PH Nurse Sr. (VDHRN031)

Virginia Information Technologies Agency • Salem, VA

2d • $62,100 - $87,006

About The Position

The Public Health Nurse Senior provides comprehensive public health nursing services primarily at the Salem and Vinton offices of the Roanoke City/Alleghany Health District. The position serves as the lead nurse for Family Planning and STI services at both locations, ensuring high-quality clinical care, coordination of services, and adherence to program guidelines.

This is a non-supervisory leadership role and nursing program expert position. The nurse develops program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures; reports program performance; serves as a primary contact for staff and external inquirers; monitors service delivery for compliance; and promotes programs to increase utilization and public awareness. Duties include nursing assessments, possible laboratory testing and measurements, care planning, medication administration, case management, and possible supervision of support staff. The role requires RN licensure.

The position also provides community liaison services and direct patient care across clinics, homes, schools, and community settings. Other duties may be assigned. The employee may be asked to assist during a gubernatorial emergency declaration and to adjust work hours, location, or duties, participate in training, and periodically attend meetings or training at the assigned office. The job posting describes possible field work and telework at an alternate location if the position is designated as a mobile worker.

Requirements

• RN licensure as required by state code.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS)/CPR certification.
• Ability to be fit tested and to perform fit testing for other staff under the OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134).
• Experience in a leadership role and ability to work independently in home, clinic, community, and school settings while prioritizing workload.
• Sound nursing judgment and effective verbal, written, interpersonal, and physical-assessment skills.
• Ability to enter, review, and analyze data and statistics and produce reports or recommendations; ability to work in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.
• Knowledge and experience in the nursing process, health maintenance, disease processes, physical and behavioral sciences, case management, and basic epidemiology.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team.
• Knowledge and experience using computers and applications, including the Internet, Microsoft Office, and Google Mail.
• Experience working with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Excellent communication, data-interpretation, and computer skills.
• Decision-making, teaching, interviewing, and counseling skills, and ability to analyze and solve problems or situations.
• Ability to travel; some weekend and/or evening hours may be required.
• Health-care personnel must provide documentation of immunization or immunity for hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella; documentation of a one-time Tdap dose and boosters every 10 years; and current-season influenza vaccination.
• Employment is contingent on satisfactory background and reference checks, including state and federal criminal-history, child-abuse and neglect registry, HHS OIG exclusion-list, employment reference, and E-Verify checks.

Nice To Haves

• Public health experience.
• If working with the EPI response team, Certified in Infection Control (CIC) certification is preferred, along with experience in infection control at a hospital or long-term care facility.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in support of State and District visions, missions, goals, procedures, and policies.
• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
• Develop quality-improvement indicators and core measures for public health programs and services.
• Support interdisciplinary research related to public health priorities and population-level interventions.
• Apply patient confidentiality, human-subject protection, and research ethics requirements to data collection and processing.
• Identify opportunities to use public health informatics to improve programs and business operations.
• Demonstrate ethical practice and recommend courses of action in response to identified ethical issues.
• Support the development of interprofessional teams and workgroups.
• Promote public health awareness, risk reduction, and preventive health through screenings, mass clinics, community programs, and events.
• Inform, educate, and empower the community regarding health issues.
• Maintain knowledge of community resources and collaborate across and within agencies to meet needs.
• Serve as a community liaison with groups, employers, committees, and task forces to promote awareness, risk reduction, and resource development.
• Participate in community activities that increase public knowledge of services.
• Assist with community health assessment and improvement planning, partnerships, locality information, and assessment of data-collection methods.
• Help obtain and maintain health-related data about social and cultural environments, needs, and interests.
• Provide direct patient care and case management in clinics, homes, and the community.
• Independently conduct nursing assessments and administer patient-care services in clinics, schools, and community settings.
• Plan, conduct, and evaluate population-level interventions using applicable concepts, models, theories, policies, and evidence.
• Use planning models, epidemiology, and analytical methods to develop, implement, and evaluate population-level interventions.
• Use epidemiological data and other evidence to analyze health determinants when developing and tailoring population-level services.
• Plan health-service delivery that accounts for cultural perceptions of health and disease and the needs of culturally diverse populations.
• Serve as lead nurse for Family Planning and STI services at the Salem and Vinton locations, coordinating services and ensuring clinical quality and program compliance.
• Perform other assigned duties and, when required, assist the agency or state government during emergencies; adjust work hours, location, or duties and participate in training to meet public health needs.

Benefits

• 13 paid holidays
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plans, including a 401a Cash Match and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
• Sick leave
• Family/personal leave
• Annual leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed