SPED Nurse for the 2025/26 School Year

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.

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