School Nurse

Class

Title:

School Nurse

Reports To: Director of Special Education/Pupil Personnel Services

South San Francisco Unified School District

The South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD) community includes 15 schools supporting 8,000 students in Daly City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco.

Our mission is that in partnership with our community, SSFUSD will provide exceptional instruction, engaging experiences, and equitable and accessible opportunities and resources to further support our diverse student body so that students are equipped to learn, thrive, navigate their future with purpose, and impact their community.

In February 2024, the School Board for SSFUSD adopted our new Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. Educators are at the heart of our priorities - exceptional instruction, engaged students, purposeful partnerships, empowered educators, and equity-centered systems.

SSFUSD is seeking a dynamic, equity-focused, and inclusive School Nurse to join our school community. SSFUSD refuses to accept that the educational outcomes of students in our district are overwhelmingly predictable based on students’ race, socioeconomics, ethnicity or learning differences. We remain committed to working each day to examine systemic, institutional, and individual biases in order to dismantle systems of inequities that will enable all students to thrive.

Under the direction of the Director of Special Education/Pupil Personnel Services, the School Nurse will plan, coordinate, and supervise employee and student health services programs.

As a School Nursein SSFUSD, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Coordinating district and mandated student health programs, including:
• Mandated school entry immunization requirements
• District required kindergarten physical exams
• Mandated screening programs: audio and vision testing; scoliosis exams
• Child Health and Disability Prevention program
• Collection, documentation, and appropriate dissemination of student health and medical information
• Prepare and submit required reports regarding mandated programs
• Supervising district health services assistants in the execution of their duties, including:
• Record keeping
• Management of student health and medical information, including confidential list
• Implementation of immunization and physical exam requirements
• Preparation for and assisting with screening programs
• Making routine vision and audio referrals
• Keeping district nurse informed regarding student health and medical information
• Dispensing first aid
• Preparation of menstrual hygiene materials
• Referring for medical care, including:
• Students found to have possible scoliosis problems
• Complicated referrals for students who failed audio or vision tests
• Students who, in the judgement of the district nurse, would benefit from medical evaluations and/or follow-up of health or medical issues
• Serving as district-wide resource dealing with student health issues, including:
• Performing health assessments
• Facilitating referrals to community agencies such as California Children’s Service, Lions Club, community health care providers, family physicians, CPS, etc.
• Work with families of children with health or medical problems
• Act as health consultant to administrators and faculties regarding student medical situations and their impact on school activities
• Providing inservice related to employee health issues, including:
• First aid
• Communicable diseases
• Providing menstrual hygiene education to fourth grade girls
• Serving as district liaison with home, school, and community
• Serving on D.A.T.E. (Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco Education) committee
• Assisting in the development of student support services
• Providing health and development assessment, audio and vision screening, as required by special education mandates
• Coordinating and implementing employee health assistance programs, including:
• Being knowledgeable of medical issues of employee assistance programs in order to make appropriate evaluations and referrals
• Planning and carrying out the employee tuberculosis screening program according to state mandates, including:
• Administering intradermal Mantoux skin tests according to required timelines
• Making appropriate…