Full Time Licensed REGISTERED NURSE or SCHOOL NURSE
Amazing opportunity to work in a cutting-edge developmental language-based school in Lombard for students with Autism founded by SLPs, with attention to student-centered, meaningful and individualized learning, in a trauma-informed, non-physical restraint, learning environment.
- Full Time position with fantastic on-site hours working 8:00-3:00 Monday through Friday in relationship-based, trauma informed therapeutic day school, working in tandem with other full time Nurse.
- Starting ASAP for the summer session and the 2024-2025 school year.
- Work 44.8 weeks of year.
- Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience.
- BCBS medical, dental and vision.
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance at no cost to employee.
- 7 PTO days per school year.
- 2 paid holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day.
- 403B retirement plan.
- Great team collaboration with colleagues passionate about supporting students and each other!
Make a difference in the life of a child with Autism!
Must be licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation as a Registered Nurse or hold a Professional Educator License as a School Nurse and demonstrate patience and compassion for individual differences of students with special needs in a one-of-a-kind therapeutic day school in Lombard, IL serving students with Autism, ages 5 to 22 years old. Applicant should be a caring and sympathetic individual able to multitask through a variety of difficult situations related to physical, mental, and emotional health needs. Possess excellent listening skills, able to instruct both students and adults about a variety of health issues treatments. Organized and confident individual able to cope with potentially challenging situations.
Soaring Eagle Academy, a not for profit, ISBE approved therapeutic day school, serving students ages 5 through 22 years old, faced with the challenges of Autism, located in Lombard IL, is seeking a FULL-TIME LICENSED REGISTERED NURSE or SCHOOL NURSE starting as soon as possible, to join our growing staff and student body working in person 5 full days for the summer session and the 2024-2025 school year, working in tandem with the other full time Nurse.
The Academy was founded by three Speech Language Pathologists, with an accumulation of over 80 years experience serving children and families with Autism and other related disorders, and a passion to showcase the amazing capacities of students with Autism to interact, communicate, think and learn. SEA is the only school in the world to utilize a Developmental Language approach implementing principles of the DIR® Floor Time model, to understanding and supporting students' social, emotional and academic development. This is a unique opportunity to do cutting edge work with dedicated support staff including SLP, OT, Mental Health, fellow teachers and 1:1 teacher assistants assigned to each student, who understand and support developmental language, sensory motor processing strategies, emotional development, and how they impact children with autism. We believe that the "behaviors" others see as impacting education for these students are a result of their lack of comprehension, inability to communicate, challenges in processing sensory information from their environment and staying regulated around a broad range of emotions.
We are a hands-off school utilizing proactive strategies to interpret the actions and behaviors of students, versus using behavioral methods of time out, consequences and rewards or physical restraint/carry/holds. With our appropriate interpretation of their intentions, appropriate language-based strategies, emotional and sensory supports, and an individualized, multi-sensory, engaging and meaningful curriculum, our students are soaring. Join our team! For more information, please visit our website at www.soaringeagleacademy.org
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Work in tandem with the Full Time School Nurse.
- Lead and support nursing practices, policies and protocols for students and staff related to infectious/communicable disease and current guidance.
- Advise SEA leadership on the school’s response to infectious/communicable disease, as well as, developing policies and protocol as needed.
- Respond to student/staff illness and possible infectious/communicable disease following policies and protocol.
· Administer and monitor effectiveness of prescribed medications, supplements and medical cannabis given at school.
- Review current student files for medical related information and communicate appropriate health information to staff.
- Review new student paperwork for medical related information, monitor all supplies (ex. Epi pen) needed on site and communicate appropriate health information to staff.
- Assist with, train staff in and provide student feedings with G-tubes as needed.
· Providing and/or delegating services including first aid, care for ill students, and emergency care to students and staff
· Acting as a liaison between home and school by communicating with parents regarding students’ health and safety needs
· Developing and maintaining healthcare plans for students who need special nursing interventions during the school day (ie seizure plans, asthma plans, allergy plans, diabetic plans, tube feeding plans)
· Maintain student health records.
· Provide health related education to students and staff in both individual and group settings.
· Participate in school wide institute days.
· Maintain daily communication through nursing notes shared with building principal.
· Determine the impact of students’ contagious illnesses acting to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in the school setting.
· Acting as a member of the school crisis team.
· Monitoring and reporting daily attendance.
· Providing school staff with current information about students’ health concerns and care on a confidential need-to-know basis.
· Communicating regularly with families to acquire up to date health information on each student.
· Following up with families to receive doctors’ reports and information after a release is acquired.
· Writing health updates for all scheduled IEP meetings.
· Recommending modifications within the school environment for students that have health concerns.
· Attending and actively participating in Pods safety meetings when needed.
· Maintaining confidentiality regarding all school and health related issues.
· Assessing staff injuries and making professional recommendations on next steps.
· Signing off on all staff injuries that occur within the building.
· Signing off on all student injuries that occur within the building and communicating with parents.
