School Nurse

Job Description

School Nurse

Location: Thornwood, New York

Reports to: Head of School

Compensation: $65,000 - $80,000 (commensurate with experience and qualifications)

Housing: On-campus housing may be available for interested candidates

Schedule: Full-Time | 3 days a week, 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM (includes some evening/overnight on-call responsibilities), 10-month position
Welcome to EF Academy

At EF Academy Thornwood, our campus is much more than a school. It is a vibrant, global home away from home for students from every corner of the world. We believe bright minds truly flourish when students feel healthy, supported, safe, and cared for.

As our School Nurse , you will be at the heart of our residential community. Beyond managing our Health Center, you will serve as a comforting, dependable presence for teenagers who are navigating high school, often while living away from their families for the first time. If you bring clinical excellence, a warm heart, and a genuine love for supporting young adults in a multicultural setting, we would love to welcome you to our school family.
How You'll Care for Our Community
Compassionate Clinical Care & Student Wellness

• Care with Heart: Warmly assess, triage, and care for students visiting the Health Center with acute illnesses, minor injuries, or ongoing health needs, offering a comforting and skilled presence.
• Proactive Wellness: Empower students with supportive guidance on healthy everyday habits, including nutrition, hydration, sleep, illness prevention, and managing stress.
• Specialized Care & Referrals: Recognize when a student needs care beyond the Health Center and coordinate warm referrals to trusted primary care doctors, urgent care, specialists, or emergency services.
• Attentive Follow-Up: Provide thoughtful ongoing care and monitoring for students as they recover from an illness, injury, or hospital visit, helping them transition back into campus life.
• Thorough Documentation: Maintain accurate, thoughtful, and strictly confidential records of student visits, assessments, and follow-up care.

Healthcare Coordination & Family Support

• Partnering with Families: Communicate with empathy, clarity, and reassurance to parents and guardians regarding significant health updates, medical appointments, or ongoing concerns across time zones.
• Guiding Global Students: Patiently help our international students navigate the U.S. healthcare system, offering culturally sensitive guidance every step of the way.
• Collaborative Care: Partner closely with residential life staff, athletic coaches, counseling, faculty, and outside healthcare providers to build a strong safety net around each student.
• Seamless Appointments: Help coordinate student medical appointments, specialists, medical clearances, and transportation with local healthcare providers.
• Confidentiality & Trust: Share necessary health information with school staff on a need-to-know basis to ensure student safety, while fiercely protecting student privacy.

Emergency Preparedness & Campus Support

• Responsive Emergency Care: Serve as a calm, confident responder to medical emergencies across campus, coordinating seamlessly with EMS and local emergency providers when necessary.
• Safety Preparedness: Maintain campus emergency readiness, including the oversight of AEDs, first-aid equipment, and Health Center medical supplies.
• Empowering Staff: Provide clear guidance and training for residential staff regarding evening and weekend health protocols, basic first aid, emergency response, and EpiPen administration.
• Athletic Care: Support our student-athletes by assessing and caring for sports injuries, collaborating with coaches and residential staff on treatment plans and safe return-to-play protocols.

Health Center Operations & Everyday Excellence

• Welcoming Environment: Oversee the daily operations of the Health Center, ensuring it remains an organized, spotlessly safe, and comforting space for students.
• Safe Medication Management: Carefully authorize, administer, secure, and document prescription and over-the-counter medications in full accordance with medical orders and regulations.
• Health Records Oversight: Keep complete, up-to-date health records-including immunizations, physical exams, and health histories, ensuring strict compliance with privacy laws and school policies.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously refine Health Center workflows and protocols to elevate student safety and care quality.
• Professional Growth: Maintain current licensure, certifications, and active engagement in professional development to bring best practices to our campus.

Who You Are
Professional Qualifications

• Licensure: Current and unrestricted New York State Registered Professional Nurse (RN) license and registration.
• Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited nursing program.
• Certifications: Current CPR/AED and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Clinical Expertise: Demonstrated nursing experience with strong knowledge of clinical assessment, first aid, medication administration, infection control, and emergency response.
• Privacy & Compliance: Solid understanding of health record privacy, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Relational Skills: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a natural ability to build trusting relationships with teenagers, parents, colleagues, and healthcare providers.
• Multicultural Heart: Enthusiasm for working with adolescents in an international, multicultural residential community, where students are living away from home.
• Calm Leadership: Demonstrated ability to exercise sound clinical judgment, stay calm under pressure, collaborate warmly with colleagues, and foster a student-centered environment.

Preferred Experience

• 2 or more years of nursing experience, ideally in a school, pediatric, adolescent, residential, or boarding school environment.
• Experience working with international students, residential boarding populations, and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Language Skills: Fluency in a second language is highly preferred to support our global student body and international families.

Personal Qualities

• Compassionate & Student-Centered: You naturally put student well-being at the heart of everything you do.
• Calm & Reassuring: You bring steady, professional composure to fast-paced or emergent situations.
• Dependable & Organized: You are detail-oriented, discreet, and take pride in managing care and records seamlessly.
• Collaborative & Adaptable: You love being part of a team, communicate transparently, and enjoy the dynamic rhythm of a residential school community.

What We Offer

• Compensation: $65,000 - $80,000 annually, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Schedule: 3 days per week (8:30 AM - 8:30 PM), with shared evening/overnight on-call responsibilities.
• On-Campus Housing: On-campus housing may be available for interested candidates seeking to fully immerse themselves in our residential community.
• A Global Home: A warm, inclusive, and culturally rich work environment backed by EF Education First's mission of opening the world through education.

Why you'll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!

This is the most fun, high caliber place you'll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they've been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they'll probably tell you the same thing: it's the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support.

In addition, you can expect:

• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
• Two personal days, five sick days, school breaks with some shared responsibilities
• 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to fertility care and family-building support
• Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
• Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)

About EF Education First

EF is committed to cultural immersion and international education, fostering a diverse and inclusive community. EF welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and is an equal-opportunity employer.

To learn more about our school and global community, visit

About Us

Some companies are in the business of banking. Others are in the business of shoes. Or sports. Or soft drinks. At EF, we're in a different kind of business. One that's a little less tangible, and a lot more important. Because our business, what we make, makes everything else possible. We're in the business of understanding. Between people. Between cultures.

For over half a century we've been the leader in international educational programs and experiences designed to foster such understanding. Through language, cultural exchange, academic studies, and educational travel, we create the kinds of immersive experiences that challenge biases, open minds, and pave the way for a more understanding world.


You'll find our offices and schools located in some of the world's greatest cities, and filled with smart, driven people (over 50,000 of us) who push each other to be better every day. But it's what we do together - building greater understanding, breaking down barriers, and creating a better world - that makes all the difference.


Founded in 1965 in Sweden, EF (Education First) is a global association of education companies that share a common mission of opening the world through education. EF has been recognized on Forbes 2025 and 2024 World's Best Employers and 2024 Top Companies for Women lists, Fast Company's 2025 Next Big Things In Tech, and was a 2024 App Store Award winner in Cultural Impact.

About the Team

EF Academy is a leading private boarding and day high school, attracting students from around the world to our campuses in Pasadena, New York, and Oxford (England). At EF Academy, we prepare students to thrive academically, personally, and socially helping them build the confidence, skills, and sense of purpose they need to lead fulfilling, successful lives. With a focus on academic excellence, personal growth, and cultural immersion, we empower students to unlock their full potential and develop the lifelong skills they need to thrive in any future they envision.


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