Job Description:
Villa Duchesne is seeking an experienced School Nurse to serve both our upper and lower schools. This candidate will oversee the emotional, mental, physical, and social health of our students. This position is required to provide students with basic health services throughout the school day and manage students with chronic health conditions by creating and enforcing care plans. This candidate will have a conferred associate or bachelor’s degree within Nursing, be licensed as a registered nurse (RN) within the State of Missouri, and have previous school nursing experience.

All faculty and staff of Villa Duchesne must commit to educating by the values articulated in the Goals and Criteria for Sacred Heart Schools in the United States-Canada. Our Villa Duchesne Sacred Heart Educators inspire our students everyday with learning and community opportunities. 

Villa Duchesne Sacred Heart Educators:  

1. Embody the attitudes of Christ’s heart: gratitude, generosity, compassion, and forgiveness. Educating is our vocation, and the ability to lead students to encounter Christ enables us to foster more loving relationships.
2. Believe in every student. We are invested in caring for the spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional well-being of each child. 
3. Are experts in their subjects. We exhibit professional excellence and innovation in teaching. Through passion for our craft, we instill a love of learning within each child. We maintain high standards of research-based training and are committed to extensive professional development.
4. Foster trusting relationships to create a safe environment where learning and empathy are possible. Our trusting relationships with students enable them to discover new abilities, cultivate strengths, learn from mistakes, and develop and exercise resilience in meeting challenges.
5. Immerse students in global perspectives, compassionate action, and courageous hope. By inspiring curiosity and encouraging critical consciousness within our students, our students can realize their full potential as agents of transformation.