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$10,000 Sign-On Bonus*

The Fairfax County Health Department is a progressive public health leader serving 1.2 million residents from diverse ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds. With more than 100 years of leadership in the field, we are committed to promoting population health, protecting public health and the environment, and ensuring residents' equitable access to health services and information.

Works as part of the Health Services Division and is guides professional and paraprofessional staff across multiple service sites to ensure the overall functioning, efficiency, and effectiveness of home visiting services provided by the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program. Manages material and human resources and provides direction, guidance, and support for staff to ensure consistent delivery of NFP services. Must be able to work with minimal supervision and as a collaborative partner in a Maternal Child Health (MCH) management team. Responsibilities include coordinating referrals for a variety of home visiting services provided by PHN staff (Maternal Child Health Field, Nurse-Family Partnership, Healthy Families); monitoring and evaluating the quality and effectiveness of services provided; guiding and supervising professional and paraprofessional staff; prioritizing assignments and activities in accordance with program, agency goals and objectives; data collection, analysis, and reporting; representing the program on committees and work groups; and collaborating with colleagues and community partners to reach established goals and objectives.

• This position includes a signing bonus for fully qualified new county employees in the amount of $10,000.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Extensive knowledge of nursing theories, principles, practices, methods, processes, and procedures required to provide public health nursing care;

Knowledge of human growth and development, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, preventive medicine, epidemiology, and nutrition;

Knowledge of current practices, literature, and trends in public health nursing to include environmental, economic, psychological, social (e.g., family and group dynamics), cultural and linguistic issues or barriers impacting assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of health services to the community;

Knowledge of consultation, teaching, and supervision methods and techniques;

Knowledge of documentation, nursing diagnosis, and quality assurance;

Knowledge of medical and legal policies, guidelines, principles, practices, and standards governing public health nursing as well as nursing specialization;

Extensive knowledge of available community resources for referral and follow-up;

Knowledge of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health nursing programs;

Knowledge of budget and financial management principles and practices to include assessing costs relative to benefits of interventions and their outcomes;

Knowledge of resources planning, management, and utilization;

Knowledge of County personnel policies and practices governing the management and supervision of employees;

Knowledge of management principles, practices, and techniques to include setting program priorities, assigning projects according to ability level and workload demands;

Ability to perform complex technical nursing procedures and use medical equipment in delivering specialized services to the clients;

Ability to manage human and/or facility emergencies and perform emergency treatments related to life-threatening conditions;

Ability to interpret and apply the professional standards of nursing practice, County Health Department policies and procedures and applicable federal, state and County laws and regulations;

Ability to build and develop relationships and partnerships with individuals and entities within and outside of the County;

Ability to relate well to clients from varied backgrounds and different situations

Ability to manage or diffuse situations involving clients or County staff who may appear

difficult, hostile or distressed;

Ability to identify problems and make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions or

judgments relating to client health care;

Ability to assess the quality, appropriateness, implications, and impact of decisions or judgments made by others and identify courses of corrective action, where appropriate;

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with individuals and groups of all sizes to include delivery of informal or formal presentations;

Ability to participate in hearings or court cases, as necessary;

Ability to prepare public health communications, technical and non-technical reports, briefings, testimonies, and other written material, for dissemination to media groups and the community;

Ability to prepare written justifications for budget, personnel, or other resource requests and expenditures;

Ability to conduct systematic and objective inquiry or evaluation of public health programs and services through data collection, analysis, and interpretation, and report results;

Ability to apply or introduce technology to facilitate decision-making, enable electronic recordkeeping, and to support collaboration and foster communication across the nursing workforce and with the community;

Ability to deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations, including a fast-paced work environment, hostile, manipulative or potentially dangerous situations, complex caseloads or multiple work sites;

Ability to manage multiple programs, balancing stakeholder, staff, and client needs.

Employment Standards

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