Public Health Nurse - Communicable Disease

Job Posting End Date:

10-09-2025

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 works with the communicable disease team. 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 rare out-of-state traveling for education is required.

Examples of Work Performed:

The following duties are typical of this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required or assigned.

Conducts disease case investigations.

Educates individuals and groups on health and wellness.

Provides immunizations, screening, testing and other health services. Responds to urgent public health matters.

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 the candidate does not possess it at the time of application, it will need to be attained within the first three months of employment.

• Driver's license and a driving record that meets County standards.

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.

• Experience responding to or treating communicable diseases.

• Previous public health experience.

• Bilingual.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

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.

Public Health Competencies 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