demands
The physical demands characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Long periods of standing and sitting and have the ability to lift items up to 25lbs. is required.
• Requires normal/corrected vision and hearing.
• Position will require travel.
• Periodic participation in activities to support Legacy Early College is required.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Position will have periods of extended work week hours, which is required to support both the ongoing development of the region and the delivery of high quality education for all students.

General Sign-off
The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies. Duties may be changed at the discretion of Legacy Early College at any time.

Statement of Non-Discrimination
Legacy Early College is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment. Legacy Early College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Malpractice insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

• Emergency Medicine
• Pediatrics

Physical Setting:

• School

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
We follow CDC guidelines.

Application Question(s):

• Have you been employed by Legacy Early College before?
• How soon can you start after receiving an offer letter? 1-2 weeks? 2-4 weeks? 4-8 weeks?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• School Nursing: 2 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Conversational Spanish (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN (Required)

Work Location: One location