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Mission Statement

The iHOPE school community strives to provide comprehensive services for our students, who present with a variety of diagnoses including Traumatic Brain Injury, Acquired Brain Injury, and other brain-based disorders. Our students participate in academic instruction with appropriate modification and adaptation, as well as therapeutic services, based upon a collaborative, researched-based model that integrates current technology. iHOPE is committed to learners with complex needs and to their social, emotional, adaptive and educational advancement. Accessibility and integration into the larger community are at the core of our belief system.

Position Summary:

The school nurse supports student success by providing health care through assessment, intervention, and follow-up for all children within the school setting, addressing the physical, mental, and social health needs of students and supports their achievement in the learning process.  

Key/Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Protects and maintains student’s health by providing professional nursing services in accordance with Nursing Standards and NYS Licensing.

• Provides NY State-mandated and annual screening programs including vision, hearing, height, weight and scoliosis.

• Facilitates NY State-mandated immunization and communicable disease control requirements.

• Identifies and assesses students’ health needs, implements services, and evaluates plans of care, which impact student learning and achievement or safety.

• Participates as members of the school’s multi-disciplinary team, interpreting medical data and collecting medical reports or scripts.

• Communicate any student health concerns to parents/guardians.

• Identifies and reports school building safety or environmental issues which impact student or staff health to the administration.

• Documents health services provided in accordance with the NYS Nurse Practice Act.

• Maintains current pertinent health data for each student by periodic review and documentation of the individual student electronic and paper health records.

• Completes student and staff insurance/accident reports.

• Initiates and documents health surveillance programs as needed and records, compiles and reports aggregate student health information as required by NYS Department of Health.

• Performs all other duties , as assigned

  Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Valid NYS RN license

• Current CPR certification

• Minimum of five years of clinical and/or pediatrics experience as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Strong organizational and communication skills

  Full-time positions:

• Tuition reimbursement

• Medical and dental insurance (with options for family and more extensive medical plans, as well as vision)

• Paid time off and holidays

• 403(b) retirement with employer match

• Life insurance and long-term disability

• Discounts on travel, entertainment, wireless services, shopping, and more!

• Check out our Benefits page to learn more!

  Compensation Range:

• $72,000 to $78,000 per year

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran. YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran. YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Our Roots:

YAI was launched in February of 1957 out of a small school in Brooklyn, New York. Initially staffed by Co-Founders Bert MacLeech and Pearl Maze MacLeech alone, their pilot program served just seven people. According to Bert, from its very beginning YAI has been dedicated to providing innovative services for the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities) community. MacLeech envisioned a, “total life adjustment approach, emphasizing personal growth, social responsibility, employment goals, and the development of independence for the individual.” At a time when institutional living was the norm for people with I/DD, this vision was nothing short of revolutionary.

YAI Today:

Today, YAI has a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community. This extraordinary growth shows the ongoing need for these important services, and YAI’s success in offering them. YAI supports people with autism, Down syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy, among others. Operating throughout Downstate New York and Northern New Jersey, YAI now offers more than 300 programs for people of all ages.

Better Together:

At YAI, we are driven by our mission of living, loving, working, and learning. This applies not only to the people we support, but to our staff as well. Commitment and passion for the work continue to unite employees and drive the organization forward. Empowering the people we support to reach their goals remains at the heart of our organization.

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