Public Health Nurse

JOB
Public Health NurseNurse Family Partnership Our Role:Do you want to do meaningful work that has a real impact in our community? Please come join our team-oriented, family-friendly organization of over 130 talented professionals. We work hard every day to keep Kitsap County safe and healthy.The Position: Within state and agency policies, under the direction of the Public Health Nurse Supervisor, the incumbent is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing service to women and their families eligible for participation in the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program. The incumbent is responsible for maintaining the highest standards in clinical nursing practice and fidelity to the NFP model, and to policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of NFP and of the agency. The incumbent provides comprehensive nursing services to young families residing in Kitsap County, including Hispanic clients, utilizing advanced decision-making strategies such as the nursing process, combining judgment, action, responsibility, and accountability. Duties involve extensive interaction with socio-economic and culturally diverse populations of clients, community-based agencies, medical personnel, and District staff to provide public health nursing services to clients and communities. Additionally, the incumbent will be trained to perform nursing services in the District's clinic to include immunizations and other associated nursing duties to strengthen capacity and provide cross-coverage. The incumbent may participate in a regular clinical assignment rotation to keep current.Benefits: The District offers a comprehensive health benefit plan which includes medical, dental, and life coverage, generous paid time off, and twelve paid holidays per year. Participation in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), a defined benefit retirement plan managed by the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems, is also included.Other: This position requires in-person interactions with team members, clients and their families, and medically vulnerable members of the public. Per District policy, public health professionals are required to complete one of the recommended COVID-19 vaccination series (including the 2-week post vaccine waiting period) before delivering in-person visits. As public health professionals, we must protect our clients, our communities, and ourselves from the risks associated with the spread of COVID-19. It is the District's expectation that all employees who provide in-person services, both internally and externally, have completed their vaccination series to safely offer excellent public services to the community we serve.We are looking for the successful candidate who will commit to this work for at least three years due to the trainings required in this role. NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP® IS A COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM THAT TRULY CHANGES LIVES - FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Provides home visits to women and their families eligible for the NFP Program.Maintains fidelity to the NFP model of home visitation.Supports policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of NFP and of the District.Promotes public awareness of NFP.Supports program development, assists in grant oversite including reporting and meets grant deliverables as assigned. Develops and maintains community relationships to support client referrals.Completes all required NFP education.Successfully maintains reliability with the use of the Dyadic Assessment of Naturalistic Caregiver-child Experiences (DANCE) assessment tool.Develops therapeutic relationships with women and their families in a home visiting environment.Performs home visiting in accordance with the NFP model and guidelines.Assesses physical, emotional, social, and environmental needs of women and their families as they relate to the NFP domains.Assists women and their families in establishing goals and outcomes. Provides education, support, and referral resources in assisting women and their families in attaining their targeted goals. Consults and collaborates with other professionals involved in providing services to women and families.Actively engages in skill building to meet all NFP Nurse Home Visitor competency requirements.Meets with NFP Nurse Supervisor weekly for clinical supervision.Utilizes reflective practice in supervisory sessions.Schedules joint home visits with NFP Nurse Supervisor every four months.Attends and participates in bi-weekly case conferences and staff meetings.Provides information to support staff for timely and accurate data input to the NFP ETO database.Cooperates in review and analysis of the ETO reports for achievements and areas for improvement.Participates in quality improvement efforts.Maintains confidentiality.Documents nursing care using the Omaha System standardized documentation language and the CHAMP electronic health record, Nightingale Notes, within 48 hours of the nursing visit.Understands, supports, and coaches others in the NFP vision, mission, and model. Represents the NFP vision, mission, and model in actions and verbally to both internal and external customers and colleagues.Supports program development and planning for pregnant women, children, and families in collaboration with the Parent Child Health Team, other district employees, community partners and families.Assists in creating a positive work environment that promotes productivity, mentoring, teamwork, and cooperation.Supports others in accomplishing goals and objectives.Elicits and considers differing viewpoints when analyzing issues.Recognizes accomplishments of team members.Maintains clear, effective, open, honest communication with both internal and external customers and colleagues.Creates, maintains, and supports a safe environment for open discussion.Seeks and responds appropriately to feedback.Accurately assesses own learning needs and develops strategies to meet them. Stays informed on current health care developments to provide safe, quality nurse home visiting services.Establishes and records progress toward annual goals.Participates in and contributes to ad hoc special activities and assignments.Keeps current on and complies