Full Time Public Health School Nurse

School Nurse (Full time)-Samuel Bowles School

Springfield Public Schools

SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES

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Application Deadline: Sep 02, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Starting Date: Immediately

Nursing

Nursing Administrator

School Nurse (RN) Salary Schedule

To be arranged with the Principal and Nursing Administration of Nursing (In accordance with contractrequirements).

The School Nurse is responsible for direct and indirect nursing care to enhance the wellbeing, academic success, and life-long achievements of students. The School Nurse facilitates positive student responses to normal development, promotes health and safety, intervenes with actual and potential health problems, provides case management services, and actively collaborates with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.

Assess and evaluates students’ health pertinent family history and home factors, counsel students, parents and school personnel about health problems and issues.

Maintain health records, conduct required research, and evaluate school health programs.

Coordinate health resources of school, home, community and allied health agencies/hospitals by making necessary arrangements, maintaining records, notifying and counseling students, parents/guardians and health personnel.

Develop an individual health care plan as needed and coordinate with the other providers and school personnel. Initiate a plan of care with students and family to best meet individual needs.

Provides emergency care for all students and staff on school premises in the event of injury or sudden illness.

Administer prescribed and approved medications to students with parent/guardian and physician consent.

Perform mandated screenings in vision, hearing, scoliosis, and height and weight as deemed appropriate by state and city departments of public health

Documents pertinent information in student records in accordance with Standards of Practice and safeguards documentation utilizing HIPPA and FERPA regulations

Conducts home visits to initiate or follow up on the health care needs of students

Notify appropriate individuals, ie parents, staff, physicians of immediate and potential health related concerns.

Participates in school health related activities as deemed appropriate for school nurse by principal/supervisor

Provide information about health and disease prevention in cooperation with health education programs within Springfield Public Schools

Promotes healthy programs in collaboration with coalitions, associations, CDC and Department of Public Health

Acts as a resource in health education to students and families and refers to appropriate help agencies when necessary

Initiate, promote, maintain and implement programs for the recognition, prevent and control of disease, including giving immunizations.

Responsible for providing the optimum quality of health care to students

Participates in direct and indirect nursing care, health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning and rehabilitation

Promotes student and family education to involve them and significant others within the school system to establish and implement health goals.

Reports and is administratively accountable to Nursing Administration and to the building principal for provision of health services in the building

Must have a current valid, license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Massachusetts.

A minimum of one to two years of child health, community health or other related field. Three years of responsible professional experience in school nursing or a related field preferred.

Must be DOE certified or certifiable by the Department of Education in educator category, Nurse, All Levels. (Our district has over 44 languages spoken and over 60 countries represented by both students and staff. We foster a positive and professional environment in our schools and worksites where people feel valued, respected, supported, seen and heard. We are a district that is committed to equity and excellence.

We let our data shape the professional development of the district, therefore, it is relevant and actionable. We support our teaching staff with mentors such as instructional leadership specialists and effective educator coaches to work with them throughout the year in lesson planning, data analysis and management. Our district offers career advancement opportunities and is invested in “Grow our Own” and educational pipeline programs. These programs help our staff achieve a college degree or lead to certification pathways.

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