Summary

Nursing | Registered Nurse | Enrollment Center | Closing: Until Filled

Description

General Purpose of Job:  To inspire and prepare each and every student with the confidence, courage, and competence to achieve their dreams; contribute to community; and engage in a lifetime of learning.  Collect, review and communicate enrolling student’s health data to district sites. Educate and assist families in gathering medical information to meet student’s health needs in the school setting. Communicate incoming student needs with related services providers throughout the district.

Responsibilities: 

  • Understands the enrollment process and collaborates with enrollment staff to ensure complete and timely student enrollment.
  • Reviews medical history and immunization enrollment documents
  • Communicates with families to review health concerns and immunization information.
  • Contact parents and assist with completing missing immunizations or CO process
  • Stay up to date and provide families with information on MN State Statutes and Federal immunization requirements and changes to immunization laws. 
  • Collaborates with NW Immunization Clinic to schedule immunization appointments, obtain previous immunization records from other states, schools and clinics, and create and/or update MIIC.
  • Prevent and control communicable disease through health status, and implementation of the state immunization law. 
  • Understands, implements, and stays up to date with current immunization requirements and the enrollment process under McKinney Vento as it applies to our homeless and foster care students.
  • Collaborates with district Homeless Liaison to ensure enrollments under McKinney Vento are identified, expedited, and followed up and assisted with immunization compliance.
  • Provide information to enrolling families on medication consents and documentation needed for students that require health care or emergency action plans.
  • Documents all parent/ENR health data and communications into Synergy.
  • Communicates with building nurses, of students with medical needs being enrolled in their schools.
  • Collaborates with the SEBC  to ensure proper student placement within the district.
  • Collaborates with enrollment counselor to ensure identified needs are shared with the appropriate counseling staff at the enrolling school.
  • Reviews SPED evaluations, IEP, and previous school records as needed.
  • Promote and maintain health and well-being of students, families and school personnel by health teaching and health counseling.
  • Serve as a resource to faculty for health education purposes
  • Train and supervise volunteers/staff whenever they are used in the enrollment department.
  • Coordinates and executes educational in-services and updates as part of the initial and ongoing training/education of all nurses in the district as it pertains to immunizations, school immunization law, compliance and process, Synergy documentation, and MIIC interpretation.
  • Participates in the Enrollment Center Health and Safety Committee.
  • Participates in the Enrollment Center’s On-Line Committee.

 QUALIFICATIONS: 

  • EDUCATION:  Must be a registered nurse currently licensed in the State of Minnesota
  • SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES:  

            1)  Basic first aid and health screening
            2)  Strong verbal and written communication skills
            3)  Customer Service focused
            4)  Ability to communicate and foster positive working relationships with students, parents and staff.
            5)  Ability to teach health information to student/family groups
            6)  Public health background preferred
            5)  Current CPR
            6)  Strong Computer skills, Synergy, MIIC, Google docs/app, Adobe Pro., Interpreter services
            7)  Ability to analyze and present data to stakeholders
           

  
Job Type:
    Full-time, 218 day contract, 8 hour days, school year with flexed summer hours
 
Bargaining Unit:     
Nurses
 
Salary Range:
      $33.92-36.30hour