Itinerant Public Health Nurse 3

Job Description

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.

What you will be doing:

Do you love meeting new people? Would you like a job where you can travel across beautiful Alaska? As an Itinerant Public Health Nurse 3, you will do that! You will be responsible for delivering the full range of public health nursing services to Alaska's villages and communities using an individual, community, and systems approach. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with communities across Alaskan cities and villages to create meaningful contributions to the public's health. When not traveling, you will have the opportunity to support and work within the Matsu Public Health Center.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

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:

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Accountability

- We are committed to responsible use of human, financial, and environmental resources.

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Respect

- We provide services without discrimination or judgment.

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Human potential

- We are committed to developing each Alaskan’s potential as a healthy individual as well as fostering strong, healthy communities.

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Integrity

- We are honest and ethical in all we do.

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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 Alaska to create meaningful contributions to the public’s health. Learn and grow in the Last Frontier while making a difference where we live, work, and play. Enjoy excellent benefits, including meaningful work, generous leave accrual, and 12 paid holidays annually.

For more in-depth benefit information, please go to:

https://drb.alaska.gov/employee/

The working environment you can expect:

This position is based in Wasilla, Alaska, in the heart of the Mat-Su Valley, surrounded by the stunning Talkeetna and Chugach Mountains. The area offers year-round outdoor recreation, from hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing in the summer to skiing, snowmachining, and northern lights viewing in the winter, with easy access to uniquely Alaskan adventures and scenic wilderness. The itinerant service area includes communities throughout the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Chain, Pribilof Islands, and other rural and remote communities across Alaska. When not traveling and serving the itinerant communities, PHNs will support the mission of the Matsu public health center.

Learn and grow in the Last Frontier while making a difference where we live, work, and play.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

Self-Management:

Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Stakeholder Management:

Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort, including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative)

Flexibility:

Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with ambiguity

Special Notice

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A valid Driver's License is required at the time of appointment.

A valid Alaska Registered Nurse License will be required at the time of appointment.

Will be required to maintain CPR Certification while working.

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for

Public Health Nurse 3

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https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application

(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class.  They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency.  They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines.   A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Eligibility for licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Alaska;

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Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university or Direct Entry Master of Science (MSN) in Nursing from an accredited college or university;

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Any combination of additional education, certification, and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

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 injury prevention, and 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.

Interpersonal 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.

Partnering:

Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.

Analysis and Assessment:

Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information

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Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Advanced post-secondary education in nursing, public health, healthcare services, healthcare administration, or a closely related field that includes master’s level study in nursing and/or public health;

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Professional experience in public health, community health, international health, and/or occupational health nursing.

Special Notes:

Candidates not currently licensed by the State of Alaska, who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Alaska and requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities, may apply for vacan