What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Health Nurse Supervisor position at Jefferson County Health Department?
Description
Position Summary:
The Public Health Nursing Supervisor (PHNS) is an advanced public health nursing position responsible for supervising staff, overseeing patient care, and ensuring adherence to established policies and procedures. The PHNS is a working supervisor that spends approximately 50% of their time providing hands-on care or coordination to patients, and approximately 50% performing administrative tasks such as reporting, people management, and oversight of patient care provided by agency nurses. The PHNS reports to the Clinical Services Manager and collaborates directly with the Community Clinical Supervisor and Office Support Services Supervisor to plan and prioritize clinics at JCHD locations and across Jefferson County. This position is a liaison between clinical staff, patients, community members, and agency administration. This role helps to build the team and promote an atmosphere of continuous quality improvement and growth. The PHNS works directly with frontline clinical staff (Medical Assistants, Nurses, and Nurse Practitioners) to align patient care and clinical service delivery.
Essential Activities:
Evaluate and provide skilled nursing care to treat patients as medically necessary:
- Investigate and assess medical needs.
- Administer medication injections and immunizations.
- Prescribe treatment plans and counsel appropriately.
- Regularly evaluate plan of care for implementation.
- Document patient encounters timely and accurately.
- Monitor and update the agency Standing Orders.
Provide ongoing health maintenance and clinical management:
- Direct and assist with screening programs.
- Collect laboratory specimens and conduct laboratory and diagnostic testing.
- Consult with other professionals.
Maintain patient files according to protocol:
- Review and interpret clinical policies.
- Coordinate and maintain supplies and medication.
- Assists clinical staff with control of communicable diseases.
- Maintain documentation according to the agency Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.
- Follow all confidentiality and HIPAA guidelines.
Provide education programs for community outreach:
- Conduct health prevention and promotion activities.
- Conduct community outreach activities, efforts and participate in outreach events.
- Determine community needs based on foundational public health services model.
- Implement public health programs for the community.
Conducts quality assurance activities, including:
- case investigations using advanced nursing or epidemiological principles.
- on-site inspections following the Jefferson County Health Department on-site inspection checklist.
- on-site monitoring to review performance or assess training effectiveness/needs.
- develop and implement tools to track performance effectiveness and process efficacy.
- collect and interpret data to assess:
- program success.
- performance
- training effectiveness
- grant adherence.
- contract monitoring as required for contract deliverables.
Effectively represents Jefferson County Health Department:
- Serves as liaison with private and public agencies on a regional level
- Provides education, orientation, and training to internal staff, other agencies, providers, and consumers.
- Facilitates or participates in state and regional coalitions for public health issues.
- Share insights with and make recommendations for programming as appropriate to Jefferson
- County leadership
- Identifies opportunities for Jefferson County
Grant writing and monitoring.
- Identify grants applicable to the strategic priorities of the agency.
- Outline the solution(s) the grant will solve and how grant funds will be used.
- Present to leadership for approval and feedback.
- Submit the grant to leadership for review before submission.
- Update leadership when grant decisions are made.
- Implement processes for monitoring grant implementation and results for reporting purposes (for the grant issuing agency).
- Monitor grant budgets and submit requisitions for timely payment.
Provides effective supervision of Nursing staff:
- Provide education, orientation, and training to department staff to ensure staff success, other agencies, providers, and consumers.
- Ensure compliance with standing orders by all clinical staff.
- Conduct regularly scheduled team meetings, to discuss program goals, and plan for and review programs.
- Contribute to staff effectiveness:
- Establish staff and program goals.
- Complete and conduct performance reviews.
- Conduct regular employee check-in meetings.
- Approve timecards and time off requests to ensure timely payroll processing.
Additional reporting and other duties as needed.
Requirements
Qualifications & Education Requirements:
- A Bachelor of Science (BSN) in Nursing from a nationally accredited college or university is required
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) is preferred.
- Valid, unrestricted Missouri Registered Nurse License.
- 2 years of private practice, community health, or public health experience is required.
- Valid driver's license.
- CPR Certification.
- Bilingual is a plus but not required
Foundational Public Health Services:
Ability to follow the Missouri Foundational Public Health Services model’s capabilities and areas of expertise as necessary for this position.
Continuing Education:
Although not mandatory, completing continuing education coursework is encouraged to maintain currency in the discipline. Additionally, emergency response training courses must be completed within established time frames, as identified by ordinance, statute, or administration. Annually, JCHD administration will require various coursework completions, not specific to any discipline, that is deemed beneficial to the organization as a whole.
Work Conditions:
This position entails work that may be required at multiple locations, involving minimal lifting/carrying. Individuals should be prepared to work in reasonable adverse weather conditions such as snow, rain, or heat. All staff at JCHD are designated as first responders during public health emergencies.
Additional Notes:
All JCHD employees are considered First Responders in a Disaster Response Situation. All employees must report for duty at the Director's request during a public health emergency.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other Health Department-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
