EXECUTIVE COMM HEALTH NURSING DIR - SES - 64060077

Requisition No: 868949 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: EXECUTIVE COMM HEALTH NURSING DIR - SES - 64060077

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64060077 

Salary:  $60,428.94 - $75,536.18 

Posting Closing Date: 02/15/2026 

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Open Competitive Opportunity

Florida Department of Health

Division of Disease Control and Health Protection 

Bureau of Epidemiology 

 

 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

 

This position is under the direct supervision of the Section Administrator of the Immunization Section and will assist in managing the statewide public health immunization program. The Executive Community Health Nursing Director is a professional nursing position that exercises independent judgment in formulating or assisting in the formulation of statewide immunization policies and procedures that have significant impact on immunization standards of care and ultimately statewide immunization coverage levels.

 

Duties in this position include:

 

The individual in this position supervises staff professionals who plan and monitor the clinical immunization services, educational programs, statewide immunizations-related strategic health plan, clinical standards of care, and data collection systems of the Immunization Section. The Executive Community Health Nursing Director has overall statewide responsibility/accountability for operational activities related to immunization service delivery, program quality assurance, nursing/medical practices, control of communicable vaccine-preventable diseases, providing nursing leadership to public health nurses al the state and local level in immunization service delivery, education and training, and represents the Immunization Section with other Department of Health program offices, community agencies and health care providers. In the absence of the Section Administrator, the incumbent may have delegated authority over program operations. 

 

Assures that immunization clinical nursing care policies and procedures are reviewed and updated on a regular basis and are consistent with the law and community health nursing practice standards. Participates in general policy and program formulation and interprets nursing implications.

 

Consults with other department of Health personnel, county health departments, other state agencies, and the private medical sector on all matters relating to immunization service delivery and nursing/medical standards. Initiates and evaluates new programs with the cooperation of other administrative staff. Educate public and private providers to ensure compliance with the Standards for Pediatric & Adult Immunization Practices. Develops and provides educational programs to public and private providers on compliance with current childhood, adolescent. and adult immunization recommendations. 

 

Analyzes and plans for present and projected needs in accordance with agency objectives, community needs, and available resources. Analyzes and reports emerging problems or trends in the delivery of immunization services.

 

Oversees the recruitment. employment and assignment of personnel and recommends promotions or separations from service. Assumes accountability for the general supervision of community health nursing staff and others immediately assigned to program activities.

 

Partnerships: Coordinate program planning and implementation of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCOA) performance measures for immunizations, Health Plan Employee Information Set (HEOIS) with public and private healthcare providers. including county health departments, managed care organizations (MCOs). community/migrant health centers, and other groups, organizations and agencies, especially those that represent or serve under-immunized infant