Public Health Nurse ; PCN

Overview

THE RECRUITMENT PERIOD FOR THIS JOB POSTING HAS BEEN EXTENDED

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.

Welcome to the Department of Health!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!

This position is open to All Applicants.

As a Public Health Nurse 2 in the Ketchikan Public Health Center, you’ll work independently to support the health and well-being of your community. This position offers a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to:

• Conduct health assessments and develop improvement strategies
• Provide screenings, preventive care, and health education to Alaskan families
• Manage infectious disease prevention and case management, as well as so much more

This role is ideal for nurses who are passionate about public service, enjoy working with diverse populations, and want to make a meaningful impact on community health.

As a member of the Section of Public Health Nursing, you will contribute every day to the improvement of the health of Alaskans and their families. The Division of Public Health exemplifies these values:

• Accountability - We are committed to responsible use of human, financial, and environmental resources.
• Respect - We provide services without discrimination or judgment.
• Human potential - We are committed to developing each Alaskan’s potential as a healthy individual as well as fostering strong, healthy communities.
• Integrity - We are honest and ethical in all we do.
• Scientific Excellence - We are committed to adding to and contributing to the body of scientific knowledge and using the best available knowledge and data to set public health policy.

The benefits of joining our team: Become a member of an innovative team that collaborates with communities across Alaskan cities and villages to create meaningful contributions to the public’s health. Enjoy excellent benefits, flexibility, generous leave accrual, and 12 paid holidays a year.

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This position is located at the Ketchikan Public Health Center, 605 Gateway Court. Ketchikan sits in the panhandle of Southeast Alaska, 90 minutes by air from Seattle.

For more information about the city of Ketchikan, please visit these links:  and https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies:

• Public Health:
  Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and/or injury prevention, and/or detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
• Decision Making:
  Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Partnering:
  Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Inter-Personal
  
  Skills:
  
  Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Analysis and Assessment:
  Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.

• Valid Alaska Registered Nursing License is required at time of employment, per Alaska Nurse Practice Act:
  Nursing Statutes AS 08.68, Nursing Regulations 12 AAC 44
• Valid Driver’s License at time of employment is required
• CPR Certification is also required

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