School Nurse

Common Ground Is Seeking A School Nurse (full time)

About Common Ground High School

Common Ground High School is the nation’s longest-running environmental charter high school, founded in 1997. Our 230 students form an inclusive, powerful community of learners and leaders. These students benefit from a unique learning environment: an urban farm and 20-acre site, home to state of the art school facilities, adjacent to West Rock Ridge State Park, and located in the City of New Haven. We strive to create a learning environment grounded in foundational building blocks: rigor, responsive relationships, relevance that’s rooted in the local community and environment, and real roles & rights. Common Ground’s graduation rate consistently surpasses the state average, and between 97 and 100% of our students are accepted to college each year.

Common Ground High School is part of a community nonprofit organization that also operates an urban farm and community environmental education center. As a whole, Common Ground is a center for learning and leadership, inviting people across ages and identities to connect to their urban environment, build community, grow into their full potential, and contribute to a just and sustainable world. We work toward this mission through active, authentic learning rooted in justice and our environment: a farm, in a forest, in a city.

About the Position

The SCHOOL NURSE is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services that: maximize the quality of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism, eliminate or minimize health problems that impair learning, and achieve the highest degree of independent functioning possible. The School Nurse adheres to and incorporates the Standards of School Nursing Practice while performing his/her responsibilities, as adopted by the National Association of School Nursing. This is a 10 month position.

Staff Members at Common Ground are represented by UAW local 2110 with a collective bargaining agreement in progress. Hourly Pay is commensurate with experience per the Common Ground High School Salary Scale

Qualifications:

• Possession of a valid, current Registered Nurse issued by the State of Connecticut;

• Graduation from an accredited National League of Nursing (N.L.N.) program with: a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing, or a diploma from a three-year hospital school of nursing, or an Associate Degree in nursing;

• Current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification;
  

Responsibilities:

• Maintain school health and immunization records;

• Collect data regarding the health and developmental status of the individual;

• Assess and make referrals for injuries (including first aid) and acute illnesses;

• Coordinate and implement mandated screening tests;

• Administer medication and providing specialized physical health care procedures as prescribed;

• Communicate with parents/guardians and health care providers regarding student’s response to medication and procedures;

• Collaborate with evaluation/intervention teams to discuss and plan for health, safety and educational needs of individual students in the school community;

• Responsible for the training and supervising of the administration of medication by school personnel;

• Responsible for the training and delegating of specialized physical health care to other school personnel;

• Assume responsibility for pursuing continued professional growth and development through education and national certification;

• Collaborate within the school system and professional disciplines to promote wellness and enhance the educational process

Requirements:

• Two years full time employment in nursing within the past five years, preferably one year in public health, pediatric or emergency room nursing or related specialty;

• Knowledge and understanding of the principles, practices and techniques of professional nursing, including growth and development of school-aged child and youth;

• Ability to provide direction and guidance to others on the health team;

• Knowledge of current community health issues;

• Knowledge of functions and services of other community agencies and resources

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate some or all of the following:

• Experience working directly with racially, economically, academically diverse high school aged young people, and with low-income young people and people of color in particular. Knowledge about and passion for working for an organization that is committed to social justice, the dismantling of systems of oppression, and creating a just, equitable, and inclusive culture.

Please send cover letter and resume to:

Please apply directly through our Online ADP Employment Portal

Equal Opportunity Employer

Common Ground is particularly eager for candidates who can help us to fulfill our commitment to building a racially and culturally diverse faculty and staff. Common Ground has a commitment to examining the intersection of social, environmental, and food justice issues; how systems of oppression, including white privilege, impact the organization’s work; and how resistance to those systems can offer windows into a more sustainable society.

Common Ground is committed to the recruitment and retention of staff that is reflective of the communities we work with. We strongly encourage applicants from people of color, immigrants, women, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, people whose native language is something other than English, and other underrepresented and historically marginalized groups.

It has been the policy and will continue to be the strong commitment of the Common Ground and all contractors and subcontractors who do business with Common Ground to provide equal opportunities in employment to all qualified persons solely on the basis of job-related skills, ability and merit. Common Ground will continue to take Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, mental disorder (present or past history thereof) age, physical disability (but not limited to blindness), marital status, intellectual disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and criminal record. Such action includes, but is not limited to, employment, promotion, demotion or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, professional development, attendance at conferences or other opportunities for advancement. Common Ground, its contractors and subcontractors will continue to make good faith efforts to comply with all federal and state laws and policies which speak to equal employment opportunity. The principles of Affirmative Action are addressed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the United States Constitution, Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1870, 1871, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VI and VII of the 1964 United States Civil Rights Act, Presidential Executive Order 11246, amended by 11375, (Non-discrimination under federal contracts)< Act 1, Section 1 and 20 of the Connecticut Constitution, Governor Grasso’s Executive Order Number 11, Governor O’Neill’s Executive Order 9, the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Law (Sec. 46a-60-69) of the Connecticut General Statutes, Connecticut Code of Fair Practices (46a-7081), Deprivation of Civil Rights (46a-58(a)(d)), Public Accommodations Law (46a-63-64),

Discrimination against Criminal Offenders (46a-80), definition of Blind (46a-51(1)), definition of Physically Disabled (46a-51(15)), definition of Intellectual Disability (46a51(13)), cooperation with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (46a-77), Sexual Harassment (46a-60(a)-8), Connecticut Credit Discrimination Law (360436 through 439), Title I of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972. This Affirmative Action Policy Statement re-affirms Common Ground’s commitment to equity in the workplace and the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity