Job description last updated: 03/21/2024

Position Summary:   The School Nurse manages the school health program and maintains comprehensive health records for all students. Additionally, the School Nurse is responsible for general nursing work, including providing comprehensive health assessment, managing services to students, providing health counseling to the school community, and collaborating with school personnel and service providers to meet student needs.

District Summary

The William Penn School District is located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon Boroughs. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture and empower all students to become career and/or college ready.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties: 

• Plans, organizes, and monitors the school health program 
• Schedules and conducts medical examinations for students 
• Prepares and maintains comprehensive health histories for students; maintains comprehensive health records for students inclusive of screenings and examinations 
• Conducts annual and periodic health screening tests 
• Provides health counseling for students and the school community Interprets the health status of students to responsible and appropriate parties and counsels them in responding to health problems that interfere with learning; refers students and responsible adults to community resources for health care; conducts follow up procedures to confirm that students are receiving appropriate treatment 
• Provides specialized nursing care for students with chronic conditions, including catheterization, tube feeding, tracheostomy care 
• Maintains the school health room; provides care in cases of illness or injury; provides treatment in accordance with the standing medical orders; advocates for a safe school environment and is alert to potential health and safety hazards 
• Records health program data for evaluation and continuity of services 
• Functions as a member of an interdisciplinary school team including principals, teachers, and counselors Interacts with community organizations and clinics 
• Provides supervision and guidance to staff nurse(s)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge/awareness of own cultural identity and how this influences behavior, and desire to learn about the cultural identity of others. 
• Ability to establish and nurture an environment that promotes cultural competence and equitable treatment of staff, students, and patrons of the District. 
• Ability to understand and hold self and others accountable for promoting and attaining the goals as outlined in Focus Forward 2025. 
• Ability to recognize that each person is a unique individual even as we celebrate their group cultural heritage. 
• Knowledge of PA Core Standards and Eligible Content 
• Knowledge of Instructional Planning Guides as it relates to the instructional block 
• Knowledge of Digital Curriculum components 
• Ability to courageously lead conversations focused on equity, closing opportunity gaps, and equal access to technology-infused lessons of rigor. 
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with District staff and administrators, students, parents or guardians, outside agencies, and the public, in a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multilingual environment. 
• Ability to receive and implement feedback to improve practice and systems.

Required Qualifications:

• BSN
• Valid registered professional nurse license issued by the State Board of Nursing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
• Valid Pennsylvania School Nurse Certification or confirmed pathway to certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Education or a related field of study
• 2+ years of experience teaching in education environments

Pre-employment Paperwork Requirements:

• Pennsylvania Criminal Background Check, FBI Fingerprinting Background Check, Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
• Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release (Act 168) forms 
• School Personnel Health Record and TB test

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements:

• Work scheduled hours on a consistent basis
• Indoor office environment is subject to frequent interruptions
• Pushing, moving and lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a variety of standard office equipment
• Clarity of vision at varying distances
• Verbal, auditory and written capabilities to effectively communicate in an articulate manner
• Sitting and standing for extended periods of time
• Frequent sitting, standing and walking
• Reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies
• Lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
• Occasional bending, reaching and stretching
• Occasional kneeling, crouching and squatting
• Occasional pulling, pushing

Level of Compensation: $50,119 - $101,320 (dependent on Step and Track placement as determined based on collective bargaining agreements)

Disclaimer:

The preceding list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the scope of responsibility, and the level of knowledge and skills typically required, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements, skills or duties so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed.

All employment open positions are made available on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability, or veteran status.

Job descriptions are written as a representative list of the ADA essential duties performed by the entire classification. They cannot include and are not intended to include, every possible activity and task performed by every specific employee.