Class F Licensed Practical Nurse Para at Minnetonka High School, 7.5 hours per day, 193 days per year

Job Responsibilities

• Utilizes nursing assessment skills to perform focused assessments of student health concerns.
• Performs emergency first aid care to students and/or staff with injuries and illnesses.
• Affords assistance to LSN with monitoring for adverse medication effects.
• Performs routine first aid care to students and/or staff with injuries and illnesses and conducts standardized first aid follow-up procedures.
• Affords assistance to students with self-care tasks of feeding, dressing, and toileting.
• Lifting will be necessary for repositioning and physical restraints as necessary.
• Provides care to students with chronic medical conditions, including but not limited to administering medication, gastrostomy tube feedings, urinary catheterization, nebulizer treatments.
• Supports, modifies, adjusts, and monitors individualized instruction in academic areas, functional skills, and/or behavior programs for special education students on a 1:1 or small group basis within both regular and special education classroom settings.
• Operates special education equipment (i.e., wheelchairs, and augmentative communication devices, assistive technology) and supervises their safe and proper use.
• Supervises and applies student management techniques and anticipates, prevents, or stops self-destructive student behaviors.
• Participates in IEP conferences, school conferences, meetings with staff and/or parents, etc. as requested.
• Writes concise observational data, maintains a log, records computerized data, maintains behavior charts, and monitors students' attendance on a daily basis.
• Will participate in training on third party reimbursement and implements third party reimbursement tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Valid LPN or RN licensure in Minnesota.
• Evidence of successful completion of the Personal Care Assistant Training certification test through the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
• Current first aid training and CPR certification.
• Evidence of successful experiences working with students and understanding their needs.
• Experience working with school age children preferred.
• Experience working in a clinical setting preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting student instruction in the classroom preferred.
• Evidence of knowledge and/or experience in using behavior modification strategies including restitution and resiliency.
• Demonstrated training, knowledge, and application of CPI strategies, preferred.
• Evidence of basic word processing, computer, and clerical skills.
• Evidence of ability to work in a team environment.
• Evidence of willingness to participate in ongoing training in health and technology.
• Evidence of the ability to respect, protect, and maintain the confidentiality of students, staff, and families.
• Evidence of a willingness to work under supervision of Director of Health Services, Licensed School Nurse, and MMW Administration.
• Evidence of the ability to organize & prioritize tasks and present needs of students/staff and meet deadlines while working with constant interruptions.
• Evidence of excellent human relations, oral, and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc., sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.