School Nurse
Gardner High School
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Job summary
Gardner High School in Gardner, MA is seeking a qualified School Nurse to assess student health needs and develop comprehensive health services for the school community. The role reports to the School Nurse Leader and Building Principal and requires direct nursing care, health program development, and collaboration with administrators to ensure seamless health services across grades.
The ideal candidate holds Massachusetts School Nurse certification, a BSN, at least three years of school nursing
Qualifications
- Must hold Massachusetts School Nurse certification.
- BSN or higher from an accredited program.
- Minimum three years in school nursing or related field.
- CPR certification and ongoing continuing education for licensure.
Responsibilities
- Assess health needs of students and develop health programs.
- Provide direct nursing care as needed.
- Develop policies and documentation for clinical services.
- Collaborate with staff to ensure health services across grades.
- Maintain accurate health records and reports for state agencies.
- Participate in interdisciplinary teams and community linkages.
Skills
Education
Job description
Starting Date: Immediately
Responsible to: School Nurse Leader, Building Principal
Job Summary: Responsible for assessing the health needs of students and developing a program to meet those needs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Using available demographic, health and school system data, identifies health needs of the student population.
- Based on the needs of the student population, develops program goals, objectives and action steps.
- Provides direct nursing care as needed to meet the needs of students.
- Participates in the development of an interdisciplinary plan for each building to ensure that students in need of services are identified in a timely manner and appropriate intervention is initiated.
- Works with all school administrators to ensure consistent communication and transition of health services across grade levels.
- Develops and implements written policies and procedures for the clinical services and programs addressing health issues.
- Develops and implements documentation systems at both the individual student level and the programmatic level.
- Provides an accurate, cumulative, specific, objective and confidential record on the health status of each student.
- Provides clinical consultation to health education staff, physical educators, administrative and teaching staff, students and families.
- Participates in interdisciplinary teams.
- Carries out communicable disease prevention and infection control based on current guidelines for universal precautions, prevention of blood borne pathogens exposure and hazardous medical waste disposal.
- Ensures that there is an emergency care plan in place, which is communicated to all staff and is closely coordinated with community emergency care procedures.
- Promotes positive linkages and referral mechanisms to community providers for a range of services dealing with child and adolescent health.
- Compiles statistical reports as required by the school system and state agencies.
- Reviews changing trends in health needs.
- Collaborates with local nursing education institutions.
Qualifications:
- Must have valid Department of Education certification as a school nurse in Massachusetts.
- Must possess a minimum of a baccalaureate in nursing from an accredited nursing program.
- Have a minimum of three years experience in school nursing or a related field.
- Maintain CPR certification.
- Complete ongoing continuing education programs pertinent to the evolving specialty area of school health and school nursing practice, as well as meet the continuing education requirements for certification and licensure in Massachusetts.
This job is also posted in Gardner Public Schools
Application Deadline: Oct 19, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Posted: Yesterday
Starting Date: Immediately
Position Type: Full-Time
Salary: $53,005 to $85,909 Per Year
- Rebecca McCaffrey , Director of School Health Services
- District Level
- Phone: 978-632-1605
- Email: mccaffb@gardnerk12.org
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