PH Nurse Senior

DHRM•Virginia Beach, VA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Are you driven by purpose, passionate about improving community health, and energized by meaningful, hands-on public health work? Join our team as a key leader in STI prevention and wellness programming—where your expertise will directly shape healthier futures for individuals, families, and communities. In this role, you will lead comprehensive STI prevention, assessment, treatment, and case management services. You’ll be at the forefront of program development, guiding transformational initiatives such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Every Woman’s Life (EWL), and Family Planning. Your leadership will ensure our programs remain innovative, accessible, and responsive to the needs of our community.

Requirements

Must be certified in Basic Life Support (BLS)/CPR
Able to be fit tested and perform fit testing for other staff in accordance with OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134) [Ref.2] regulations
Experience functioning in a leadership role
Experience and ability to function independently in the home/clinic/community/school settings and prioritize workload
Exercises sound nursing judgment
Effective verbal, written, interpersonal/physical assessment skills
Experience and ability to enter, review, analyze data and statistics and produce reports and/or recommendations from such information
Ability to work in a fast paced, data driven environment
Experience and knowledge of nursing process, health maintenance, disease processes, physical and behavioral sciences, case management process and basic principles of epidemiology
Work effectively as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team
Knowledge and experience in use of computers and computer applications; including Internet, Microsoft Office, and Google Mail applications
Experience and ability to work with diverse cultural backgrounds
May travel and some weekend and/or evening hours may be required
Excellent communication, data interpretation and computer skills
Must be able to demonstrate decision making skills, teaching, interviewing, counseling skills and the ability to analyze problems/situations and problem solve

Nice To Haves

Additional study in health promotion/or public health is preferred
Public health experience
BSN preferred
Experience in a public health setting or one related to disease prevention and health promotion
If working with the EPI response team, Certified in Infection Control (CIC) preferred and experience in hospital or long-term care facility infection control

Responsibilities

Provide high-quality, client-centered STI testing, treatment, and follow-up care
Supervise and support clinical staff delivering STI-related services
Manage and consult on complex or high‑risk cases, including syphilis, HIV, and repeat infections
Partner closely with epidemiologists to investigate outbreaks and identify clusters
Collaborate with Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) to strengthen prevention, control, and treatment efforts
Track, analyze, and interpret STI trends to inform strategic interventions
Design, implement, and evaluate STI prevention programs that make a measurable difference
Ensure timely, confidential partner notification that supports client well‑being and public health
Build strong, sustainable partnerships with community organizations and clinical providers
Provides leadership by supporting the State and District visions, missions and goals; complies with organizational procedures and policies
Develops policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
Develops quality improvement indicators and core measures as part of the process to enhance public health programs and services
Supports research across disciplines related to public health priorities and population‐level interventions
Applies the requirements of patient confidentiality, human subject protection and research ethics into data collection and processing
Identifies opportunities to use public health informatics skills to improve public health programs and business operations
Demonstrate ethical standards of practice in all aspects of public health and public health nursing as the basis of all interactions with individuals, communities, and organizations
Recommends a course of action in response to identified ethical issues
Supports the development of interprofessional teams and workgroups
Uses a comprehensive set of relevant variables within and across systems to measure health and public health conditions
Uses policy analysis methods to align with public health nursing practice and public health issues
As required monitors VEDSS, ESSENCE and other epidemiology technology to identify trends/outbreaks and participates in vaccine preventable illness response and may collect specimens and/or administer vaccinations to children and adults
As required in support of an emergency, serves as a key member of the emergency epi response team and assists the local emergency planner in responding to outbreaks and other “all hazards” incidents
May be responsible for communicable disease investigations and assisting with outbreaks in schools, the community, nursing facilities and other congregate care settings (including but not limited to prisons and homeless shelters
May serve as the subject matter nursing expert for communicable disease issues in the district
Promotes public health awareness, health risk reduction and preventative health in the community through community screenings, mass clinics, community programs, and community events
Informs, educates and empowers the community regarding health issues
Maintains knowledge of current community resources and provides inter and intra agency collaboration to meet needs
Serves as community liaison by meeting with community groups, employers, committees and task forces to promote public health awareness, risk reduction and resource development
Identifies/participates in community activities that enhance public knowledge of services
Assists with the community health assessment and improvement planning processes through partnerships with communityservices, and providing information regarding the locality; assess the quality of various data collection methods used to conduct a comprehensive community/population assessment
Assist with obtaining and maintaining health-related data about social and cultural environments, needs and interests
Uses data related to the determinants of health and community resources to plan for, analyze, and evaluate community‐oriented and population‐level programs
Apply methods and practices to access public health information for individuals, families, and groups
Uses networks among community organizations and systems conducive to improving the health within programs, communities and populations
Supports the delivery of community health services to community groups and partners
Identify evidence of the effectiveness of community engagement strategies on individuals, families, and groups
Provides direct patient care services and case management in clinics, homes and the community
Independently performs nursing assessments and administers patient care services in clinics, school and community settings
Uses existing concepts, models, theories, policy and evidence to plan, conduct and evaluate population-level interventions to address specific public health issues
Uses planning models, epidemiology and other analytical methods in the development, implementation, and evaluation of population-level interventions
Uses epidemiological data, concepts and other evidence to analyze the determinants of health when developing and tailoring population‐ level health services
Plans for health services delivery that integrates cultural perceptions of health and disease and addresses the needs of culturally diverse populations
Uses public health and nursing science in practice at community and populations level