An empty health office is a compliance problem before it is a scheduling problem. Whether your nurse went out on leave mid-semester, a retirement left a building uncovered, or a new charter campus opened with no clinic staff at all, the person who fills that chair has to arrive licensed, screened, and ready to work. Interim HealthCare Staffing of Indianapolis works as a school staffing agency in Indianapolis and across Central Indiana, placing school nurses, health aides, and student support staff with public school corporations, charter schools, and private schools. K-12 staffing is one of our three core service lines, alongside hospital staffing and community staffing for assisted living, long-term care, and memory care.
What a school staffing agency in Indianapolis actually does
The job is to stand between your open position and a licensed professional who can legally fill it. Most of that work happens before anyone shows up at your building.
We source from a healthcare candidate pool, not a general substitute list. Our recruiters place nurses and clinical support staff every day for hospitals and senior living communities across the metro. When a district calls, we are drawing from people who already hold current Indiana licensure and real clinical experience.
We verify credentials before a start date. Every professional is pre-screened, background-checked, and credentialed for the specific role before placement. School placements also include the background screening Indiana schools require of staff working with students.
We carry the employment burden. The nurse or aide we place is our employee. Payroll, tax withholding, workers' compensation, and liability coverage sit with us, which is the practical reason districts use an agency for a mid-year gap instead of scrambling through an emergency posting.
You work with one local contact. We are locally owned and operated, backed by Interim HealthCare, founded in 1966 as the nation's first healthcare staffing company. Your assignments are coordinated out of our Indianapolis office by someone you can reach by name.
We are also Joint Commission accredited, which is worth asking any staffing partner about before you put their people in front of students.
What Central Indiana districts are staffing for
The requests we get fall into a few recognizable shapes.
A nurse on leave. Medical leave, parental leave, or an unexpected October resignation. The building still needs daily medication administration, care plan management, and someone qualified to decide whether a student goes home.
A building that has never had coverage. New charter campuses open without a clinic staff bench, and so do expanding private schools. Sometimes the need is a full-time nurse. Sometimes it is a health aide working under nurse oversight.
Floating coverage across a district. Larger corporations often need one nurse rotating through several buildings on a set schedule rather than a nurse assigned to each.
One-on-one student health support. A single student with a complex care plan may need dedicated coverage for the school day, including field trips and transportation.
Daily absences. Even a fully staffed health office needs a bench for the days your own nurse calls out.
Roles we place in schools
School nurses (RN and LPN)
We place both RNs and LPNs in school health offices. Assignments range from a single building for the full school year to floating coverage across a district. The daily work is what you would expect from a school clinic: medication administration, immunization record review, chronic condition management, care plan documentation, and triage of whatever walks through the door.
Pediatric or school health experience helps but isn't always required. Plenty of capable school nurses came out of med-surg or emergency work and adapted quickly. We also handle school nurse staffing across Indiana beyond the Indianapolis metro.
Health aides and clinic support
Not every open seat needs an RN. Health aides handle vision and hearing screenings, first aid, medication passes under nurse delegation, and the documentation load that otherwise consumes a nurse's day. For a district running one nurse across several buildings, an aide in each building is often the more workable structure. Our guide to school health aide staffing covers how those roles get scoped.
We also place student support staff for districts that need additional non-clinical help in and around the health office.
Substitute and daily coverage
Day-to-day coverage is its own service. You call, we fill: a single day, a week, or an open-ended stretch while you recruit for the permanent seat. Once we have your building requirements, medication protocols, and check-in process on file, a repeat request skips the intake step entirely. Here is how substitute school nurse coverage works day to day.
How school-year contracts work
School placements come in a few structures, and the right one usually depends on how long the gap runs.
- Full school-year contracts. One professional in one building for the academic year, following your calendar.
- Long-term assignments. Multi-week or multi-month coverage for a leave, a vacancy, or a newly opened health office.
- Day-to-day coverage. Single-day and short-notice fills.
