Paralegal/Legal Assistant 1

Who We Are The Ohio Board of Nursing (OBN) regulates more than 300,000 licenses and certificates. OBN licenses and regulates Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Advanced Practice Nurses (APRNs), Dialysis Technicians (DTs), Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Medication Aides (MA-Cs). OBN's top priorities are to efficiently license the nursing workforce and remove unsafe practitioners from practice in a timely manner to protect Ohio patients. Public protection is critical, as nursing touches virtually every citizen of Ohio. The OBN's vision is to be a leader through innovative and efficient health care regulation positively impacting the wellbeing of every Ohioan. Our mission is to actively safeguard the public through equitable regulation of nursing and other health care professions. Our goal is to verify that individuals meet the statutory and regulatory requirements to enter or remain in practice in Ohio's health care workforce through a system designed to license and certify qualified applicants as quickly as possible. Our top priorities are to efficiently license and certify Ohio's nurses and other health care professionals , and to promptly remove unsafe practitioners from practice in order to safeguard patients. Protecting the public is essential , as nursing and healthcare services impact nearly every resident of the State. What You'll Do The Ohio Board of Nursing is seeking a qualified candidate for our available Paralegal/Legal 1 position to assist in the Compliance Unit. This position will work under the direction/supervision of a Supervising Attorney and will perform the following job duties: * Assists staff attorneys in analyzing identifying records to support notice of opportunity for hearing in administrative licensure disciplinary cases, in which the licensee has not timely requested a hearing * Marks records as exhibits * Prepares legal affidavits for signature redactions in no hearing request case records * Drafts legal documents (e.g., consent agreements, surrenders, notices of opportunity for hearing) for review by attorneys * Reviews subpoena requests filed by parties in administrative hearings conducted under Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Chapter 119 * Prepares subpoenas to be issued by agency in response to the requests coordinates mileage, witness sheriff return of service fees * Identifies any legal issues related to subpoena requests drafts legal memorandum summarizing issues for attorney review * Testifies at administrative hearings (e.g., identifies authenticates documents) * Maintains knowledge of other Compliance Unit tasks to be performed as needed, including, but not limited to: electronic filing with common pleas court of agency records in appeals cases; public records request response; publication of legal notices in newspaper according to ORC Chapter 119; processing pleadings other filings in administrative hearing cases * Requests records from other parties, State Agencies, Boards Commissions Additional Information Successful candidate must pass a background check.