Public Health Nurse II

Exam #21/52E22/03RUT – Final filing date: 07/20/2025

About the role

The Health Department’s Public Health Bureau is seeking to fill vacant Public Health Nurse II positions in the Community Based Nursing, Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, and Children’s Medical Services divisions.

Responsibilities

The Public Health Nurse II (PHN) will perform the full scope of Public Health Nursing duties by initiating and carrying out special programs under limited supervision. The PHN will be part of a team of professional, para-professional, and support staff that collaborate to ensure comprehensive health services are provided throughout Monterey County. Programs include:

• Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP): Provides specially trained nurses to partner with low-income first-time mothers, beginning at approximately the 28th week of pregnancy, to promote and teach positive health and development behaviors and improve economic self-sufficiency. The program continues to work with the mother and child until the child’s second birthday.
• Maternal Child Adolescent Health (MCAH): Works to improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and adolescents through community leadership and nurse case management by assuring access to health promotion and health care services. Includes Perinatal Services Coordination and SIDS Coordination.
• Enhanced Care Management (ECM): Provides comprehensive case management services to individuals who may be experiencing homelessness, frequent use of hospital emergency and inpatient services, behavioral health diagnoses, and/or are pregnant or postpartum with multiple social determinants of health.
• Tuberculosis Control Unit (TBU): Provides early identification of Tuberculosis patients to prevent TB transmission and spread in the county. The PHN II provides case management services to community members with active TB, including monitoring treatment and medication compliance, specimen collection, and ensuring urgent medical and psychosocial needs are met. Administers the Directly Observed Therapy program in Monterey County.
• Communicable Disease Unit (CDU): Provides communicable disease prevention and control services for all Monterey County residents. Activities include conducting detailed interviews, collecting biological specimens, delivering health education, linking clients to treatment and/or preventative services, and providing guidance to medical providers, schools, and congregate living facilities on screening, treatment, and infection control practices.
• California Children’s Services (CCS): Determines financial and medical eligibility for children under age 21 for CCS-eligible diagnostic and treatment services, medical case management, and physical and occupational therapy services.
• Child Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP): Seeks to prevent, screen, diagnose, and treat childhood lead poisoning through nurse case management, education, and environmental interventions.

Requirements

• Possession of a license in active status to practice as a registered nurse in California and possession of a Public Health Nursing Certificate.
• Possession of a valid California Driver’s License.
• Due to the sensitive nature of these positions, the Health Department reserves the right to fingerprint and conduct police background checks of appointees for some positions.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record demonstrating the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Knowledge of principles, methods, and practices of public health nursing.
• Knowledge of community aspects of nursing programs, including provisions for continuity of patient care, nursing services in health programs, care of the homeless, and nursing care in the home.
• Ability to use community resources for assistance in public health programs.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing public health.
• Knowledge of epidemiologic investigation, control and care of chronic and communicable diseases and illness, handicapping conditions, mental illness, and other disabling conditions.
• Knowledge of environmental, sociological, and psychological problems associated with public health nursing clients and families.
• Knowledge of normal and abnormal human physiological development and behavior patterns.
• Prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
• Knowledge of principles and procedures involved with complex chronic disease management, mental illness and substance abuse, family planning, sexually transmitted disease control, maternal, child and adolescent health, and communicable diseases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of audiences.
• Proficient in the use of technology.
• Ability to provide excellent and courteous customer service.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.

Experience and Education

The knowledge, skills, and abilities listed above may be acquired through:

• One year of responsible professional experience in public health nursing.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience to satisfactorily perform these duties.

Benefits

The County offers an excellent benefits package (S Unit). A summary of benefits for this position can be viewed on the County website.

As of August 14, 2023, the Health Department may offer up to a $10,000 signing bonus to candidates hired into regular full-time positions for this classification from this recruitment.