# School Nurse

**Company**: ACCEL Schools
**Location**: Eastland Preparatory Academy
**Salary**: $55,000 - 60,000
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

ACCEL Schools is hiring a highly qualified School Nurse at Eastland Preparatory Academy in Columbus, Ohio.

The School Nurse is the primary health contact for all physical and mental health records and services.

Responsibilities and qualities of the School Nurse include:

- Promoting and protecting student health

- Planning and implementing school health management protocols

- Initiating referrals to parents, school personnel, or community health resources for intervention, remediation, and follow-through

- Ensuring student health records are maintained in a thorough, timely, and compliant manner

- Providing basic healthcare to students in case of injury or acute illness

- Creating and maintaining a log of visits to the school's health clinic

- Contacting parents and guardians to notify them of a child's illness

- Maintaining student medications in a safe and compliant manner

- Communicating with parents and guardians to ensure an adequate supply of student medications are available

- Procuring and maintaining health clinic supplies

- Maintaining an inventory of spare clothing and student uniforms for emergency purposes

- Scheduling annual vision and hearing exams for eligible students

- Scheduling biannual preventative and restorative dental exams for eligible students

- Developing and maintaining health service partnerships

- Developing and delivering student health and wellness professional development to the school community

- Conducting home visits as needed

- Staying abreast of changing school nurse practices

Requirements:

- Licensed Practical Nurse

- Fluency with State and local laws relating to health and social issues

- Experience working with children, including teenagers

- Experience working in an education setting is a plus

- Knowledge of school nurse practices

- Proficiency in using multiple office and database programs, including Microsoft products (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

- Strong attention to detail

- High-quality written and verbal communication skills

- Understanding and ability to manage confidential information

- Availability and willingness to work occasional nights or weekends

- Ability to pass federal, state, and local background checks

Benefits:

- Compensation: $55,000 - 60,000

- Paid time off

- Retirement contributions

- Optional Basic Life and AD&D insurance

- Voluntary life insurance (employee, spouse, child)

- Discounted childcare at Early Learning Academies locations

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- Employee Assistance Program

- Voluntary short-term disability insurance

- Voluntary long-term disability insurance

- Career advancement opportunities

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## Skills

### Required
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- Microsoft Office
- school nurse practices
- health and social issues

### Nice to have
- experience working in an education setting

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