Part Time School Nurse

Title: Part Time School Nurse
Location: CICS Bucktown 2235 N Hamilton Ave Chicago IL 60647
Reports To: Principal
Salary: Starting at $55000 commensurate with experience
Employee Type: Regular Full Time
Start Date: August 2025

Distinctive Schools creates diverse joyful welcoming communities rooted in social justice and rigorous learning. We support all learners to be engaged curious and to achieve their full potential. Our students become confident advocates creative problemsolvers and collaborative leaders.

Position Overview

A Distinctive Schools Nurse holds as their top priority the health safety and medical wellbeing of the students and staff at the school. A Nurse will provide direct professional nursing services first aid illness and emergency care to students and staff in response to the nursing assessment and in accordance with professional standards school policies and procedures and state and local mandates.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct healthcare services such as first aid illness treatment and emergency care to students
• Prepare health assessment on students
• Identify health problems make referrals for diagnosis and treatment develop educational modifications provide followup and evaluation and maintain appropriate documentation
• Provides counseling and followup services to students with disabilities as delineated in the IEP/504
• Follow up on homebound students needing related health care services
• Provide intervention in times of school crisis i.e. death suicide traumatic events
• Initiate encourage and participate in health education programs for children
• Provide health counseling to parents of students with health conditions and provide individual and group health counseling to students with health conditions
• Develop the medication protocol to safely store administer document and monitor the effectiveness of the medication given at school
• Coordinate activities of local schools concerned with communicable disease regulations
• Assist with the State and Federal mandated screenings and provides followup for deficits in vision hearing growth and development and other physical impairment
• Maintain accurate records (Maintain an inventory of materials assessments and supplies)
• Update daily progress notes
• Update weekly documentation of all services delivered

Requirements (minimum)

Education: Associates Degree in Nursing and RN license

Qualifications:

• CPR certified
• Valid Illinois nursing license (Certification as a school nurse OR begins certification process once hired)

Physical demands: Occasional lifting carrying pushing and/or pulling; some stooping kneeling crouching and/or crawling; and significant fine finger dexterity. Generally the job requires 10% sitting 50% walking and 40% standing.

Description Disclaimer: Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job reasonably required for its performance or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholders responsibility.

EEO: Distinctive Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race color religion sex gender national origin age disability veteran status marital status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law.

Distinctive Schools is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment Distinctive Schools will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process to perform the essential functions of the position and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment please contact or call 773.828.4191