SPED Nurse for the 2025/26 School Year in Leavenworth, KS

Title: Special Education Nurse (2025/26 School Year) Purpose And Objectives Of The Position The Special Education Nurse provides daily, constant observation and assistance with students' feeding tubes and trachs as an essential part of the students' Individualized Education Plans. Reports to: Building Principal & Assistant Superintendent of Student Services FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Salary: Hourly, Column G of the Classified Employee Salary Matrix, with step determined based on years of relevant experience in a school setting (Range $22.00-$38.98 per hour) Qualifications • Current Kansas Nurses License (LPN or RN) • Public school experience preferred • Possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and physical attributes necessary to perform the essential functions of the position. • Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate or acceptable. • Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the Central Office (after an employment offer is made). Essential Functions • To help identify and monitor children with health problems • To monitor and care for children with medical needs as expressed in an Individualized Education Plan • To review students’ health records with district and building personnel as needed • Interpret any significant findings • Assist in identifying and accommodating students with specific health issues or disabilities • Notify parents of sick or injured students, informing them of the action taken and seeking further instructions from them • Ability to implement and follow all school district policies during all activities • Ability to keep current on new information, innovative ideas, and techniques • Ability to keep student information and records confidential • Ability to respond to information requests in a cooperative, courteous, and timely manner • Ability to implement and follow all district health and safety policies, including all precautions of the Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan • Ability to perform other duties and assume other responsibilities as assigned by the principal or other administrative staff Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that a substitute nurse must meet to perform the essential job functions successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions: • Sit and stand for extended periods • Bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead • Ability to see and read a computer screen and/or printed materials • Hear and understand English at normal classroom levels, both indoors, outdoors, and on the telephone • Speak in an audible tone so that others may clearly understand in regular classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone • Physically able to independently lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height Terms of Employment: At-will employment. Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.