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Pennsylvania School Nurse (ISPA)

Employer
K12 Inc.
Location
Pennsylvania, United States
Salary
Competitive

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Job Category
Support Staff, School Nurse
WHO ARE WE?



  • About us


  • K12 Produces Results


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Get to know ISPA !





  • Insight PA Cyber Charter School


  • Behind the scenes


  • A Day in the life


K12 believes in Education for Any One. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

Passionate Educators are needed at the K12 partner school, Insight PA Cyber Charter School. We want you to be a part of our talented team!

The mission of Insight PA Cyber Charter School is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community. Join us!.

The Nurse provides preventive health services to support the education process by working to assure the health of students in a manner that promotes optimal physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development. The nurse identifies problems and disabilities and provides such services as case finding, health education, referring and care in order to help prevent serious health problems which could later be more difficult and costly to address.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Promotes and protects the optimal health status of all students;
  • Provides health assessments; Screens and evaluates findings of deficit in vision, hearing, scoliosis, growth, etc.; Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessments; Identifies abnormal health findings;
  • Develops and implements a student health plan; Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel; Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow-through; Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies; Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students;
  • Obtains health histories; Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students;
  • Plans and implements school health management protocols; Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses;
  • Provides health education and anticipatory guidance; Provides direct health education, and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health;
  • Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health;
  • Counsels with students concerning problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse in order to facilitate responsible decision-making practices;
  • Follows all state and federal health codes and laws; works to remain compliant with required health regulations;
  • Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction.

Other Duties and Responsibilities: The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required; other duties may be assigned.
  • Participates in home visits to assess the family needs as related to the child’s health;
  • Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases;
  • Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community;
  • Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers;
  • Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices;
  • Provides consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school district;
  • Where applicable, participates in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Required Qualifications:
  • Certified School Nurse ( CSN) PK-12 Level 1 AND
  • Two (2) years of experience as school nurse OR
  • Equivalent combination of education and related experience
  • Meets all criteria for employment in a PA public school, including satisfactory PA child abuse, PA criminal record, and FBI background check reports

Certificates and Licenses:

Qualified to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Pennsylvania, holds an unrestricted license; Certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or Basic Life Support (BLS).

**Certified School Nurse (CSN) Required for this position**

Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working in cyber education

Minimum Required Skill Set
  • Strong presentation, facilitation and organization skills
  • Interpersonal skills to create collaborative, working relationships with essential school stakeholders
  • Effective communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
  • Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.); Web proficiency.
  • An ability to learn new technology tools quickly

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • This is a flexible position with opportunities for in-office or remote work options. The noise level in the office is usually moderate (computers, printers, light foot traffic).
  • This position will include limited travel and will include limited overnight travel. This is estimated to be less than 10% of the time. Travel will be required for community events, PD and state testing.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

K12 is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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