School Nurse

Compensation: $65,000 – $80,000 (commensurate with experience and qualifications)

Housing: On-campus housing may be available for interested candidates

Schedule: Full-Time | 3 days a week, 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM (includes some evening/overnight on-call responsibilities), 10-month position

At EF Academy Thornwood, our campus is much more than a school. It is a vibrant, global home away from home for students from every corner of the world. We believe bright minds truly flourish when students feel healthy, supported, safe, and cared for.

As our School Nurse , you will be at the heart of our residential community. Beyond managing our Health Center, you will serve as a comforting, dependable presence for teenagers who are navigating high school, often while living away from their families for the first time. If you bring clinical excellence, a warm heart, and a genuine love for supporting young adults in a multicultural setting, we would love to welcome you to our school family.

• Care with Heart: Warmly assess, triage, and care for students visiting the Health Center with acute illnesses, minor injuries, or ongoing health needs, offering a comforting and skilled presence.
• Proactive Wellness: Empower students with supportive guidance on healthy everyday habits, including nutrition, hydration, sleep, illness prevention, and managing stress.
• Specialized Care & Referrals: Recognize when a student needs care beyond the Health Center and coordinate warm referrals to trusted primary care doctors, urgent care, specialists, or emergency services.
• Attentive Follow-Up: Provide thoughtful ongoing care and monitoring for students as they recover from an illness, injury, or hospital visit, helping them transition back into campus life.
• Thorough Documentation: Maintain accurate, thoughtful, and strictly confidential records of student visits, assessments, and follow-up care.

• Partnering with Families: Communicate with empathy, clarity, and reassurance to parents and guardians regarding significant health updates, medical appointments, or ongoing concerns across time zones.
• Guiding Global Students: Patiently help our international students navigate the U.S. healthcare system, offering culturally sensitive guidance every step of the way.
• Collaborative Care: Partner closely with residential life staff, athletic coaches, counseling, faculty, and outside healthcare providers to build a strong safety net around each student.
• Seamless Appointments: Help coordinate student medical appointments, specialists, medical clearances, and transportation with local healthcare providers.
• Confidentiality & Trust: Share necessary health information with school staff on a need-to-know basis to ensure student safety, while fiercely protecting student privacy.

• Responsive Emergency Care: Serve as a calm, confident responder to medical emergencies across campus, coordinating seamlessly with EMS and local emergency providers when necessary.
• Safety Preparedness: Maintain campus emergency readiness, including the oversight of AEDs, first-aid equipment, and Health Center medical supplies.
• Empowering Staff: Provide clear guidance and training for residential staff regarding evening and weekend health protocols, basic first aid, emergency response, and Epi Pen administration.
• Athletic Care: Support our student-athletes by assessing and caring for sports injuries, collaborating with coaches and residential staff on treatment plans and safe return-to-play protocols.

• Welcoming Environment: Oversee the daily operations of the Health…