Public Health Nurse III (Family/Community/School Health)

Salary\: $63,700 - $93,886

Position Grade\: 16G

Department\: Health

Job Type Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1440

Location\: St. Louis, MO

It is the responsibility of the Public Health Nurse III (PHNIII) to effectively manage and improve programs that provide clinical services in the Bureau of Family, Community, and School Health (FCSH). Their time will be dedicated specifically to support FSCH clinicians in the event they are out of the office, and with the program deliverables that require a medical license. Program areas of responsibility for the PHNIII include but are not limited to\: School Health; Lead Safe; Asthma Prevention; Childhood Obesity; Smoking Cessation; Cardiovascular Health; and Healthy Homes. This multitalented individual will also help address additional community needs and foster better working relationships with local clinicians at schools, community organizations, federally qualified health centers, and hospitals. This person would also aid in recruiting future DOH nurses by establishing and maintaining partnerships with local nursing colleges. Finally, FCSH PHNIII will help create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact our programs through alliances we have with community partners. This position will utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Directly supervise the staff of the School Health Program.

● Partner and network with community organizations that provide services for City of St. Louis residents.

● Help develop and lead coalitions focused on improving the overall success of each program

● Facilitate health educational training to the general public.

● Make relevant referrals for residents regarding the programs’ areas of responsibility.

● Manage services and resources for programs.

● Assist with documentation and data collection.

● Participate in community outreach and events.

● Conduct inspections and follow-up visits as needed.

● Identify and seek new opportunities to educate and reach targeted populations (i.e., children, parents, pregnant women, minorities, those with limited English proficiency).

● Participate in local, regional, and state-wide meetings.

● Assist in completing and reporting quality improvements.

● Conduct appropriate periodic follow-up with families receiving lead, asthma, smoking cessation, and other health services.

● Maintain client records and information in appropriate databases and paper files.

● Assist in special projects development.

● Perform all other duties as assigned by chain of command.

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 discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train others. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

● 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 a computer, adding machine, syringe, stethoscope 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 time sheets, patient records, lab reports, policy manuals and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. 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\: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift, carry, push and pull objects and materials of moderate weight, twelve (12) to twenty (20) pounds, such as vaccines and ice packs. Tasks involve the ability to exert moderate but not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling and crouching, such as administering vaccinations to children.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as determining if polio vaccine has expired or listening to a client’s heart.