Position: School Nurse

Start Date: January 7, 2025

Reports to: Chief Operations Officer

Employment Type: Full-Time, 10-month

Bricolage Academy seeks a well-qualified nursing professional to oversee all the health policies, programs, and services of Bricolage Academy on a daily basis during the school year.

The School Nurse is responsible for the basic health services of students. Additionally, this individual helps manage the health needs of students who have chronic health conditions and students with disabilities. The school nurse is expected to help create a safe, nurturing and healthy environment for our students and staff.

Bricolage is a New Orleans charter school that started in 2013 with a Kindergarten class and is growing one year, and one grade, at a time until we serve students in grades PreK - 12th. In 2018 - 2019 we opened our Middle School with a founding 5th grade class. In 2022 -2023, we will open our High School.

Bricolage Academy’s mission is to advance educational equity by preparing students from diverse backgrounds to be innovators who change the world.

Bricolage envisions a time when public schools serve the needs of all students—when New Orleans is the world’s premier location for public education and is widely recognized as a world-class city for its creative, cultural and economic leadership.

Bricolage is a diverse community, and we are committed to being an anti-racist one. This means devoting time to understand what racism is, exploring how it manifests, and taking actions to dismantle it. Bricolage's diversity is not itself an end. Rather, we believe our diversity is a means to amplifying empathy, advancing equity, and facilitating creativity and innovation.

Position Responsibilities

Health Management

• Provide state mandated health assessments in accordance with state and district requirements and recommendations including, but not limited to vision, hearing, and growth

• Plan and implement school health management protocols for children with chronic health problems, including the administration of medication

• Prepare the budget for school health supplies

• Prepare and maintain first aid kits, emergency medication and AED

• Trains and supervises staff in CPR, medication, and non-complex procedures to ensure student health needs are met

Emergency Management

• Render first aid to all members of the school community and responding with urgency to student health and hygiene needs

• Review, revise and implement emergency policies, including in-service health and safety programs for personnel

Communicable Disease Management

• Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases through preventive immunization programs, early detection, surveillance and reporting of contagious diseases

• Create and implement systems to ensure students are compliant with immunization policies

Preventative Healthcare

• Utilizes computer-based software to manage student health data including but not limited to PowerSchool and LINKS

• Develop, implement, maintain, and update student health plans and cumulative health records to accommodate individual needs of students

• Recommend provisions for a school environment conducive to learning

• Coordinate school and community health activities and serves as a liaison person between the home, school, and community

• Develops and maintains community health partnerships and a provider database

• Educational training and programming for students to address their needs

Illness Assessment

• Participate as the health specialist on the child education evaluation team to develop the health individualized educational plan (IEP)

• Develop procedures and provide for crisis intervention for acute illness, injury and emotional disturbances

• Assist in the formation of school health policies, procedures, standing orders, goals and objectives for the school

Other Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively and in a professional manner with school administrators, school staff and parents on a regular basis.

• Develop rapport and build relationships with Bricolage instructional staff, support staff and parents.

Position Qualifications

Required

• Strong belief in the Bricolage Academy mission, vision and core values

• Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice professional nursing without any restrictions.

• Active Basic Life Support CPR and/or AED certified

Additional Qualifications

• Self-starter who enjoys learning new things and utilizing a variety of resources

• Highly organized with exceptional detail orientation and demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of constantly changing work

• Critical thinker who displays strong judgment in prioritizing problems to solve and opportunities to pursue

• High level of personal responsibility with exceptional goal orientation and a proven track record of success

• Comfortable and excited by working in an entrepreneurial environment

• Strong verbal and written communication; able to communicate effectively with multiple constituencies

• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team

• Three (3) years experience as a professional registered nurse preferably in a school, community, public, or pediatric setting.

• Eligible for certification by the Louisiana Department of Education

• Excellent organizational and communication skills

How to Apply

Please visit bricolagenola.org/get-involved/careers and complete our online application.

People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Bricolage Academy does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.