The school calendar is a recruiting advantage. School assignments run daytime hours on the school calendar, with no nights, no weekends, and school breaks off. That schedule pulls in experienced nurses who have left bedside rotations behind, which is a large part of why school roles are fillable at all.
Continuity matters more in a school than in most settings. A student with a seizure protocol or a diabetes care plan does better with a nurse who already knows the plan. We prioritize sending back the same people so families and building staff see a familiar face rather than a rotating cast.
Timing. Mid-year gaps we handle year-round, but school-year coverage in particular tends to get locked in during spring and summer. If you are budgeting next year's health office staffing, that conversation goes better in April than in the week before the first bell.
Licensure, background checks, and school health compliance
Your district carries the liability for who is in the building, so here is what we verify before a placement starts.
- Active Indiana license in good standing. Every nurse we place in a school holds a current Indiana RN or LPN license through the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
- Current CPR certification.
- The background screening Indiana schools require of staff working with students. This is on top of the standard screening every Interim professional clears.
- Role-specific credentialing. We credential for the actual assignment rather than a generic profile.
We are Joint Commission certified, and the screening and credentialing process we run for school placements is the same one we run for hospital and senior living work. Districts do not get a lighter version of it.
If you are a nurse rather than a district, our openings are listed separately. Start with school nurse jobs in Indianapolis.
Service area: where our school staffing agency in Indianapolis places staff
We staff schools in Indianapolis and 22 Central Indiana counties. Cities we serve include Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, Greenwood, Franklin, Avon, Plainfield, Brownsburg, Greenfield, Anderson, Muncie, Kokomo, Lafayette, Columbus, Bloomington, Martinsville, and Shelbyville.
Inside that footprint we place with public school corporations, charter schools, and private schools. If your district sits at the edge of the map, talk to our Indianapolis office before assuming we cannot reach you. Our recruiters know where their candidates are actually willing to drive.
Our office is at 3950 Priority Way South Drive, Suite 106, Indianapolis, IN 46240, open Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The phone number is (317) 956-4024.
How to request school staff
Four steps, start to finish.
- Tell us what you need. Role, building, start date, schedule, and any student-specific requirements.
- We match the right professional. We pull from our Central Indiana pool and screen against what you described.
- We credential and confirm. License verification, background screening, and role credentialing finish before the start date, and we confirm the placement with you.
- You get reliable ongoing coverage. A dedicated local contact stays on your account for the length of the assignment.
You can request staff for your district online or call the Indianapolis office at (317) 956-4024 during business hours. For next school year, reach out in the spring while the candidate pool is still open.
Frequently Asked Questions
How quickly can you place a school nurse in an Indianapolis district?
It depends on the role and how specific the requirements are. A day-to-day substitute request moves fastest, because the licensing and screening work for those nurses is already complete and we are matching on availability. A full-year contract in a single building takes longer, since we are matching for fit and continuity and the credentialing and confirmation steps have to finish before a start date. Rather than quote you a standard turnaround, we will tell you on the intake call what is realistic for your situation.
Do you staff full school-year contracts or only substitutes?
Both, and the range in between. We place full school-year contracts in a single building, long-term assignments covering a leave or vacancy, floating coverage across multiple buildings in a district, one-on-one student health support, and day-to-day substitute coverage. Many districts use us for more than one of these at the same time.
Are your school nurses licensed in Indiana and background-checked?
Yes. Every nurse we place in a school holds an active Indiana RN or LPN license in good standing through the Indiana State Board of Nursing, plus current CPR certification. Every professional is pre-screened, background-checked, and credentialed for the role before placement, and school placements include the background screening Indiana schools require of staff working with students. We are Joint Commission certified.
Which Central Indiana counties and school districts do you serve?
We cover Indianapolis and 22 Central Indiana counties, including districts in and around Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, Greenwood, Franklin, Avon, Plainfield, Brownsburg, Greenfield, Anderson, Muncie, Kokomo, Lafayette, Columbus, Bloomington, Martinsville, and Shelbyville. We place with public school corporations, charter schools, and private schools across that area. If your district is near the edge of that footprint, call the Indianapolis office and ask.