- Work with leadership regarding medical information and medical needs of new students to ensure all information and supplies are at the academy.
- Review and monitor medical information submitted yearly for all students as part of student registration forms.
- Notify leadership when necessary paperwork is not submitted.
- Contact parents with medically related questions after reviewing student files.
- Communicate appropriate health information obtained from student files and/or parent report/communication to staff.
- Adhere to HIPAA guidelines and standards and the developmental disability and mental health code in regard to confidentiality.
- Assist students and their families to obtain optimum health and well-being through education or referral.
- Serve as an intermediary between school, home, and private physician regarding health status of students as needed.
- Interpret medical evaluations to staff and provide an understanding of implications for the educational performance of students. Ensure that all parents feel comfortable with plans in place to care for their child during school hours.
- Develop and provide training for school staff in the SEA Medication Administration Policy and training to support children with healthcare needs, e.g. asthma, diabetes, seizures or epilepsy. Ensure that staff feel comfortable with plans in place to care for students with medical concerns during school hours.
- Provide support and advice for parents, caregivers and staff on childhood illnesses and the management and control of infection and communicable diseases
- Develop and provide training related to the facility’s policy and procedures regarding student privacy and dignity, disposal of hazardous waste material, procedures for preventing the transmission of blood-borne pathogens, the use of non-violent crisis intervention procedures and the administration of medication.
- Recommend and implement school policies to comply with established health laws such as immunization laws, communicable disease etc.
- Educate staff in understanding students’ allergies, special diets.Keep up to date lists of all allergies, diet restrictions, seizure plans and medications.
- Review all incident reports.
- Build relationships with students, always working to expand your relationship, to support regulation, interaction, comprehension, engagement and learning.
- Attune to, interpret and respond to the students’ intentions providing meaning to their actions.
- Acknowledge and reflect on students’ feelings and behavior in a caring and respectful manner.
- Demonstrate appropriate and modulated affect for a variety of situations to facilitate interaction and learning.
- Ability to wear a facemask or other PPE when required in the building.
- Ability to bend, kneel, sit (on a chair or the floor) and stand, moving easily and quickly from kneel to stand, sit to stand and stand to walk positions.
- Ability to walk up to a mile in distance.
- Ability to run to an urgent situation.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds easily.
- Ability to engage in and support physical activities initiated by a student including but not limited to, jumping, running, climbing, rolling, sitting/lying on the floor, swinging.
- Ability to act and respond to a student’s dysregulation/behavior/combative and aggressive actions (which may include unpredictable physical conduct by the student against you) according to the strategies developed in the student’s Individualized Regulatory Support Plan and Safety Plan.
- Ability to quickly move away from and avoid combative/aggressive actions or behaviors of students.
- Ability to physically follow in close proximity and support a student when he/she flees (runs) during your intervention.
Qualifications
- Licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation as a Registered Nurse or hold a Professional Educator License as a School Nurse.
- Direct experience with special needs population.
- Experience creating student/children healthcare plans including but not limited to seizure, allergy, asthma, tube feeding, etc.
- Experience creating and performing training presentations.
- Experience administering medication to a pediatric/special needs population.
- Experience creating health/medical status reports for special needs population according to state regulations.
- Knowledge and experience in infectious communicable disease within a school setting.
- Willingness to gain knowledge in DIR® Methodology and developmental thinking.
- Ability to work with children and families demonstrating patience, kindness, compassion and empathy.
- Appreciate and respect each child’s challenges and accomplishments.
- Appreciate and respect each parent’s challenges and beliefs.
- Willingness to accept and request direction/guidance and suggestions from others.
- Ability to modulate and demonstrate affect appropriate to the situation to facilitate learning.
- Ability to build relationships with students, always working to expand your relationship, to support regulation, interaction, comprehension, engagement and learning.
- Ability to attune to, interpret and respond to the students’ intentions providing meaning to their actions.
- Ability to acknowledge and reflect on students’ feelings and behavior in a caring and respectful manner.
- Proper professional well-groomed demeanor.
· TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Beginning as soon as possible (Students are in attendance for 220 school days, 181 regular days and 39 summer session days). FULL TIME- Work an hourly regular full-time position with typical hours Monday through Friday 8:00 to 3:00pm. Work a total of 44.8 weeks per year since there are 6 weeks of non-student attendance. Those weeks and holiday days of non-student attendance are unpaid. 2 paid holidays of Christmas and New Year’s Day.
· BENEFITS: Eligible for medical and ancillary benefits for full time position only. Benefits can include BCBS medical, with SEA contributing a portion of the total cost, employee funded dental and vision insurance benefits. Short-term, long-term disability insurance and a life insurance benefit are offered at no cost. 403B Retirement plan option. 7 paid sick and personal days and 2 paid holidays to be utilized by employee.
· SALARY: Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
Physical setting:
Standard shift:
Weekly schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
License/Certification:
- RN License or School Nurse Professional Educator License (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Lombard, IL 60148: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
