Applications will be accepted for school nurse positions in the Westfield Public School District for the 2024 Special Education Extended Year Program. This program is scheduled to begin July 7 2025 and continue for four weeks Monday Thursday (no Friday dates) ending on July 31 2025.
Training Date:July 1 2025 (all staff) 8:30 am 3:00 pm with hour unpaid lunch
No School on FridaysPreference will be given to candidates possessing previous Westfield Public School Summer Program experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Schedule and is present at all school health services including all physical examinations all immunization clinics vision and hearing checks and scoliosis checks.
- Maintain uptodate health records.
- Assume responsibility for informing faculty and staff of those students with special health problems i.e. allergic bee sting diabetic heart petit mal etc.
- Interprets the health status of a pupil to him/her the parents and school personnel without breaching confidentiality.
- Observes students on a regular basis to determine health needs.
- Authorize the exclusion and/or readmission of a student with contagious or infectious diseases.
- Administer first said in accordance with established first aid procedures.
- Assist principal in establishing sanitary conditions within the school.
- Serve as a health consultant and resource person for the classroom teacher conducting healthrelated classes when requested as well as teacher health classes.
- Contact and visit homes of children referred by principal where health related counseling is required.
- Maintain adequate first aid supplies in each school.
- Advise on modification of the educational program to meet health needs of the individual student through the Chapter 766 process.
- Assume authority in the absence of a physician for the care of a student or staff member who has suffered injury or emergency illness.
- Attend committee meetings and conferences regarding health service and health curriculum.
- Participate in inservice training programs.
- Prepare and submit reports for the Superintendent of Schools as required.
- Make formal referrals to specialists when appropriate and conduct followup of the referrals.
- Work with community agencies when necessary.
- Assist in the formation of health policies goals and objectives of the school department.
- Will be trained to do vision and hearing screening with the proper use of equipment.
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned.
This position subject to funding.