Deadline Extended* Senior Public Health Nurse

senior public health nurse

department of health & human services

are you interested in making a difference? If so, please consider joining our dedicated team at the department of health & human services!

• provides leadership nursing role in the implementation and evaluation of communicable disease program and the public health clinic services.
• provides leadership role as a disaster service worker (dsw), assisting with mass prophylaxis response, and communicable disease outbreak management.
• maintains knowledge of community health needs and organizational goals and provides community presentation related to infectious and vaccine preventable diseases.
• collect, review and analyzes data and statistical reports, as a part of program evaluation to inform evidence‑based practice and policy development.
• reviews regulations, mandates and provides quality assurance for the ph clinic and cd programs to ensure quality and compliance for state, federal and county regulations.
• maintain comprehensive, accurate and confidential records and prepares various reports for management and funding entities.

this position is located at 529 i street, eureka, ca 95501.

a typical work schedule for this position is m-f 8am - 5pm.

this position is represented by the afscme bargaining unit.

please note: the filing deadline has been extended, and this is now a continuous recruitment. Human resources reserves the right to close this recruitment at any time.

under direction, performs public health nursing duties in an assigned area and one or a combination of the following: serves as assistant supervisor for a team which includes other nurses and may also include para‑professionals and/or office staff; and/or has charge of a specialized health care program; performs related work as assigned.

this class provides public health nursing services for the more complex client cases, provides review, directional supervision for the work of professional nursing and para‑professional staff on an assigned team and/or may have independent responsibility for a major specialized public health program. This class is distinguished from the supervising public health nurse in that the latter has primary, supervisory responsibility for a public health nursing team and assigned specialized projects and programs.

• acts as the team leader on a health team with other professionals and para‑professionals in the delivery of public health nursing services.
• assigns client cases and assists in evaluation of team staff.
• provides consultation and guidance to team members on difficult client problems; assists in the training and orientation of staff.
• evaluates the health needs of individuals and special population groups from a wide variety of cultural and economic backgrounds, recent immigrant populations and those choosing alternate lifestyles.
• identifies the symptoms of physical, mental or emotional problems and refers individuals and families to appropriate financial, medical or other support services; performs follow‑up on such referrals.
• coordinates division services with private, public and community voluntary health and social service agencies; serves as liaison to community groups, assists them in identifying health needs, and provides public health education.
• gives immunizations and conducts immunization clinics; performs selected diagnostic tests under standardized procedures and gives prescribed treatments.
• provides prenatal and post‑partum nursing care and participates in well‑child clinics as assigned.
• may serve as primary staff in communicable disease clinics or assists in other clinics.
• may conduct a specialized health care or training program or project; assists in planning and development of programs and preparation of funding proposals.
• monitors and evaluates programs, projects and special services; prepares a variety of periodic and special reports for appropriate management review.

• basic supervisory principles and practices.
• principles, practices and current trends of public health nursing and the california nurse practice act rules and regulations and applicable state and…