COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE - MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE - 7070

GRADE 20

PAY RANGE - $62,192 - $88,712/yr - plus a comprehensive benefits package

Part-Time or reduced hours option available $29.90 - $42.65/hr - plus a comprehensive benefits package for 32 hours/wk.

Performs community health nursing duties with the Health Department’s Healthy Start Home Visiting Program providing home visits, nursing care, education and resource support to high-risk expectant and post-partum mothers and their newborns. Performs related community health duties, such as case management and immunizations, public health education and screenings, public health and department public relations and public health promotional activities. Some experience in community health, women’s health, labor and delivery, post-partum, lactation, or newborn/child development.

General Statement of Duties:

Performs community health nursing duties, including case management and immunizations. Completes other public health duties such as communicable disease investigation and follow-up, public health education and screenings, and public health and department public relations and public health promotional activities. Performs related community health duties.

Examples of Essential Work:

• Plans, directs and evaluates community health programs across numerous program areas, including but not limited to, communicable disease investigation, clinical services for STDs and HIV/HCV, immunization services, and home visiting for chronic conditions and environmental exposures;
• Ensures all programming and services are consistent with Federal and State guidelines, regulations and statutes governing nursing practice, as well as local policies and ordinances;
• Compiles, analyzes and interprets narrative, statistical and program reports and records;
• Assists with preparing grant applications as needed and assigned;
• Manages patient caseloads and communicable disease investigations including individuals with severe medical, behavioral and/or psychological health concerns requiring trauma informed practices to meet their complex health needs;
• Completes community and/or public health investigations, including documentation and reporting;
• Monitors disease cases for compliance with isolation and quarantine; including properly using personal protective equipment when required;
• Performs complex medical procedures consistent with individualized health care plans as dictated by medical orders;
• Assures that standing medical orders and public health counter measures are deployed as directed by the Medical Director and State;
• Performs public health and department public relations and public health promotional activities;
• Provides specialized nursing consultative services, public health education, and recommendations to physicians and other health care providers;
• Performs immunizations, testing, health screening and assessments;
• Provides expanded off-site clinical services to reach vulnerable populations, such as immunization clinics in homeless shelters and via mobile outreach;
• Coordinates services and information with other agencies in order to provide clinical case management for clients, including referrals to primary care practices and other specialty services and community-based services as needed;
• Develops and maintains medical records and other related confidential documentation of case management for clients receiving direct nursing care services; including utilizing multiple confidential databases to record communicable disease cases;
• Collects and maintains data relating to public health issues;
• Provides needed information and demonstrations concerning how to perform certain work tasks to new employees in the same or similar class of positions; and more...

Acceptable Experience and Training:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing; and
• Some experience in community health or general nursing; or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work.

Required Special Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse in New Hampshire.
• Possession of a Valid New Hampshire Driver's License.
• CPR & First Aid Certification.

Required Additional Examples of Essential Work:

• Provides in-home direct pre-natal and post-partum nursing assessment, care, education and resources to high-risk mothers and their infants, including maternal health issues, preparation for delivery, breastfeeding support, newborn care, and more;
• Collaborates with other health care agencies, professionals and referring providers in the management and care of clients, including frequent inter-provider communications and regular attendance of health care team meetings;
• Ensures all programming and services are consistent with Federal and State guidelines, regulations and statutes governing nursing practice, as well as local policies and ordinances.

Salary : $62,192 - $88,712