Public Health Nurse

Job Posting End Date:

07-31-2025

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

POSITION SUMMARY The public health nurse promotes health and disease prevention through providing a variety of individual, family, and community-based health programs. This position will work in the family health program area. The work is performed under the direction of the director of family health & communicable disease. The position requires primarily weekday hours with some evening and weekend work. Frequent in-state traveling and occasional out-of-state traveling for education is required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or an advanced degree in nursing from an approved college/university.
• License to practice nursing in Wisconsin.
• CPR certification needed. If candidate does not possess at time of application, it will need to be attained within first three months of employment.
• Driver's license and a driving record that meets County standards; OR ability to obtain reliable transportation as needed.

Preferred:

• Experience with women who are pregnant, postpartum, and/or young children and their families on an inpatient, outpatient, or community setting.
• Experience with vulnerable populations professionally or as a volunteer.
• Previous public health experience.
• Bilingual.

PUBLIC HEALTH COMPENTENCIES REQUIRED

• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills

• Describes factors that affect the health of a community.

• Collects quantitative and qualitative data.

• Manages quantitative and qualitative data.

• Assesses community health status.

• Policy Development and Program Planning Skills

• Implements policies, programs, and services.

• Improves policies, programs, services, and organizational performance.

• Influences policies, programs, and services external to the organization.

• Communication Skills

• Determines communication strategies.

• Communicates with internal and external audiences.

• Responds to information, misinformation, and disinformation.

• Facilitates communication among individuals, groups, and organizations.

• Health Equity Skills

• Applies principles of ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

• Engages in continuous self-reflection about one's biases.

• Recognizes the diversity of individuals and populations.

• Contributes to achieving and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and competent public health workforce.

• Advocates for health equity and social and environmental justice.

• Community Partnership Skills

• Establishes relationships to improve community health and resilience.

• Collaborates with community members and organizations.

• Public Health Sciences Skills

• Applies public health sciences in delivering the 10 Essential Public Health Services.

• Uses evidence in developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving policies, programs, and services.

• Management and Finance Skills

• Manages human resources.

• Engages in professional development.

• Applies critical thinking in decision making.

• Facilitates collaboration among individuals, groups, and organizations.

• Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates opportunities to achieve cross-sector alignment.

• Creates opportunities for creativity and innovation.

• Responds to emerging needs.

• Manages organizational change.

• Engages politicians, policymakers, and the public to support public health infrastructure.

NORMAL DUTIES

• Utilizes programmatic, community, state, and national data to support community coalition work, quality improvement and for problem solving with individuals, facilities, and communities.
• Actively contributes to quality improvement activities by proposing ideas for improvement, creating solutions, and actively participating in implementation and evaluation.
• Strategically outreaches to community agencies to partner around services and referrals.
• Collaborates with community partners to improve health in the community.
• Conducts case management of pregnant women, children and families, refugees/immigrants, and individuals with infectious diseases requiring treatment by the health department.
• Prepares a plan of care with client and provides interventions as outlined in policies and procedures.
• Responds to reportable communicable diseases as defined by state statues. This may involve investigation, contact tracing, teaching, and collaboration with medical providers.
• Provides consultation to businesses, long term care facilities, daycares, and other congregate settings to prevent disease transmission in an outbreak.
• Participates in public health preparedness activities and assumes assigned role within the department's Incident Command Structure.
• Works in a variety of settings that may include the office, client homes, and the Marathon County jail.
• Documents all public health interventions using established systems in a timely manner.
• Develops data focused policies, documents, educational handouts or social media postings to share reputable information with the community.
• Establishes professional development goals that are supportive of broader County goals.
• Participates in continuing education activities to update skills and knowledge.
• Promotes best practices within the organization by bringing forth new knowledge from current research, conferences, and expert consultation to update standards of care.
• Actively contributes to a positive organizational culture.
• Performs related work as required.

EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED

• Nurse-Family Partnership:
• Meets with clients throughout Marathon County to provide support and advocacy throughout pregnancy and early years of motherhood.
• Educates clients (parenting skills, taking care of baby, life skills, relationships, breastfeeding).
• Collaborates with health care providers and community partners to ensure a healthy pregnancy and baby.
• Conducts nursing assessments and complete charting.
• For a glimpse into the role, watch: Nurse-Family Partnership Nurses: Changing Lives, Every Day - YouTube.

Physical Requirements

Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment such as multi-line phone, computer, laptop, scanner, printer, calculator, copy machine, fax and other office machines; audio visual equipment; environmental health monitoring equipment; or related materials used in performing essential functions.

Requires the ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet, and limbs in performing coordinated movements requiring moderate skill such as data entry and/or typing.

Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling of objects weighing five to ten pounds. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a workstation or keyboard.

Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, and textures associated with job-related objects, materials, and tasks.

Special Accommodations:

Marathon County will make arrangements to furnish appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary and reasonable to afford an individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in the recruitment process. Please notify the Employee Resources Department office or phone (715) 261-1451 to request special accommodations prior to the application deadline.

Notice to Applicants:

Wisconsin Statutes, Sections 19.36 (7), 64.09 (5), and 64.11 (7) require public employers to treat the following items as a public record: Each applicant's application, records, recommendations, and qualifications except as provided in Section 19.36 (7), Wis. Stats. that allows the identity of an applicant to remain confidential if the applicant requests in writing that the County not provide access to this information. If you choose not to have this information become a public record, you must make such a request in writing to the Employee Resources Department. If you become a finalist for the position, your identity may be disclosed as required by law