Nursing Coordinator

**Must apply online: https://carthagetigers.org/employment

Position: School Nurse Coordinator

Term: Full-time, 220 Days

Classification: Classified/Exempt

Location: Welcome Center

Qualifications: RN License, required; BSN degree, preferred; Minimum of 4 Years of Clinical Experience or Experience as a School Nurse, preferred; CPR and First Aid Certified, required; Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google products;

Supervisory: Yes

Reports to: Director of Special Services

The job responsibility of the Nurse Coordinator is to perform supervisory and planning duties for School Nurses as well as serve as a Building Nurse during Summer School and other times as needed.

General Expectations:

• Supports the mission of Carthage R-9 School District.
• Supports the value of education.
• Become familiar with, enforce, and follow all applicable Board policies and regulations, administrative procedures, other directions given by district administrators and supervisors, and state and federal laws.
• Properly supervise students at all times, if applicable to essential job functions.
• Obey all safety rules, including rules protecting the safety and welfare of students.
• Care for, properly use, and protect school property.
• Maintain courteous and professional relationships with students, parents/guardians, other district employees and the public.
• Communicate effectively with supervisors, department staff, all members of the school district, and community as required.
• Provides excellence in customer service both internally and externally.
• Complies with privacy rights and safeguards confidential and/or sensitive information pertaining to staff and students.
• Reacts to change productively and receive and transmit constructive criticism as it relates to job duties.
• Actively participate in professional development and obtain skills and information necessary to effectively perform job duties.
• Conduct all official business in a professional and timely manner, utilizing district technology resources.
• Arrive to work and leave work at the time specified by supervisors and attend all required meetings pertinent to the position.
• Maintains accurate records and filing systems for accountability and audit purposes as required by law and Board policy.
• Solve practical problems as needed to complete job duties.
• Read and interpret documents such as work orders, safety rules, and handbooks and apply to job duties.

Essential Functions:

• Provide professional direction, support, and leadership to health services personnel as well as address health and safety issues district-wide.
• Assist families in obtaining immunization compliance by connecting them with helpful and appropriate resources
• Perform supervisory and planning duties for School Nurses, directing their work and arranging substitutes as needed. Serve as a School Nurse when a substitute is unavailable.
• Collaborate with Building Principals in interviews and evaluations of School Nurses. Provide training for new hires and providing professional development for School Nurses as needed.
• Ensure compliance to District policies as well as applicable law.
• Promote health and wellness among students and staff, as well as focusing on the early detection and appropriate management of health concerns, collaborating with community agencies as needed.
• Serve as a liaison to community agencies, CDC, and local health departments as needed.
• Ensure student medical records are kept accurately and comprehensively.
• Protect the health status of students and staff though functions in the area of health services, health education, and maintenance of a healthy school environment at the building level.
• Provide health assessments and implement health plans and procedures.
• Provide direct nursing intervention including first aid responding and regular monitoring as needed.
• Compile data on injuries in the school setting.
• Ensure that each student complies with the immunization requirements of the State of Missouri.
• Assist in coordinating and participating in health/wellness projects.
• Provide professional direction, support, and leadership to health services personnel as well as addressing health and safety issues district wide.
• Continuously focus on effectively managing the health services program, working closely with district administrators and health services personnel in the development and/or improvement of health-related policies and procedures.
• Communicate with state, regional and local health professionals concerning school health issues and utilize the information to improve the health services program.
• Order health service supplies for the district.
• Be available in the office or on a cell phone for emergency calls throughout the District.
• Administer appropriate level of first aid for illness and injury, including CPR, when necessary.
• Carry out all other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand or sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. The employee must be able to lift 25 pounds.

Attendance

Regular and consistent attendance is an essential function of this position.

The work conditions and environment described here are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Conditions and Environment

The individual who holds this position will regularly work in a school environment that is noisy and active. Occasionally the individual will be required to work outdoors for short periods of time to perform such tasks as loading and unloading students from district transportation.

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

Carthage R-9 School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not illegally discriminate in its programs, services, activities or facilities.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $26.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• In-person

Work Location: In person

Salary : $26