Public Health Nurse Flex; PCN

Public Health Nurse 1/2 Flex (PCN 061850) in Kodiak, AK

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

This position is open to All Applicants.

This position will be filled at either the 1, or 2 level, depending on the applicant's qualifications and job experience.

Public Health Nurses (PHN’s) strengthen Alaska communities through preventive care, disease monitoring, and health improvement efforts. Depending on your experience, this flexibly staffed PHN 1/2 position allows you to start as a trainee as a PHN 1 or work independently as a PHN 2 under the guidance of a PHN 3. This position serves the Kodiak Public Health Center and delivers comprehensive services to the community.

• Accountability: We are committed to responsible use of human, financial, and environmental resources.
• Respect: We provide services without discrimination or judgment.
• Human potential: We are committed to developing each Alaskan’s potential as a healthy individual as well as fostering strong, healthy communities.
• Integrity: We are honest and ethical in all we do.
• Scientific Excellence: We are committed to adding to and contributing to the body of scientific knowledge and using the best available knowledge and data to set public health policy.

Become a member of an innovative team that collaborates with communities across Alaskan cities and villages to create meaningful contributions to the public’s health. Learn and grow in the remote areas of Alaska while making a difference where we live, work, and play. State of Alaska employees are eligible for benefits such as 12 paid holidays, leave accrual, annual/bi-annual pay increases, and many more.

For more in-depth benefit information, please visit: https://drb.alaska.gov/employee/.

Kodiak is approximately 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. Kodiak is easily accessible by scheduled air service from Anchorage and is also on the Alaska Marine Highway ferry route. The island is home to both Alaska's largest fishing fleet and the largest Coast Guard base in the nation. A national wildlife refuge and several state parks offer abundant outdoor recreation. The Kodiak Public Health Center is located downtown, with many businesses and attractions nearby.

Public Health Nurses can expect to serve patients at the health center as well as engaging community partners throughout the beautiful “Emerald Isle.”

• Adaptability: adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
• Interpersonal
  
  Skills:
  
  Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile,…