with HIPAA and other privacy regulations and policies, maintaining confidentiality at all times.Prepares daily logs, bills, monthly reimbursement requests and reports as needed.Attends scheduled staff meetings to keep current with procedural changes.Provides cross-coverage for all other clinical and nursing services as needed this may include communicable disease response and immunizations.Completes timely and accurate random moments to comply with contractual requirements of Medicaid Administrative Match.Accurately completes and submits electronic timecard on a weekly basis as required.Participates in quality improvement efforts.Serves as a resource person for staff. Motivates and provides mentorship to staff in providing quality and appropriate quantity of work in assigned area utilizing resources efficiently. Models and promotes team building skills among assigned staff.Works both independently and within a collaborative team-oriented environment; contributes openly, disagrees respectfully, understands the ideas of others, listens well, and works for consensus.Demonstrates cultural competency and embeds health equity into all aspects of assigned work and interactions.Models a Lean Six Sigma organizational culture that promotes the practice of respect for people, openness, trust, safety, transparency, collaborative problem solving, managing with data, in the pursuit of incremental continuous improvement and assurance.Establishes and maintains cooperative, effective working relationships with coworkers, other District employees, and the general public using principles of good customer service.Responds to public health emergencies as required by the District.Reports for scheduled work with regular, reliable, and punctual attendance updating availability in the Trello application per protocol.Performs other duties as assigned. Work Environment and Physical Demands: Work is performed both indoors in an office environment and in the field (conducting home visits, etc.). Requires the ability to communicate with others orally, face to face and by telephone.Requires the ability to use virtual platforms for meetings such as Zoom, Teams, etc. Requires manual and finger dexterity and hand-eye-arm coordination to write and to operate computers and a variety of general office equipment. Requires mobility to accomplish other desktop work, retrieve files, and to move to various District locations. Requires visual acuity to read computer screens, printed materials, and detailed information. Essential duties may involve occasional kneeling, squatting, crouching, stooping, crawling, standing, bending, climbing (to stack, store or retrieve supplies or various office equipment). May occasionally be required to work a varying schedule which may include evenings and weekends. Duties require carrying a cell phone or electronic device. Exposure to individuals from the public who are upset, angry, agitated and sometimes hostile, requiring the use of conflict management and coping skills. Frequently required to perform work in confidence and under pressure for deadlines, and to maintain professional composure and tact, patience, and courtesy at all times. The environment is dynamic and constantly changing, resulting in continually re-evaluating and shifting priorities.The incumbent is required to use the combined senses of touch, sight, smell, and hearing during on-going client assessment. Duties require the ability to read typewritten and/or handwritten orders and notes. Off-site visits require the incumbent to carry supplies and/or equipment up and down stairs as well as into and out of a vehicle on a daily basis.While performing home visits, the incumbent encounters unsanitary conditions, animals (pets) and clients and/or family members who are smoking, exposing the incumbent to second-hand smoke which may cause allergic reaction and/or illness.The incumbent is exposed to emotionally disturbing experiences. The incumbent is expected to remain calm, controlled, and professional, regardless of the situation and to demonstrate care and compassion to the client, family member and other members of the health care team.As a professional obligation, the incumbent is required to report abuse if it is encountered. Regularly the incumbent will be required the ability to lift/and or carry objects and materials up to ten pounds (taking infant scale into patient homes during a visit). Occasionally, the incumbent in this position may be required to lift/ carry objects up to twenty-five pounds. May be required to stay at or return to work during public health incidents and/or emergencies to perform duties specific to this classification or to perform other duties as requested in an assigned response position. This may require working a non-traditional work schedule or working outside normal assigned duties during the incident and/or emergency.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from a school accredited by the National League of Nursing with coursework that includes a community health component; orBachelor's degree in a related field, such as public health or health education, and at least four years of public health nursing experience, provided the candidate graduated from a school of nursing accredited by the NLN (diploma, AA or AS).Certification as a lactation specialist is a plus.Bilingual in Spanish or Guatemalan dialect is also a plus.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Possession of a valid license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Washington is required.Performance of job duties requires driving on a regular basis, a valid Washington State driver's license, the use of the incumbent's personal motor vehicle, and proof of appropriate auto insurance.Offer of employment is contingent upon receipt of a successful background check. If offered employment, a candidate must provide acceptable proof of full vaccination against COVID-19. If requesting an exemption for a medical disability or a sincerely held religious belief, a request for exemption will need to be completed and reviewed prior to completion of the hiring process. Forms will be provided during the hiring process.To view the posting and to submit the required electronic application, please visit the Careers section of our website at kitsappublichealth.org.