PH Nurse Senior

Title: PH Nurse Senior

State Role Title:RN II/Nurse Prct I/Phy Asst

Hiring Range: $80262- $87006

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location:VIRGINIA BEACH HQ

Agency Website:

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

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 programmingwhere 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. Youll be at the forefront of program development guiding transformational initiatives such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Every Womans Life (EWL) and Family Planning. Your leadership will ensure our programs remain innovative accessible and responsive to the needs of our community.

What Youll Lead and Achieve:

• 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 highrisk 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 wellbeing and public health
  
• Build strong sustainable partnerships with community organizations and clinical providers

Health Care Personnel: VDH requires all Health-Care Personnel (HCP) to provide documentation of immunization or evidence of immunity to the following: hepatitis B measles mumps rubella and varicella; a one-time dose of tetanus diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine regardless of the interval since the last dose of tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine was administered (Td or Tdap boosters shall be received every 10 years); and the current years seasonal influenza vaccination.

Diversity: We value diversity and recognize the unique perspectives that individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds bring to our team. We welcome bilingual individuals to apply. Your language skills are valuable and help us better serve diverse communities


Benefits: The Virginia Department of Health offers 12 paid holidays medical dental vision and life insurance retirement plans (including 401a Cash Match and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan) as well as sick family/personal and annual leave.

This Position will be responsible for: Program Leadership Community Liaison and Direct Patient CareProgram Leadership

• 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 populationlevel 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

Community Liaison

• 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 communityoriented
• and populationlevel 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

Direct Patient Care

• 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
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 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
  

Additional Considerations

• 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
  

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to Your Application in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

VDH accepts only on-line applications. Faxed mailed or e-mailed applications will not be considered. Applications are accepted until 11:55 p.m. on the job closing date. Applications and/or resumes should include relevant work history which indicates your qualifications for this position. Supplemental questions are encouraged to be answered in a comprehensive manner and reference any pertinent knowledge skills and abilities as well as any previous experience that relates to the position.

Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a state and federal criminal history background check and the Department of Social Services Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry check U.S. HHSIG Exclusion List check employment reference check and E-Verify. Other financial credit driving background checks or completion of Statement of Economic Interests may be required for certain positions.

It is the policy of the Commonwealth and VDH that all aspects of human resource management be conducted without regard to race (or traits historically associated with race including hair texture hair type and protective hairstyles such as braids locks and twists); sex; color; national origin; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; age; veteran status; political affiliation; disability; genetic information; and pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions. VDH employees have a shared Code of Ethics which can be found in the bottom banner of our website: .

If you have been affected by DHRM Policy 1.30 layoff and possess a valid Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Card) or a Preferential Hiring Form (Blue Card) you must submit the card before the closing date for this position. The Card may be submitted with the state application as an attachment.

As a V3 (Virginia Values Veterans) employer VDH Welcomes Veterans to apply!

Contact Information

Name: Cydnee Stuckey

Phone:

Email:

In support of the Commonwealths commitment to inclusion we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS) or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation if applicable to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at .

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1 2022- February 29 2024 can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.