Job Description

Stoneleigh-Burnham School, an independent girls’ boarding and day school for grades 7-12, seeks a nurse to work part-time, 20 hours a week, for the 2025-2026 school year, effective September 2025. Reporting to the Director of Health and Wellness, the health care provider will attend to the medical needs of the program and its participants. Tasks include ensuring a healthy and safe program environment, responding to student needs, communicating with parents, reviewing student medical files to ensure safe program participation, and distributing medication. A qualified candidate will be caring, capable, and prompt in handling any medical concerns that arise to ensure the well-being of each individual student.

Located near the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley, a short drive from the Five College Consortium (UMass Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and Amherst College), Stoneleigh-Burnham School attracts students from the local area and around the world. Our mission centers around helping girls discover and use their authentic voices. Employees who thrive at SBS are deeply passionate about their profession and about girls’ education, are collaborative colleagues, are excited by professional growth, and are committed to fostering an inclusive community. 

Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Emergency Care: Provide emergency medical attention to students. Assess, treat, and triage illness and emergencies. 
• Medication Distribution: Keep records of prescription and over-the-counter medications brought to the program by students and dispense them as scheduled and/or needed.
• Record keeping and HIPAA Compliance: Review student medical files to ensure both compliance with Massachusetts Department of Public Health requirements.
• Communication: Communicate effectively and confidently with the Director of Health & Wellness and parents in matters regarding students’ medical needs.

  Qualities and Qualifications:

• Must be licensed in Massachusetts.
• Ability to empathetically respond and support students with conditions such as allergies and asthma.
• Flexibility, positive attitude, and good work ethic.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Experience working with adolescents and teens in a school setting.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Applications:

Please send cover letter, resume, and references to Jen Potee, Email: jpotee@sbschool.org

In order to achieve our mission of preparing students to actively engage a diverse and inclusive world we must first emulate the values we hope to instill in our students. Stoneleigh-Burnham School is committed to increasing the diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences — of our faculty, staff and student community.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School strives to hire and support an inclusive community of employees; candidates from communities that are statistically and systemically underrepresented in independent schools are encouraged to apply.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Salary is commensurate with experience.

Our Mission:

Stoneleigh-Burnham School is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. We inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. Each student is challenged to discover her best self and graduate with confidence to think independently and act ethically, secure in the knowledge that her voice will be heard.

To learn more about Stoneleigh-Burnham School, please visit our website:  sbschool.org

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