Job Posting End Date: 11-14-2024
Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
POSITION SUMMARY: This full-time employee manages the operations of the communicable disease team and coverage of the family health team in collaboration with contracted clinical support for program. The employee will focus on ensuring excellence of service, including policy and procedure review and development, quality improvement activities, outcome measurement, and managing daily operations. Supervision, coaching, and developing of staff is a key function of this position. Work is performed under the direction of the director of family health and communicable disease.
QUALIFICATIONS: - Minimum of a bachelor's degree from an approved college/university in nursing, and 2 years full-time equivalent experience in a community health, public health, or health care setting, which included management responsibilities; OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
- License to practice nursing in Wisconsin.
- Driver's license and a driving record that meets County standards; OR ability to obtain reliable transportation.
PUBLIC HEALTH COMPENTENCIES 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.
- Uses quantitative and qualitative data.
- Assesses community health status.
- Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
- Develops policies, programs, and services.
- Implements policies, programs, and services.
- Evaluates policies, programs, services, and organizational performance.
- Improves policies, programs, services, and organizational performance.
- Influences policies, programs, and services external to the organization.
- Engages in organizational strategic planning.
- Communication Skills
- Determines communication strategies.
- Communicates with internal and external audiences.
- Responds to information, misinformation, and disinformation.
- Facilitates communication among individuals, groups, and organizations.
- Health Equity Skills
- Applies principles of ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
- Engages in continuous self-reflection about one's biases.
- Recognizes the diversity of individuals and populations.
- Implements organizational policies, programs, and services to achieve health equity and social and environmental justice.
- Contributes to achieving and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and competent public health workforce.
- Advocates for health equity and social and environmental justice.
- Community Partnership Skills
- Describes conditions, systems, and policies affecting community health and resilience.
- Establishes relationships to improve community health and resilience.
- Maintains relationships that improve community health and resilience.
- Collaborates with community members and organizations.
- Shares power and ownership with community members and others.
- Public Health Sciences Skills
- Applies public health sciences in delivering the 10 Essential Public Health Services.
- Uses evidence in developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving policies, programs, and services.
- Management and Finance Skills
- Manages human resources.
- Engages in professional development.
- Secures financial resources.
- Implements organizational policies, programs, and services to achieve diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
- Manages programs and services.
- Engages in contingency planning.
- Applies critical thinking in decision making.
- Engages individuals and teams to achieve program and organizational goals.
- Facilitates collaboration among individuals, groups, and organizations.
- Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
- Creates opportunities to achieve cross-sector alignment.
- Creates opportunities for creativity and innovation.
- Responds to emerging needs.
- Manages organizational change.
- Engages politicians, policymakers, and the public to support public health infrastructure.
- Advocates for public health.
NORMAL JOB DUTIES: - Leads employees using a results-focused performance management system that provides a framework to encourage employee contributions and includes goal setting, coaching, feedback, and professional development planning.
- Contributes decisive leadership and decision-making to the management, communicable disease, and family health teams.
- Surveillance of reportable communicable diseases and assures appropriate follow up by team.
- Provides consultation to businesses, long term care facilities, daycares, and other congregate settings to prevent disease transmission in an outbreak.
- Collaborates with health care providers, including hospital infection control, regarding communicable disease investigations and assuring appropriate treatment.
- Implements program plans of work in collaboration with team and community partners.
- Carries out outcome measurement activities including, but not limited to, researching best practices, creating and running reports, and monitoring program outcomes.
- Reports on grant deliverables under the direction of the health officer or director of family health and communicable disease.
- Develops and reviews policies, procedures for programs and services. Assists staff in reviewing, researching, and updating program policies and procedures.
- Coordinates and oversees quality improvement activities.
- Communicates and coordinates with director of family health and communicable disease, health officer, and other department leadership to assure program coverage and staff support, including providing coverage and oversight to family health team as needed.
- Provides team and department coverage on evenings, weekends and holidays as needed for public health events and other program related activities.
- Participates in public health preparedness activities and assumes assigned role within the department's Incident Command Structure.
- Participation in emergency response to communicable disease or the county's public health emergency response including, but not limited to, pandemic response, outbreak response, and other activities as defined and outlined in the county's Public Health Preparedness Plan.
- Participates in management on-call.
- Response to a public health emergency or urgent public health matter and on-call response may occur during nights, weekends, and during time not normally designated as office hours. While infrequent, participation is mandatory.
- Understands and actively supports the County's and department's mission, core values, strategic plan, and priorities.
- Performs related work as required and as licensed.
EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED: - Oversees the daily operations of the communicable disease team and as needed, the family health team, including staff coaching and development.
- Conducts disease surveillance and assigns case investigations; provides coaching and education on diseases and disease investigation.
- Coordinates team response to outbreaks; responds to urgent public health matters.
- Coordinates outreach programs (immunization clinics, STI clinics).
COMPENSATION: $73,923.20 per year + Marathon County benefits:
Special Accommodations: Marathon County will make arrangements to furnish appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary and reasonable to afford an individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in the recruitment process. Please notify the Employee Resources Department office or phone (715) ###-#### to request special accommodations prior to the application deadline.
Notice to Applicants: Wisconsin Statutes, Sections 19.36 (7), 64.09 (5), and 64.11 (7) require public employers to treat the following items as a public record: Each applicant's application, records, recommendations, and qualifications except as provided in Section 19.36 (7), Wis. Stats. that allows the identity of an applicant to remain confidential if the applicant requests in writing that the County not provide access to this information. If you choose not to have this information become a public record, you must make such a request in writing to the Employee Resources Department. If you become a finalist for the position, your identity may be disclosed as required by law