Public Health Nurse (Senior)

THE POSITION The Public Health Nurse (Senior) promotes community health maintenance and provides specialized support, service, and education to facilitate the public health nursing service; supervises a group in the delivery of services in an assigned health program working with clients of multi‑cultural, high risk, disabled, elderly and other special needs groups; supervises the performance of specialized services within the program as assigned. The Public Health Nurse (Senior) is responsible for the full scope of public health nursing activities at the advanced professional level, which include supervising nursing services for an assigned public health program and performing special assignments requiring more sophisticated health assessment and evaluation techniques. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Experience: Five (5) years public health and clinical nursing experience that demonstrates possession of and competency in requisite knowledge and abilities. Education: A Bachelor’s degree is required in Nursing from a nursing school accredited by the National League for Nursing or equivalent. LICENSING, CERTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS Possession of valid Registered Nurse license issued by the California State Board of Registered Nursing and certification in Public Health Nursing. Possession of a current CPR certificate. Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid Class C California driver’s license (may be required). VETERANS PREFERENCE POINTS To be eligible, applicant must have served at least 181 consecutive days of active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States and have received either an honorable discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions. A copy of the DD214 must be received in the Human Resources Department by the application review deadline. Applicants who have a service connected disability must also submit a recent award letter from the VA stating they are receiving disability benefits for service connected reasons. Veteran applicants for initial County employment with an honorable or general under conditions discharge shall receive five (5) points added to their combined score. Disabled veterans rated at not less than 30% disability shall have ten (10) points added to their combined score. Veteran’s preference points will only be added to passing scores in competitive open examinations. EEO STATEMENT EOE/AA #J-18808-Ljbffr