This position serves as a Nurse (Community Health) located in the Community Health Program at the Wellpinit Service Unit. This position reports to the Clinical Director or designee.

Duties

Develops or participates in the development of comprehensive community health nursing plans related to such services as: Communicable Disease Control, Maternal & Child Health (MCH), Adult Health, Acute and Chronic Disease, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Special Children's Services, and Case Management. Carries out community health plans by utilizing the case management approach (assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation) incorporating the nursing process model and the management model. Carries out action plan through home visits, office visits, school visits, outreach clinic, and group education. Serves as a resource person to the Clinical Director in program planning and evaluation utilizing information identified through conducting ongoing evaluation of Public Health Nursing services for the assigned service delivery area. Coordinates and participates in patient care conferences with medical, educational, and social service resources for the purpose of providing integrated health care to individuals, families, and communities.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Employees currently assigned to positions in this occupational series as of September 2017 will be considered to have met the basic requirements for the position occupied. BASIC REQUIREMENT(S): Education: A graduate or higher-level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required. this education must have been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education, or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. Degree from Foreign Nursing School: Official certification from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools is required for individuals who graduated from foreign nursing schools. Licensure: For all grade levels and positions, applicants must have passed the National Council Licensure Examination. In addition, they must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. Experience: The work experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. At the GS-9 and above grade level, many positions may require experience in a specialty area of nursing. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to the above requirements, applicants must meet one of the following requirements: Successful completion of a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from a professional nursing educational program or related medical science field; OR At least one full year of professional nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-9 grade level) and possession of a diploma, associate degree, bachelor's degree, or master's degree from a professional nursing educational program. Examples of professional nursing experience for the GS-11 include: Ability to assess population-based interventions that focus on collections of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristic in common. Collaborating with other health care teams, professions and organizations to establish programs that focuses on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Practice may have been directed at individuals, families, communities and system in order to change knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, policies and laws. Services have been provided throughout the community in multiple sites to include homes, offices, schools and community sites. Time In Grade Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP). You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This position has an education requirement. You are strongly encouraged to submit a copy of your transcripts or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed, and grades. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required from all selectees prior to receiving an official offer.

Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education may be credited. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation.

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Wellpinit Service Unit PO BOX 357 Wellpinit, WA 99040 US
• Name: Melanie May
• Phone: 503-414-7736
• Email: [email protected]