PRN School Nurse (2024-2025 School Year)

Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective, highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations, Authentic Learning, Creative Culture, and Educational Equity.

Crossroads Charter Schools organization is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to sex, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other factor prohibited by law.

Job Description: PRN School Nurse 

Direct Supervisor:  Principal, or designee (Lead Nurse or Building Nurse)

School Summary:
At Crossroads Charter Schools, we…

• Understand the significant difference between equity and equality. Every student deserves to receive what he/she needs to succeed (equity), not that every student receives the same amount of resources, instruction, attention, etc. (equality).
• Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
• Interrupt the “school to prison pipeline” – policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
• Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
• Build the capacity of diverse teams that are more reflective of our students.
• Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional and often difficult. 
• Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning

Position Summary:

This is a Contract position.

School Nurses strengthen and help to facilitate the educational process by identifying and working to alleviate or minimize the effects of health related barriers to learning in individual students. A PRN School Nurse will be active in supporting the building Nurses in implementing the school health program and promoting wellness for students and staff. PRN School Nurses at Crossroads Charter Schools will oversee the health and wellbeing of students as needed when the designated building nurse is unavailable.  All duties are to be performed in accordance with standards of professional nursing care and practices, district/state board of education policies and procedures and Missouri State Nursing Practice Act. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide professional nursing services, first aid, illness and emergency care to students, guided by the nursing process and sound decision-making process in accordance with school policies and procedures.
• Provide emergency response and first aid; must be able to perform CPR and use an AED. 
• Administer medication with appropriate safety-checks and documentation.
• Maintain accurate student health office visit documentation.
• Follow procedures for suspected cases of child abuse and neglect. 
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.

Expectations for Availability:

• PRN School Nurses will be available to substitute for the building nurses. In most cases, building nurses will be able to give advance notice for planned absences. In some cases, such as with illness or unexpected life events, a building nurse may need to request coverage last-minute. 
• PRN School Nurse will need to be reasonably available Mondays-Fridays during the school year. It’s expected that the PRN Nurse may not always be available to substitute because of other engagements/duties. 
• Staff hours for the elementary buildings are 8am-4:30pm, and 7:15am-3:00pm. Occasionally, a partial day of coverage may be requested. 
• PRN Nurse may also be requested to assist with other nursing duties, such as immunization entry, health screenings, etc., as available. 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• Licensed in the State of Missouri as a Registered Nurse.
• Graduation from an accredited program with either an associate’s degree in Nursing (ADN) or a Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree (BSN). 
• Current CPR/AED certified.
• Must be proficient in the use of email, the internet, and Google Apps, and be able to apply these skills towards the necessary organization, documentation and communication requirements of this position.
• Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities.
• An ability and enthusiasm for promoting the school and its mission to a broad and diverse group of people. 
• Excellent work ethic, positive attitude, flexibility and willingness to perform tasks assigned
• Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in school environment and community. 
• Must pass extensive background check and drug screening.
• Preference given to those with experience working in a school setting or in pediatrics.
• All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at:  http://www.crossroadsschoolskc.org/careers

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully

perform the essential functions of this job. Must be able to walk 4 blocks at a time to travel between school locations and respond

to emergencies at recess locations. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to

perform the essential functions. 

Key Working Relationships in Addition to Supervisor:

Teachers, Students, Parents, Volunteers, Office Staff, Support Staff, Assistant Principals, Principals, District Leadership Team, Central Office Team

Both federal and state law requires all public school personnel to submit to and pass a criminal background check prior to employment by the school.  Crossroads Charter Schools is required by law to exclude from employment any person who has pleaded to or been found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of the State of Missouri, any other State of the United States or any other country, whether or not a sentence is or was imposed.

Please be advised that Crossroads Charter Schools does not seek information related to the conviction of crimes unrelated to those described in this question.  Your conviction of a crime not otherwise listed above is not an automatic disqualification from employment consideration.  The school will consider the nature of the offense and the relationship between the offense and the position for which you are applying.