About this role
The Hospital School Teacher plays a vital role in supporting the educational continuity of hospitalized children. This position ensures that patients maintain academic progress during hospitalization by adapting instruction to meet individual needs and collaborating with their home schools.
Key Responsibilities
Provide individualized instruction to hospitalized children across a range of grade levels and academic subjects.
Collaborate with patients’ enrolled schools to obtain and implement current educational materials and assignments.
Utilize and follow Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) when available to support students’ learning goals.
Modify curriculum and teaching strategies to accommodate medical conditions such as chronic illnesses, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, brain and spinal tumors, and organ transplants.
Maintain accurate records of student progress and communicate regularly with families, medical teams, and school personnel.
Create a supportive and engaging learning environment that respects each child’s physical and emotional needs.
Advocate for the educational rights and needs of hospitalized children.
Position Responsibilities
- Educational Planning & Instruction: Develop and deliver personalized education plans to ensure learning continuity during hospitalization
- Instructional Adaptation: Tailor teaching methods to individual learning styles and medical needs across grade levels
- Engaging Learning Activities: Create interactive and meaningful educational experiences
- Assessment & Evaluation: Administer diagnostic tests and evaluate instructional effectiveness
- Transition Support: Coordinate post-discharge educational planning with families, schools, and hospital staff
- IEP Collaboration: Contribute to the development and implementation of Individualized Education Plans
- Recordkeeping: Document educational services in patient medical records
- Internship Oversight: Manage the PedsAcademy Internship Program in partnership with UCF
- Professional Development: Maintain required certifications through continuing education
- Patient Experience Initiatives: Lead efforts to enhance the educational experience for hospitalized children
- Reporting: Compile monthly teaching statistics
- Program Support: Supervise volunteers and perform additional duties as assigned
Position Requirements
- Master's Degree in Education with a valid Florida teaching certification required
- 3 years Experience as hospital based teacher preferred
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.
Other facts
About Nemours Children's Health
Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
What you'll do
- The Special Education Teacher provides individualized instruction to hospitalized children and collaborates with their home schools to ensure educational continuity. They adapt teaching methods to meet the unique needs of each student, maintain accurate records, and advocate for the educational rights of hospitalized children.
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