Position: Public Health Nurse
St. Joseph County Department of Health – Nursing Unit
Opening Date: January 10, 2025
Closing Date: Until Filled
Salary: Up to $ 43.14/hour
Location: 227 W. Jefferson Blvd., South Bend, IN 46601 – (Mishawaka Office)
Status: Part Time
Job Category: PAT (Professional, Administrative, Technological)
FLSA Status: Exempt
Incumbent serves as Public Health Nurse (PHN) for the St. Joseph County Department of Health, responsible for providing health, education, and nursing care to County residents, reporting communicable diseases to the Indiana Department of Health, and ensuring compliance with established policies, practices, regulations, and professional and public health standards.
DUTIES :
Manages the care of clients using established protocols, ensuring compliance with all applicable Department policies and procedures, Indiana Department of Health standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, and all other federal and state laws relating to privacy, confidentiality, and service delivery.
Provides health care and education to County residents, including administering immunizations to infants, children and adults, lead testing, and tuberculosis testing as necessary. Provides education to prevent injury or transmission of reportable illness.
Investigates reportable communicable diseases, providing education to infected clients and their close contacts, submitting appropriate specimens to lab, completing, and filing epidemiological reports, and submitting to Indiana Department of Health. Provides case follow-up as needed.
Notifies clients with possible food borne illness, providing education, completing food history, and works with the Food Services Division on possible food borne illness cases.
Investigates, documents, and provides follow-up for complaints from the Indiana Department of Health, local health care delivery agencies, private individuals, patients, or family members regarding health care delivery within St. Joseph County.
Monitors newborns referred by Indiana Department of Health, conducting home visits, providing follow-up, ensuring completion of re-screens, and completing appropriate forms and forwarding to Indiana Department of Health.
I. JOB REQUIREMENTS :
Associate’s degree in nursing required. Bachelor’s degree with previous experience in public health nursing preferred.
Possession of required certifications and training, including valid Indiana license as Registered Nurse, and certifications in CPR, lead, Vaccines A-Z or equivalent, TB skin test administration, QuantiFERON blood draw, HIPAA, and other areas as required for public health programs and operations.
Thorough knowledge of public health laws and accepted principles and practices of public health nursing, with ability to effectively examine and screen individuals, assess needs, research professional medical resources, and provide information, treatments, assistance, and referrals as appropriate.
Ability to occasionally work extended, evening, and/or weekend hours, travel out of town for meetings and workshops, sometimes overnight, and respond to public health emergencies on a 24-hour basis.
If a certification or license is required, please be sure to attach the documents.