Public Health Nurse (TJX11) - WAGE

Title: Public Health Nurse (TJX11) - WAGE

State Role Title: Registered Nurse I

Hiring Range: $34.57/hr. - $39.59/hr.

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location: BLUE RIDGE HQ

Agency Website: www.vdh.virginia.gov/blueridge

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Are you interested in a part time (29 hours/week) position that emphasizes wellness across the lifespan for members of your community? Do you enjoy a job with lots of variety, where you will care for individuals, children and families all on the same day? Blue Ridge Health is the place for you! The Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD) serves the people in the following counties: Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, and the City of Charlottesville.

We are in need of a new Public Health Nurse (PHN) based in our Charlottesville/Albemarle Health Department. Our ideal candidate would be a practicing nurse with public or community health experience. This position is highly mobile, where you will work throughout all district clinics providing immunization, tuberculosis screening and management, communicable disease investigation, Newcomer Health assessments, contraception and sexual health services to our community. This PHN role also conducts in home screenings for adults and children to determine eligibility for Medicaid long term services, in addition to providing clinic-based childhood school and sports physicals. If you are an energetic team player who would like a regular schedule and a caring, dynamic work environment this is the job for you!

VDH requires all Health-Care Personnel (HCP) to provide documentation of immunization or evidence of immunity to the following: hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella; a one-time dose of tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine regardless of the interval since the last dose of tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine was administered (Td or Tdap boosters shall be received every 10 years); and the current year's seasonal influenza vaccination.

Wage employees are subject to the following conditions of employment:
• Wage employees serve at the will and pleasure of the appointing authority.
• Continuing employment is based on available funding and business need.
• Wage employees are not covered by the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act. Therefore, they are not eligible for benefits which are provided to salaried employees, such as leave credits, holiday pay, insurance, access to the grievance procedure, etc.
• Wage employees are paid only for the hours they actually work.
• Virginia state law currently requires that agencies not permit wage employees to work in excess of 29 hours per week on average over the course of a year. Wage employees may not work for VDH beyond 1,500 hours during the period of May 1 – April 30 of the following year (the Standard Measurement Period).
• Once a wage employee works the maximum of 1,500 hours during the Standard Measurement Period, the employee may be rehired as a wage employee of VDH only after the next Standard Measurement Period has begun.
• Wage employees are eligible to apply for all classified positions for which recruitment has been initiated, including those limited to State Employees Only.
• If a wage employee becomes employed in a classified position, he/she will be eligible to purchase retirement credit for the time worked as a wage employee.
• Continuing employment is based on available funding and business need.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires licensure as an RN in the state of Virginia.
• Certified in BLS/CPR.
• Experience and ability to function independently in the home/clinic/community/school settings.
• Exercises sound nursing judgment.
• Experience and ability to enter, review, and analyze data.
• Experience and knowledge of nursing process, health maintenance, disease processes, and case management.
• Work effectively as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team.
• Knowledge and experience in use of computers and computer applications (including Microsoft Office and Google Mail applications).
• Experience and ability to work with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• May travel and some weekend and/or evening hours may be required.
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