Senior Public Health Nurse
Senior Public Health Nurse
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Job Description
The Position
This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cutoffs are at 5:00 pm on:1/30/25 2/27/25 3/27/25 4/24/25 5/29/25 6/26/25 7/31/25 8/28/25 9/25/25 10/30/25 11/26/25 12/24/25Senior Public Health Nurses oversee and provide a variety of public health nursing services in a home group or clinic setting or in a specific program office in such areas as prevention and treatment of communicable disease; child health care growth and development; highrisk infants; home care guidance of the ill injured and aged; prevention and treatment of disabling illnesses; family planning; parenting; pre and postnatal care; immunization and inoculation; and public and community health care resources.
Incumbents work under general supervision of a Supervising Public Health Nurse or other professional nurse or a higherlevel program manager with medical direction as needed from a physician. The focus of duties is on serving as a program specialist and advisor providing assistance to other staff and performing the more difficult and complex public health nursing duties; incumbents may supervise or provide work direction to a small staff. Typical assignments of this class include the immunization assistance program maternal/child health programs disease control and elderly assistance.Examples of Knowledge and Abilities
Knowledge of
- Professional public health nursing principles procedures and techniques
- State of California laws and regulations on nursing practices
- Normal course of illnesses and disabilities and their treatment
- Family planning methods
- Prenatal pregnancy and postnatal nutrition and medical care
- Infant and child care growth and development including common illnesses
- Case management techniques and the care and treatment of high risk physically impaired and developmentally disabled infants and children
- Substance abuse symptoms and intervention techniques
- Mental illness symptoms and intervention techniques
- Symptoms prevention reporting requirements and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect
- Normal and abnormal family dynamics
- Techniques of organizing and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects
- Individual and group counseling techniques applicable to public health nursing
- Common public and community health care resources
- Social and economic factors influencing individual and community health
- Differing cultural religious and social attitudes about hygiene family planning child care and health treatment
- Proper handling and administering of biologicals
- Proper handling of contaminated items;
- Causes control detection prevention and treatment of common communicable diseases environmentally based illnesses sexually transmitted diseases and food and waterborne illnesses
- Procedures for conducting epidemological investigations
- Standard medical record keeping
- Effectively communicate with and gain the cooperation of clients and potential clients of various social cultural economic and educational backgrounds
- Work cooperatively with other health and social service providers
- Effectively conduct interviews of patients and families to gain information to evaluate their medical situation
- Determine and apply effective means of intervening in cases of mental illness and substance abuse
- Effectively conduct and participate in inservice education and training
- Effectively demonstrate and teach care of infants children the disabled and chronically ill to individuals in their homes
- Effectively teach public group classes
- Gain cooperation of patients and other individuals in investigating and treating communicable diseases and environmentallybased illnesses
- Tolerate unsanitary homes
- Learn and comply with laws rules regulations protocols and procedures including security requirements applicable to the work unit
- Recognize and avoid or defuse potentially dangerous situations and hostile people
- Accurately evaluate cases to determine caseload priorities
- Plan routes and schedule inhome visits to make most effective use of time
- Operate slide and movie projectors and use other teaching aids
- Maintain patient confidentiality
Employment Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Either: One year of experience as a Public Health Nurse in Sacramento County service.
Or: Two years of experience as a licensed/certified public health nurse performing public health nursing duties.
Note:- Experience requirements are stated as fulltime work; to convert parttime to fulltime equivalency: 173.6 21.7 days 1 work month.
- Required experience may be paid or unpaid.
Note: If the minimum qualifications include an educational or certificate/license requirement applicants must submit proof of requirements with the application. Failure to submit proof of requirements may result in disqualification from the examination. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable. For guidelines on submitting acceptable proof of educational requirements please click here or speak to someone in our office before the cutoff date listed in this notice.
Certificates/licenses:- All persons appointed to these classes must possess and maintain a current Registered Nurse license and public health nurse specialty certificate issued by the state of California.
