Public Health Nurse - STI/HIV

About the role

This is advanced professional public health nursing work with team leader components.

Responsibilities

• Teaches and demonstrates principles and techniques of disease prevention and health maintenance.
• Takes and evaluates a health history; attains and maintains specific skills in performing basic physical assessments.
• Recognizes health needs, stresses importance of prevention of illness, and gives anticipatory guidance in growth and development.
• Advocates continuing treatment and health supervision in chronic illness and assists patients in securing medical and related services.
• Assists patients in following prescribed health care, assessing family situation and making appropriate nursing care plan.
• Participates in communicable disease programs, doing epidemiologic studies, and assisting with patient care, and interpreting the transmission of disease.
• Collaborates with community groups and organizations on public health nursing aspects of public health programs.
• Participates in planning and conducting educational programs for staff, students, observers, etc.
• Responds to public health emergencies as requested.

Requirements

• License Requirement: Possession of a license as a registered nurse as issued by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nurse Examiners.
• Residency: Allegheny County within 1 year.
• Veterans' Preference: Will be awarded to eligible candidates.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of:
• Basic principles, practices and techniques of professional nursing.
• The principles, practices and objectives of public health nursing, their application to specific diseases and their implications of social conditions.
• The resources available to persons in need of health services and ability to use them.
• The effects of illness on patients and family and on home environmental conditions.
• Microsoft Office programs including Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and other database programs.
• Electronic medical record keeping.
• Skill in:
• Nursing
• Case Management
• Interpersonal Communication
• Medical Education
• Consultation
• Nursing Documentation
• Community Engagement
• Data Entry
• Policy Analysis
• Team Building
• Microsoft Office
• Ability to:
• Teach basic principles of home nursing care and prevention of disease.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, patients and families.
• Delegate tasks and provide guidance to other staff or students.
• Orient inexperienced staff and other personnel to public health nursing practice.
• Keep accurate records and prepare statistical reports.
• Work with community groups and organizations.
• Travel to and from work locations to carry out assigned responsibilities.
• Represent ideas effectively, concisely and accurately, both orally and in writing and present themselves in a professional manner.
• Must be able to work in a team environment.
• Respond to public health emergencies.

Benefits

• Fringe Benefits: Paid holidays, personal days, vacation and sick leave benefits, medical coverage and dental benefits, a retirement plan, life insurance and a deferred compensation plan after eligibility requirements have been met.
• Perks Working for ACHD: Professional growth through training opportunities (CPR, First AID, Public Health Preparedness, Dignity and Respect, Points of Dispensing, and more); ability to advance in county system; job security; meaningfulness in daily work derived from public service; eligible for federal loan forgiveness; organizational commitment to ACHD’s mission to protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Allegheny County residents, particularly the most vulnerable.

Pay

Hourly: $36.00
Annual: $74,880.00

*Compensation may be applicable based on nursing experience

Schedule

Full-Time, Associate Level.

Grant funded positions are contingent upon grant funding