Licensed Practical Nurse

Position Summary

This position is for the 2026/27 school year. This is a full-time, 1.0 FTE/ 8.0 hours per day position working on the CL-196 (196 days per full school year) schedule Monday-Friday 7:30am to 3:30pm. This position has multiple vacancies.

Essential Functions

• Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, implements nursing care according to established priority of needs and according to standards of nursing practice.
• Confer with Registered Nurse, to plan and oversee day-to-day routines with diabetic and other children with health problems, including administering insulin to young children.
• Assist with health related programs, like vision/dental/audiometric/health screenings, weekly fluoride rinses in classrooms, containing spread of communicable issues like head lice, scabies, impetigo; administer immunizations at special clinics. This may involve calling parents/guardians.
• Provide basic emergency medical and first aid care at the school site when not involved in the care of a particular child; assist nurse with further care for students as needed; administer epinephrine and glucagon per protocol; administer medicine per protocol with written parent/guardian permission.
• Work with a health assistant, to maintain and update manual and computerized files and records of student health information, including immunization records, updates on health problems.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Follow through on assigned student health plans and maintain effective working relationships with the Registered Nurse, School Secretary, Health Assistant, Teachers.
• Congduct specialized assessments under the supervision of the Registered Nurse, recognize urgent problems, and refer to Registered Nurse.
• Good basic problem solving with effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Understand and execute oral and written instructions, policies and procedures.
• Promote and preserve students' autonomy, dignity and rights in a non-judgmental, nondiscriminatory manner that recognizes student diversity.
• Protect confidential student information, and use judgment in sharing this information in a manner that is consistent with current law.
• Exhibits knowledge of job limitations and accepts supervision.
• Ability to work calmly in stressful situations.
• Self-directed, ability to work without direct supervision and prioritize workload to assure efficient/quality support to staff and students.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications - High school diploma or G.E.D., valid Oregon License to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse, and six months experience working in a hospital, community or home health clinical setting with patients/clients who exhibit chronic or technology-supported health problems.
• Valid state issued driver's license and insured vehicle available for use on the job.
• Current First Aid/CPR/AED card, epinephrine and glucagon certificates; or ability to obtain certificates in at least 30 days of start date.
• Experience working in public K-12 environment.
• Diabetic health assistance experience.
• Bilingual and bicultural skills in such common languages to the District (to be determined by the specific position).

Additional Information

• Complete application in its entirety. Incomplete applications will not be accepted or processed, there are no exceptions.
• We do not accept walk-in, faxed, or applications via mail. All applications must be submitted using the GovermentJobs website. It is your responsibility to submit a complete application. Submitting an application does not guarantee any candidate an interview. Candidates are interviewed by appointment only. If you apply to more than one job, an application is required for EACH job posting.
• All required documentation must be scanned and attached in order to submit an online application.
• Required documents for this posting are:- Copy of License(s)

Benefits

• There are a wide variety of benefits to eligible Eugene School District 4J employees. These benefits include health, dental, vision, life insurance, optional life and disability, flexible spending accounts, 403B, and an employee assistance program.
• Positions at a minimum of four hours (0.5 FTE) are benefit eligible. Please contact the hiring administrator if you have questions about this position’s benefit eligibility.
• For a complete description of benefits available for 4J employees please visit our Employee Benefits webpage at www.4j.lane.edu/hr/benefits.

Employer

Eugene School District 4J (dba Lane County School District) (OR)
Address: Eugene School District 4J
200 N. Monroe Street
Eugene, Oregon, 97402
Phone: 541-790-7668
541-790-7670
Website: http://www.4j.lane.edu