Public Health Nurse

Position Details

Position: Public Health Nurse

Department: Health and Human Services

Location: Cambridge, MN

Job Type: Full-time (40 hours per week)

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Work Setting: On-site; requires regular, in-person attendance

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Union Affiliation: Non-Union

• Expected 2026 Hiring Range: $34.12 – $36.37 per hour ($70,969.60 – $75,649.60 annually), depending on qualifications, relevant experience, and internal equity.
• Full Range: $34.12 – $44.07 per hour ($70,696.60 – $91,665.60 annually), with the potential for additional longevity-based pay.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care
• Life insurance (basic coverage for yourself plus optional voluntary coverage)
• Long‑term disability insurance
• Paid Time Off, including vacation, sick, and personal leave
• 12 paid holidays per year
• Deferred compensation plans
• Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) contributions from both employer and employee
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Wellness Program

Performs work promoting and protecting the health of individuals, families, and communities through teaching, counseling, and applying preventative and rehabilitative measures, providing vaccines to individuals at county clinics, providing direct health care, education, and consultation to members of the community, responding to public health emergencies in a variety of settings, serving as back‑up for staff positions, and related work as apparent or assigned.

Work is performed under the direction of the Public Health Supervisor.

• Coordinates a variety of community health programs such as:
  • Disease Prevention and Control
  • Child and Teen Child‑Outreach
  • Children's Dental services
  • Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
  • Birth Defects
  • Elevated Blood Lead
  • Perinatal Hep B
  • Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program
  • Family Home Visiting Programs:
    • Maternal Early Childhood Sustaining Home Visiting Program (MECSH)
    • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
    • Maternal Child Health (MCH)
    • Very Best Baby (VBB)
    • Teenage Parenting Program (TAPP)
  • Follow Along Program
  • Pregnancy Testing
  • Support of Aging and Disability Unit to provide nursing assessment
• Assists with grant and budget management of programs.
• Provides direction for Health Services Programs as needed or required.
• Consults and cooperates with school and community personnel in promoting health programs.
• Assesses individual and family needs through assessments completed by the nurse.
• Develops and implements plans of care for the individual or family.
• Assists in all phases of planning, detecting, controlling, and responding to viral pandemic and other health emergencies potentially affecting the public.
• Provides education and referrals to community resources.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, and minimal experience in home and community‑based nursing, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minnesota Board of Nursing Registered Nurse on hire.
• Minnesota Board of Nursing Public Health Nurse Certificate.
• CPR (any certified person to teach CPR) on hire.
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and proof of insurance.

• Registered Dietician.

• Knowledge of nursing methods and techniques and how each is applied to the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual functioning of the individual and family.
• Knowledge of the functions of Federal, State, Health Care Plans, and other health care and social agencies and their relationships to public health programs.
• Knowledge of billing practices of the health care plans.
• Skill in assessing client's comprehensive needs and implementing and evaluating nursing care plans, which use a broad array of community services.
• Skill in the use of personal computers, associated software packages, hardware, and peripheral equipment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Ability to keep detailed records and to make written and oral reports and generate computer reports.
• Ability to make…