Public Health Nurse II (Family, Community, and School Health)

Salary\: $57,226 - $82,342

Position Grade\: 211G

Department\: Health

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1754

Location\: St. Louis, MO

This position is assigned to the School and Community Health Services Program and provides professional nursing services to students, families, and staff of parochial private, and other non-public schools located in St. Louis City in order to facilitate the educational process by modifying or removing the health-related barriers to learning and to screening, education, and referral services to licensed child care facilities and the St. Louis City community-at-large; and provides other health promotion activities. This position requires reliable transportation for work-related activities and occasional work after normal business hours and during weekends for health events, trainings, and conferences. Work involves some evening and weekend assignments and requires the use of a personal vehicle.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Provides direct client care services, including age-appropriate health screenings, such as vision, hearing, lead testing, and other health screenings and assessments.

● Provides consultation and training to school staff and childcare providers on acute and chronic illness prevention and management, and injury care in these settings.

● Provides guidance and instruction to the Community Health Aide(s) assigned to the School Health Program, reviews their work, and provides feedback.

● Assesses the immunization status of children enrolled in schools and licensed childcare facilities and communicates with parents, school principals, and directors concerning students and/or children who lack required immunizations.

● Maintains familiarity with childhood illnesses and conditions and services available to school-aged children and adolescents.

● Prepares and presents in-service educational presentations to schools assigned and the community at large.

● Makes appropriate health referrals for students, parents, schools and child care staff.

● Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

● Assists with Bureau and program staff in generating and compiling monthly and quarterly reports.

● Assists in training and orienting new staff members, nursing students, and other allied health professionals assigned to the School Health Program.

● Attends departmental meetings, in-services, trainings, and other events warranted by the school community.

● Performs emergency response functions as necessary for public health emergencies.

● Performs all other duties as assigned and approved by the direct supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires working knowledge of MS Office computer applications (Word, Excel, PPT) and Google computer applications (Drive, Sheets, Docs). Requires working knowledge of Electronic Health Records.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to understand and explain the application of policies, procedures, and standards to specific situations. Requires the ability to provide first-level professional medical administration and registered nursing care. Requires the ability to use language tools to communicate effectively with non-English speaking patients.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery, and tools such as motor vehicle, computer terminal, photocopier, fax machine, calculator and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information such as public health statistical reports, lab reports, patient records, time sheets, personnel policies, attendance records, work schedules, activity reports, public health manuals, Physician’s Desk Reference, nursing standards/manuals, disease control manuals, ordinances, statutes, regulations, procedures, guidelines, and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate fractions, percentage, and decimals; interpret and develop descriptive statistical reports.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness, and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as toxic/poisonous agents, potential violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift objects such as files and medical supplies weighing up to twenty (20) pounds. Requires the ability to stoop, bend, and twist to perform phlebotomy and TB skin tests and stand to examine patients.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes to clearly distinguish objects and sounds, odors, and textures to perform patient assessments and perform TB skin tests.