Note: Failure to maintain such license and certification may be cause for disciplinary action in accordance with Civil Service Commission Rules. - All persons appointed to these classes must possess and maintain a current California drivers license class III or higher; failure to maintain such license may be cause for disciplinary action in accordance with Civil Service Commission Rules
- Persons appointed to these classes will be required to have or obtain and maintain a valid CPR certificate
- Some positions in the classes of Public Health Nurse and Senior Public Health Nurse may require the ability to communicate fluently in a language other than English in addition to English
When required the special skills may be used in the performance of typical tasks shown in the Example of Duties in this class specification. In addition incumbents translate and interpret using standard English and a language other than standard English; and/or act as a consultant to others regarding the needs and problems presented by individuals of different languages and cultural backgrounds.
The Civil Service Commission approved the use of selective certification for special skills for the classes of Public Health Nurse and Senior Public Health Nurse on May 12 1989.
The probationary period for this classification is six 6months.Application and Testing Information
APPLICATION
Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. All applicants must complete and submit an online County of Sacramento employment application by 5:00 PM on the posted cutoff date. Clickhere to apply.
County of Sacramento
Department of Personnel Services
Employment Services Division
700 H Street Room 4667
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone; 711 California Relay Service
Email
InterOffice Mail Code: 094667
www.SacCountyJobs- Employment applications and all documentation requested in this announcement must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the cutoff date.
- Employment Services is not responsible for any issues or delays caused by an applicants computer or web browser. Applicants will be automatically logged out if they have not submitted their applications and all documentation prior to 5:00 p.m. on the cutoff date.
- Your application should highlight all relevant education training and experience and clearly indicate how you meet the minimum qualifications for the position as of the cutoff date.
- Application information must be current concise and related to the requirements in this job announcement. You may only apply for this recruitment once. Duplicate and incomplete applications will be disqualified.
- A resume may be included with your application however it will not substitute for the information requested on the application.
SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONNAIRE
Applicants are required to provide a full and complete response to each supplemental question. The Supplemental Questionnaire is located in the tab marked Supplemental Questions. Please be descriptive in your response.
Note:Responses of See Resume or See Application or copy and paste of work experience are not qualifying responses and will not be considered.- Supplemental Questionnaires must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the cutoff date. Employment Services is not responsible for any issues or delays caused by an applicants computer or web browser. Applicants will be automatically logged out if they have not submitted their applications and all documentation prior to 5:00 p.m. on the cutoff date.
- The supplemental questions are designed to elicit specific information regarding a candidates experience education and training. Responses should be consistent with the information on your application and are subject to verification.
- Please provide place of employment pertinent dates and concise descriptive and detailed information for each question.
- If a job included responsibilities applicable to several questions separate the different functions of the job to answer all the questions completely.
- Resumes or referral to the application or other questionnaire responses will not be accepted in lieu of completing each question.
- If you have no experience write no experience for the appropriate question.
- For many individuals it is more efficient to develop responses to the supplemental questions in a word processing document and then paste them into the final document to be submitted. Changes or corrections to your Supplemental Questionnaire cannot be made once your application packet has been submitted.
- If the Supplemental Questionnaire is used in the Formula Rate exam failure to complete all of the questions or incomplete responses will result in a lower score. While scoring the Supplemental Questionnaire the candidates application and/or attachments will not be reviewed therefore a candidates responses to the questions should be accurate thorough detailed and complete.
FORMULA RATE EXAMINATION (Weighted 100
All candidates meeting the minimum qualifications by the cutoff date will have their Supplemental Questionnaire scored in the Formula Rate Examination.
This examination will evaluate the relevance level recency progression and quality of candidates education training and experience. The candidates application or other materials will not be included in this examination. Therefore the candidates responses to the supplemental questionnaire should be thorough detailed and complete. The score from the Formula Rate Examination will determine the ranking on the eligible/employment list for this job.
All candidates competing in the testing process will receive written notice of their examination results by email. Notices can also be accessed in their governmentjobs inbox. Applicants achieving a passing score will be placed on the eligible list in rank order. The rank is determined by the test score attained from the examination.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Clickhere for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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We are a proud equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability for any phase of the hiring process please contact our Disability Compliance Office at orCA Relay 711
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
