Part-time Nurse - LPN

Student Services; Westwood (MA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

Westwood Public Schools is seeking a Part-Time LPN nurse to provide health support for a student during a daily van ride, in Westwood, MA. The role requires pediatric experience and an active LPN license, with ongoing education requirements.

The nurse will assess student needs, administer medications as directed to designated staff, and collaborate with teachers, families, and healthcare providers to promote wellness and safe care in the school setting.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates deep and thorough understanding of medical knowledge and nursing techniques.
• Communicates respectfully and proactively with parents; sensitive to family values.
• Proactive and resourceful in providing thorough information to families about healthcare delivery.
• Involves parents and guardians, including hard-to-reach families, in student health matters.
• Maintains professional ethics and confidentiality at all times.

Responsibilities

• Provides complex assessments and updates care plans based on student responses.
• Conducts detailed assessments and shares results with colleagues, students and parents.
• Ensures medications are administered by designated staff with proper release forms.
• Promotes wellness through school-appropriate health education and presentations.
• Plans and implements lessons/supports with high expectations and accessibility of information.
• Collaborates with teachers to support student health and learning goals.
• Develops emergency plans and ensures staff readiness.
• Implements improvements in healthcare delivery based on feedback from students and families.
• Advocates for students with administrators and support staff.
• Maintains accurate, timely reports and documentation.

Skills

Medical knowledge

Nursing techniques

Parent communication

Professionalism

Ethics & confidentiality

Education

LPN with pediatric experience

Continuing education courses

Job description

Part-time Nurse - LPN

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Job Details

Job ID: 5474975
Application Deadline: Nov 30, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Re-Posted: Jan 29, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Jan 5, 2026

Job Description

Nature & Scope

4 hours per day to ride van with a student to/from home to out of district school.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Expertly provides complex comprehensive assessments; displays advanced clinical knowledge when establishing a plan of care; observes and documents student responses; evaluates data to revise the plan.
• Conducts detailed and individualized assessment of student needs, analyzes the results and shares it with colleagues, students and parents appropriately.
• Ensures that medications are administered by designated individuals and release forms are signed and appropriately stored. Shares knowledge of medication and importance of compliance with students.
• Is successful in promoting wellness through classroom presentations that inspire students to assume active roles in furthering a healthy lifestyle in the school.
• Effectively plans and implements lessons/supports that set clear and high expectations and make knowledge, information and/or supports accessible for all students.
• Individually and with colleagues, develops strategies and actions that contribute to the learning and productive behavior of all students at the school.
• Develops plans for many emergency situations. Ensures student and staff understanding of plans in case of emergencies.
• Continually seeks ways to improve the delivery of healthcare and makes changes as needed in response to student, parent and/or teacher input.
• Initiates collaboration with classroom teachers, offering suggestions and additional resources when appropriate.
• Proactively consults and advocates for students with administrators, teachers and support personnel.
• Reports, records and documentation are detailed, accurate and submitted in a timely manner.
• Makes perceptive and accurate reflections on practice, citing specific examples. Draws on an extensive repertoire to suggest alternative strategies to improve delivery of healthcare.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

LPN with previous pediatric experience forchildren with special needs
Has taken continuing education courses in areas relevant to licensure and/or certification.

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY, SKILLS

• Demonstrates deep and thorough understanding of medical knowledge and nursing techniques.
• Displays accurate knowledge of the typical developmental characteristics of the age group and exceptions to the general patterns; understands the extent to which individual students follow the general patterns.
• Communicates respectfully and proactively with parents; is sensitive to diverse family and community values and beliefs.
• Is proactive and resourceful in providing thorough information to families about the delivery of healthcare as a whole.
• Promptly and frequently involves all parents, even those who are hard to reach, in supporting and caring for students with health-related concerns.
• Deals immediately and successfully with parent concerns and makes parents feel welcome.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Establishes respect and rapport with students and their family, reflecting a high degree of comfort and trust in the student-nurse relationship.
• Presents as a consummate professional in words, action and appearance.
• Is invariably ethical, honest and transparent, uses impeccable judgment and respects confidentiality.

JOB ENVIRONMENT

Work takes placeon van ride to/from out of district placement/school.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Requires sufficient vision to read printed documents and to view detail on a computer screen for extended periods.
• Requires frequent standing, walking, sitting, bending, and reaching, as well as carrying and occasionally lifting up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation, on the telephone, and in the home/van.
• Ability to hear sounds clearly up to twenty feet.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Westwood Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

The Westwood Public Schools prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation and is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Position Type: Part-Time
Salary: $50 to $85 Per Hour
Job Categories:

Special Education > Multiple Disabilities

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Westwood Public Schools prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation and is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Contact Information

• HR Department
• 220 Nahatan Street
• Westwood, Massachusetts 02090
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]