St. Mark’s seeks an organized registered nurse to serve as its School Nurse. The School Nurse promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children, including physical, mental, emotional, and social growth and development.  The School Nurse is responsible for nursing care of students, managing and reporting student health records, promoting healthy practices, maintaining first aid supplies, organizing vaccine clinics, and sharing recommendations from state and federal authorities. 

Duties:

• Assesses severity and provides nursing care for students with injuries and illnesses.
• Distributes appropriate daily, as-needed, and emergency medications to students.
• Cares for students with chronic conditions such as asthma, allergies/anaphylaxis, diabetes, and epilepsy/seizures, and works with faculty to ensure a safe learning environment.
• Works with the School Counselor to provide mental health support to students in need.
• Promotes healthy practices and assists in the control of communicable diseases, including organization of an annual immunization clinic.
• Manages student health records in our electronic medical record system.
• Ensures all students are up to date on their required immunizations.
• Provides health assessments through screening evaluations and observations.
• Collects health data and reports to local and state officials when required.
• Provides health education, anticipatory guidance, and connections to outside health resources.
• Maintains first aid and emergency medical supplies.
• Serves as a resource for health education in the classroom.
• Collaborates with School administration to implement systems for optimal safety and wellness.

Required Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in nursing
• A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Texas
• Five-plus years of experience, preferably in pediatrics
• A joyous approach to working with students aged 18 months through 8th grade

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• This is a 12-month position with hours of 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM.
• Works in a sometimes highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Physical agility to lift up to 50 pounds; to bend, stoop, and reach overhead.
• Works primarily in a traditional climate controlled office environment with occasional outside work.

Acknowledgments

In the event you are invited for an interview, the following items are required for further consideration:

• A copy of your college transcript.
• A completed and signed Background inquiry release. This is a criminal check that is required of all employees by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. St. Mark's Episcopal School will provide this document to you.
• Evidence of citizenship or a legal work permit.

I CERTIFY THAT THE INFORMATION I HAVE LISTED IS CORRECT. I FURTHER UNDERSTAND THAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE REQUIRED AND THAT THE SUBMISSION OF THIS APPLICATION DOES NOT GUARANTEE AN INTERVIEW OR JOB OFFER. I UNDERSTAND THAT ST. MARK'S WILL KEEP MY APPLICATION ON FILE FOR ONE YEAR.

WE ARE AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

I understand that the School is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, handicap or disability, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

I authorize former and present employers, and professional, work, and personal references listed in the application and any other individuals I may name, to give the School or its designee any and all information concerning my previous employment and any pertinent information they may have, personal or otherwise and release such parties from all liability for any damages that may result from furnishing same to the School. I also authorize the School to provide truthful information concerning my employment with it to future employers and I agree to hold it harmless for providing such information.

I understand that the School reserves the right, to the extent permitted by law, to require drug and alcohol screening tests of an applicant or an employee either prior to employment or any time during employment and I hereby give my consent to any such tests. I consent to the release of the results of any such tests to the School or its designee. I release the School and its designee from any and all liability and damages which may result or arise from any drug test or the provision of information in connection with such a test.

I understand that this employment application and any other School documents are not promises of employment. If I am hired and not employed pursuant to a contract of employment that contains a specific duration of employment, I understand that my employment will be on a trial period for ninety (90) days from the date of my hiring and that I will remain an at-will employee thereafter. I further understand that, if I am employed, I can terminate my employment at any time with or without cause and with or without advance notice, and that the School has a similar right. I understand that no manager, representative, or agent of the School has any authority to enter into any agreement for employment for any specified period of time, or to make any agreement contrary to the foregoing, except that the Head of School may do so in writing. If I am hired under a contract, the contract will control the terms of my employment.

The information given by me on this application and during the interview process is true and complete in all respects, and I agree that if the information is found to be false, misleading, or unsatisfactory in any respect (in the School’s judgment) that I will be disqualified from consideration for employment or subject to immediate dismissal if discovered after I am hired.

THIS APPLICATION WILL BE CONSIDERED “ACTIVE” FOR A MAXIMUM OF ONE YEAR. IF YOU WISH TO BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT AFTER THAT TIME, YOU MUST REAPPLY. DO NOT SIGN UNTIL YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE STATEMENTS.

By completing this application, I am acknowledging that I have read and accepted the statements above.