School Nurse (RN) - Intensive Treatment Program

Are you a compassionate and skilled healthcare professional looking to get into an Education setting? 🩹💊🩺💙

Victory Learning Center at Ridge (Intensive Treatment Program) is seeking a dedicated School Nurse to provide exceptional care, promote wellness, and create a safe, nurturing environment for our students and staff. Our Intensive Treatment Program covers students ages 5-21 in Lackawanna, NY (just 10 minutes south of Buffalo)! Our Intensive Treatment Education Program, operating two different schools, offers specialized educational services for students who are diagnosed with Autism or a Cognitive Disability paired with a mental health diagnosis.  

To learn more about our school-based Intensive Treatment Program (ITP), click here: https://olvedu.org/itp-school

Benefits:

• Paid School Breaks (approximately 7 weeks!)
• Paid Holidays
• Additional Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Health, dental & vision insurance options
• Paid Employer sponsored life insurance
• Supplemental insurance programs for additional life insurance, short-term disability, accident & cancer insurance
• Up to $600 every year for completing biometric health screenings on a single health insurance plan & up to $1,200 if a spouse completes too!
• Free dental insurance

Perks:

• Small class sizes (6 students, 1 teacher and 3 behavior support technicians per classroom)
• Casual dress code
• OLV Tuition Reimbursement up to $7,200
• Qualifying Non-For-Profit for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program (click here to learn more: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation)
• Take advantage of our Dental & Outpatient Mental Health services while working
• Up to $180 annual gym reimbursement
• $$ Employee referral program $$

Additional Information:

• Schedule: Monday-Friday 
• Pay Rate: Based on relevant years of licensed experience

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FULL JOB DESCRIPTON

Job Summary:
The Registered Nurse is an integral part of the Baker Victory School program in supporting an optimum physical, mental, emotional and social climate for all students and staff. The school nurse acts as an educator, advocate, liaison and consultant on health related issues for students, families and school personnel.

Essential Job Duties:
1. Conduct medical assessment of individuals.
2. Decide interventions following the nursing process.
3. Provide education on medical issues and concerns to individuals, their families and employees as indicated on their plan of care and diagnosis.
4. Monitor the medical states of the individuals of their care and adjust as appropriate.
5. Perform any other duties listed on the daily/weekly/monthly/semi-annually/annually site specific responsibility checklist.
6. Participates as the health specialist in the child education evaluation team to develop the health individualized educational plan. (I.E.P.)
7. Attends multi-disciplinary team meetings and staff meetings as directed by the principal.
8. Maintains all required health records per school regulation.
9. Any other duty as assigned by supervisor.

Skills:
• Customer skills
• Computer skills
• Monitoring /Assessment skills
 
Competencies:
• Communication: Oral and written
• Decision-making ability: The aptitude to extract, interpret, integrate and manage information correctly and make timely and concise decisions for the best course of action, among multiple alternatives, to enable the decision-making process to take place on a higher level in order to achieve objectives.
• Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms
• Teamwork ability: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job
• Attention to detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks

Education:
Minimum Degree Required: AAS /BSN Degree from an accredited Nursing school
 
Experience:
Minimum Experience Required: 2 years

Required License/Registration/ Certification: NYS RN Licensure
 
Physical Requirements:
The following physical requirements must be evaluated by a physician prior to entry into a Nursing program.  Upon admission to the Nursing program, you will be required at that time to have a physical and have a doctor complete our required form, as to your abilities with regards to these physical requirements. 
•Strength:  Sufficient to assist with lifting and transferring a patient, and perform CPR
•Mobility:  Sufficient mobility to bend, stoop, and bend down to the floor; ability to move around rapidly; and to move in small, confined areas.
•Hearing:  Sufficient to hear through the stethoscope to discriminate sounds; to hear cries for help; to hear alarms on equipment and emergency signals; and various overhead pages.
•Vision:  Sufficient to make physical assessments of patients and equipment.
•Communication:  Able to communicate in both verbal and written formats; and interact with clients, staff, and faculty supervisors.