<p>Job Description:</p> <p>Bethel Public Schools has a vacancy for your consideration. Please find the details below.</p> <p>2025-26 School Nurse (Part-Time) Apply Online</p> <p>Category: Student Support Services/School Nurse</p> <p>Date Posted: 6/5/2025</p> <p>Location: Middle School</p> <p>Date of Availability: 2025-2026</p> <p>Date Closing: Until filled</p> <p>Bethel Public Schools • Bethel, CT</p> <p>Position Title:</p> <p>School Nurse (Part-Time)</p> <p>Hours:</p> <p>This is a part-time position, working approximately 3 to 3.5 hours per day, Monday through Friday, during the school year.</p> <p>Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Registered professional nurse, currently licensed by the State of Connecticut and meeting the State requirements for qualification as a school nurse in Connecticut. [C.G.S. Sec 10-212.] </li><li>No less than one year's full-time experience as a registered nurse within the last five (5) years immediately prior to employment. </li></ul> <p>Reports To:</p> <p>Coordinator of Health Services and School Principal</p> <p>Job Goal:</p> <p>To promote the health and well-being of students and staff.</p> <p>Performance Responsibilities:</p> <p>Promotes and maintains student health through:</p> <ul> <li>Facilitating positive student responses to typical development </li><li>Collaborating with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning </li><li>Providing health counseling and guidance to students and parents </li><li>Assisting with the instruction of health education and serving as a resource person in matters pertaining to health education and development of health curriculum </li><li>Promoting health and safety in the school setting </li><li>Providing case management services </li><li>Consulting with community health care providers regarding student health matters </li><li>Consulting with school staff as necessary related to student health problems </li></ul> <p>Additional Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Provides first aid treatment of accidents and care of illnesses that occur in school </li><li>Ensures that student health assessments and immunizations as required by State law are current according to regulations </li><li>At the high school, certifies to the athletic coaches that all athletes have obtained a health assessment and are cleared medically to participate in the sports program </li><li>Conducts district's student health screenings required by current law </li><li>Maintains up-to-date cumulative health records of all students according to district procedures </li><li>Maintains data on health interventions for district reporting </li><li>Reports on student health assessment and health status as necessary to the planning and placement team </li><li>Initiates staff, student, and visitor accident reports and reports such incidents according to district policy </li><li>Observes the school environment and recommends changes necessary to maintain optimum health and safety of students and school personnel </li><li>Provides information necessary for school health surveys and reports as required by Connecticut State Departments of Education and Health </li><li>Assists with any special immunization clinics as ordered by the school physician </li><li>Keeps current in best practices in school nursing and in particular, issues regarding the health and well-being of school-aged children </li><li>Carries out other duties as assigned by the Coordinator of Health Services </li></ul> <p>Term of Employment:</p> <p>Ten-month, part-time position (3 to 3.5 hours/day, Monday-Friday)</p> <p>Bethel Public Schools uses the applicant tracking system from Frontline Education to manage employment applications online.</p>