Status: Full-Time/Exempt
Reports to: Assistant Head of School for Student Life

Start Date: May 2025

Job Summary:

The Ethel Walker School has an opening for a full-time Director of the Health Center beginning in May 2025. The successful candidate will be a dedicated and skilled medical provider committed to providing care to pre-adolescent and adolescent girls centering the student in partnership with the family and campus support structures. They must have the ability to prioritize student care, ensure comprehensive primary healthcare for students, and foster effective communication with community members, parents, physicians, and healthcare professionals. The Director will supervise nursing staff, provide hands-on treatment, and develop health programs that promote the well-being of all students. Candidates must be comfortable integrating new technology and culturally relevant and responsive frameworks into healthcare.

Key Responsibilities:

• Policy Development & Compliance: Create, maintain, and update school health policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with state regulations and managing the bi-annual state inspection process.
• Staff Management: Oversee all aspects of nursing staff management, including recruitment, scheduling, training, and maintenance of confidential records.
• On-Call Support: Be available by phone during on-call hours for administrative questions and provide nursing coverage as needed inclusive of overnight coverage when necessary.
• Health and Safety Management: Ensure proper distribution of student medication as well as proper disposal of expired medications and medical waste, following OSHA guidelines, and maintaining sanitation protocols.
• Inventory Management: Manage health center equipment and medical supplies, including ordering as necessary.
• Record Keeping: Collect and manage student health records using Blackbaud and MagnusHealth software, ensuring compliance with state immunization regulations. Ensure confidentiality and appropriate discretion when managing medical information.
• Healthcare Coordination: Coordinate care with outside pharmacies, physicians, and health centers, and assist in arranging transportation for outside medical appointments.
• Health Education: Lead health education initiatives, including the Women’s Health course, and provide CPR/AED/First Aid training as needed by the community. While maintaining an instructor certification.
• Program Management: Ensure the health center is current with trends around the health and wellbeing of students with a proactive approach to wellness and physical health.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with all members of the community and specifically the student life staff to address student psychosocial issues, the athletic staff to ensure responsive care for student athletes, the counseling staff and academic support staff. This position will also serve on the Crisis Management Team and Wellness Team.
• Budget Management: Oversee the health center budget and communicate with the business office regarding health insurance for international students.

Qualifications:

• Education & Licensure: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing; CT Licensed Nurse with a minimum of 5-7 years of nursing experience.
• Certifications: Current instructor certification in American Red Cross Adult and Child CPR, First Aid, and AED; National School Nurse Certification is a plus; Emergency/Pediatric Nursing background is a plus.
• Skills:
  • Strong clinical judgment and excellent assessment skills.
  • Ability to effectively supervise a team and provide outstanding support to parents and students.
  • Exceptional organizational and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment while prioritizing student health needs.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. The Ethel Walker School is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status.

To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter, contact list of three (3) professional references in one (1) document to  careers@my.ethelwalker.org.

For information on The Ethel Walker School please visit our website at www.ethelwalker.org

About The Ethel Walker School

For more than 100 years, The Ethel Walker School has been preparing young women to make a difference in the world. At Walker’s, we seek to foster and cherish the joyful development of girls into young women so that they may reach their full potential as astute thinkers and doers in the world. Our grounding values of integrity, respect, confidence, courage, conviction, and love of learning provide a solid framework for personal, ethical, and social growth. Our grades 6–12 plus postgraduate education serves not only as preparation for college, but for life itself in this century of constant change. Walker’s graduates, whatever field they pursue, are societal engineers, reworking and rewiring the very mechanisms of our world. Our ethos of warm receptivity to new ideas and people, as well as enduring and deep friendships over time, emerges out of Ethel Walker’s philosophy of education and her desire to provide girls with a foundation for lifelong learning and intellectual curiosity. At Walker’s, girls can be themselves, discover their true passions and purpose, and achieve their best performance in every aspect of life. The Walker's campus is located on 175 expansive acres in ...Simsbury, Connecticut. Recent large-scale projects include a state-of-the-art residence hall designed with a focus on sustainability, featuring solar panels that will provide 50% of the energy for the building. Walker’s boasts a nationally recognized equestrian program operating with over 50 horses on site, a 100+ acre on-campus facility with a nationally renowned head of riding, and superb equestrian trainers. Walker’s facilities include excellent classrooms and science laboratories, as well as outdoor turf and grass fields and tennis courts, and the 70,000 square-foot Centennial Center, a multi-use facility housing impressive athletic facilities including a pool, squash, basketball, and volleyball courts, dance studios, student center, athletic training room, and medical services.

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