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The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) Center for Community Programs, Innovation, and Scholarship (COMPASS Center) seeks a Community Health/School Health nurse supervisor to join the Community Health School Nurse Program. The nursing supervisor will provide day-to-day operational supervision of five (5) school health nurses (SHNs).

The JHSON COMPASS Center seeks to promote the health and well-being of underserved populations in Maryland through engaging community and other stakeholders. This includes supporting and redesigning school-based health programs to improve the health and academic achievement of children and adolescents from low-income communities in Baltimore City through the implementation of an innovative school health program.

The JHSON COMPASS Center will staff five Baltimore City Public Schools designated by the Baltimore City Public School System with registered nurses who will provide traditional school health services as their primary responsibilities. The SHN Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the health suites, ensuring smooth, safe, and appropriate health care for elementary and middle school students at five (5) Baltimore City Public Schools in grades K-12, and report to JHSON faculty practice provider. Specifically, the SHN supervisor will be responsible for oversight of school health services (school nursing) including supervision of nursing and support staff, as well as provide coverage of school nurses when needed.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversight of five school nurses including their onboarding training, monthly competency trainings, audits, and mentoring.
• Perform monthly site visits at each school to perform workflow reviews and audits.
• Designs and runs regular nursing team meetings including weekly SHN huddles and quarterly health suite audits with all five SHN nurses to discuss challenges and barriers to effective patient care and practice.
• Perform annual and midterm performance reviews for SHN.
• Complete annual workflow reviews across all SHN sites to ensure Quality and Process Improvement measures are in place.
• Lead and oversee annual service satisfaction surveys conducted at each school site to ensure student, administration, and parent satisfaction with SHN services.
• Serve as primary contact for any SHN related issues including but not limited to: incidentals, documentation and critical activity reporting and resolution, complaints, staff outages due to illness or unexpected reasons.
• Oversee nursing activities performed by other nurses and auxiliary personnel in a clinical specialty area; may supervise aides providing personal care services in the home.
• Prepares data regarding school health services encounters for local health agencies.
• Initiates and tracks data related to population-level school health interventions including preventive programming, screening, and clinical service delivery programs.
• Assign and review the work of nursing and auxiliary staff and train new personnel.
• Conduct regular evaluations for school health services nursing staff.
• Maintains records and writes reports.
• Manages nursing team schedule.
• Serves as primary liaison between school staff, JHSON, COMPASS, and SHN program team.
• Maintain and seek out partnerships with governmental and non-governmental agencies engaged in school health and pediatric health care.
• Collaborate with the faculty practice provider and JHSON COMPASS leadership on the development and oversight of SHN operations budget.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Knowledge of the principles, objectives, and techniques of community health nursing and school nursing.
• Skilled in the delivery of clinical health services to children and early adolescents and experienced working with urban, low-income families.
• Knowledge of nursing theory, process, practices, and procedures. Knowledge of professional nursing standards.
• Knowledge of community health resources and agencies.
• Ability to make long-range plans for community health services.
• Accountable for own decisions regarding patient care.
• Identifies impending changes in patient condition, communicates to supervisory provider as needed.
• Ability to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate community health programs.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with patients, parents, physicians, and other health care professionals.
• Ability to maintain records and prepare reports.
• Advanced interpersonal skills necessary to communicate effectively with all members of the interdisciplinary team to enhance collaboration and problem-solving, and to communicate diplomatically and thoroughly with parents, teachers, and school staff.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to provide information to patients and health care personnel.
• Ability to function effectively in a fluid, dynamic, and rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to supervise and provide feedback to other nurses and support staff in a clinical environment.
• Skilled in leadership for multidisciplinary teams.

Technical Qualifications or Specialized Certifications

• Nursing license 
• Basic Life Support certification (BLS)
• Complete School Health Services Training (Baltimore City Health Department)
• Delegating Nurse Training (Baltimore City Health Department)

Physical Requirements

• May require lifting and walking stairs.
• May require travel between school sites for staff check-ins/supervision.

• Individual must be a registered nurse, licensed in the State of Maryland or state where practicing.
• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or related discipline required.
• Require minimum of two years of related nursing experience preferably in school health nursing, with additional experience preferred.
• Additional experience may substitute for bachelor's degree and related master's degree may be considered in lieu of experience.
• Those eligible who are under final consideration for appointment will be required to undergo a criminal background investigation.

• Previous management/supervisor experience.
• School Nurse Certification.
• One year of experience in pediatrics.

Classified Title: Sr. Clinical Nurse 
Working Title: Community Health/School Health Nurse Supervisor   
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MF  
Starting Salary Range: Min $74,400 - Max $130,400 Annually ($100,380 budgeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: School of Nursing 
Department name: ​​​​​​​Community Programs  
Personnel area: School of Nursing 

Total Rewards
The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:
JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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