What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff/Float Nurse (Part-time) position at Unionville-Chadds Ford School District?
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District
District Wide - Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Open in Googles
Job Details
Job ID:4918057Application Deadline:Posted until filled
Posted:Jan 2, 2025
Starting Date:Immediately
Job Description
Staff/Float Nurse (Part-time)
District-Wide
7 hours per day x 117 days per year (3 days per week)
Salary $33.94/hour
Available Immediately
OPEN UNTIL FILLED
QUALIFICATIONS: To successfully perform this position, a person must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
- Candidate must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and hold a proper Pennsylvania certification for the position
- Current PA Registered Nurse license
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN)
- CPR/AED certification
- Background/experience preferred in first aid, pediatric nursing, community health nursing, critical care nursing, medical-surgical nursing, and/or emergency room nursing
- Knowledge of current Child Abuse Law
- Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements.
- Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Employee must have the ability to perform the following essential functions on a timely basis with or without reasonable accommodations.
- Provide nursing services at all six school buildings on rotating schedule and where needed as a substitute.
- Provides direct services to students, using the nursing process to provide care to the school community in accordance with the current medical practice and nursing standards, relevant statutes, and regulations.
- Performs and/or oversees mandated screenings and completes referrals and follow-up where applicable.
- Manages and controls acute and chronic disease. Carries out policies and procedures for the control of communicable diseases, in collaboration with the PA Department of Health.
- Provides first aid for illness or injury to students and documents nursing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
- May establish health care plans for students with special health care needs and update them as needed.
- Reviews and monitors student immunization status. Makes appropriate referrals to update immunizations when indicated.
- Provides health teaching and counseling.
- Maintains comprehensive health records on each child and records of school nursing services.
- Assists in interpreting the health needs of individual children to parents and teachers and assists families in utilizing community resources for improving the health of their children.
- Administers medications and performs procedures according to physician orders and school district policies and procedures. Ensures physician orders for individual student medications and/or treatments comply with requirements for administration.
- Informs teachers of health conditions of pupils which may affect behavior, appearance, or scholastic performance.
- Makes contact with physicians to discuss students on Homebound Education, Instruction in the Home, and 504 plans.
- Works with Concussion Management Team to manage students with concussions.
- May assist students with hygiene and bath rooming needs.
- Working with at-risk students.
- Collaborates with agencies within and outside of the school community to insure continuity of service and care of students, including working with private physicians and dentists to coordinate private medical examinations with the school program
- Identifies high-risk children to needed services, including students presenting with signs of child abuse.
- May actively participate in the Student Assistance Program; Child Study Team; individual education program meetings for exceptional students with medical or developmental problems; Chapter 14 and 15 review and evaluation teams; and/or provide information to these teams as required.
This position description does not express or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent(s) in this position. Employee(s) will be required to complete other job-related duties requested by the supervisor.
Clearances required for employment:
Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance (Act 151)
Pennsylvania State Criminal Record Check (Act 34)
Federal Criminal History Record Check (Act 114)
Act 168 Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release: Unionville-Chadds Ford School District uses an online process for submission and processing of required Act 168 forms. Candidates will receive information as necessary during the selection process.
The Unionville-Chadds Ford School District is an equal opportunity employment, educational and service organization.
Position Type:Part-Time
Positions Available:1
Salary:$33.94 Per Hour
Job Categories:
Student Services > School Nurse
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