For Listing: New Garden Friends School and B’nai Shalom Day school are seeking a school nurse to work 30 hours a week, split between the two schools. The ideal candidate must be a Registered nurse, currently licensed in North Carolina with a minimum of 3 years of RN nursing experience dealing with young children and adolescents (ages 2 mos – 18 years). She/He/They will be knowledgeable, flexible, and demonstrate authentic care and concern for students.

Primary Responsibilities 

The school nurse is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing a comprehensive school health program. Responsibilities include the provision of nursing services, program management, collaboration, health education, and school community health planning. Additionally, the position will be responsible for the communication and the handling of COVID-19 related matters.

 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities   

The candidate must possess a thorough understanding of 

• Pediatric/adolescent Nursing
• Health counseling, mental health, and crisis intervention
• Communicable diseases including COVID-19
• Applicable laws, regulations, and standards pertaining to school nursing practice

• School Health law
• Ethnic and cultural sensitivity and competence
• Contemporary health and psychosocial issues that influence children, families and the community
• Development, management, and evaluation of school health programs
• Environmental health within the school community 

Skills related to this important role include the ability to:

• Deal tactfully with others and exercise good judgment in appraising situations
• Make independent and timely nursing decisions and triage
• Secure the cooperation and respect of students, faculty, and staff
• Elicit needed information and maintain effective working relationships
• Collect data to direct evidence-based practice
• Record accurately services rendered and interpret and explain records, reports, activities, health care plans, accommodations, and medical interventions
• Identify health-related barriers to learning (i.e., at-risk behaviors, financial, cultural, economical, etc.)

Duties, Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

This professional school nursing position is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services including:

• Promoting student, staff, and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors
• Promoting quality improvement by ensuring the use of the current best practices.
• Researching and updating policies, procedures, and guidelines annually or as needed. 
• Promoting awareness of public health issues.
• Providing ongoing disease surveillance and communication with school administrators and parents regarding health issues and communicable diseases impacting school attendance. 
• Coordinates with the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services as needed.
• Using assessment data to support changes in policy and procedures to support student and staff and ensure student safety. (Accident/Injury Reports, Health Room Office Visit Data)

 Standards of Professional Performance

• Quality of Practice: Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
•  Education: Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice
• Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations
•  Collegiality: Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues
• Collaboration: Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice
• Ethics: Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice
• Research: Integrates research findings into practice
•  Resource Utilization: Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of school nursing services

Performance Standards

At a minimum, the school nurse may be expected to: 

• Attend the New School Nurse Orientation through NCDHHS and follow up session (new school nurses)

• Collect data for the NC DHHS School Health Nursing Survey and Program Summary (End of Year of Report)
• Schedule as determined by both B’nai Shalom Day School and New Garden Friends School

Job Qualifications

• Required: Registered nurse, currently licensed in North Carolina
• A minimum of 3 years of RN nursing experience dealing with young children and adolescents (ages 2 mos – 18 years)
• CPR Trained

To apply, please send a cover letter expressing your interest in the position, and the materials listed above to hhobson@ngfs.org. Please, no phone calls or regular mail.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Our state licensed preschool at B’nai Shalom Day School is hiring a teacher for our two/three year old class. Teacher applicants must be knowledgeable in early child development, professional, and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. This is a physically demanding job which requires standing, sitting on the floor and holding/carrying children.

Under the guidance of the Preschool Director you will participate in all aspects of the program. The successful candidate will have at least an Associate degree in ECE, a minimum of two years of preschool classroom experience or the equivalent.

This position is a full-time salaried position and offers a full range of benefits including paid vacation and sick days, health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance, and ongoing professional development. We operate on an academic calendar and there are paid holidays when school is closed. Additional information about B’nai Shalom Day School is available on our web site at www.bnai-shalom.org.

B’nai Shalom is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a workplace that is free of discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, handicap, disability, citizenship, or any other protected status. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, compensation, and training.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter to llasovsky@bnai-shalom.org.