School Health Operations Manager (Public Health Nurse IV)
Company: Fairfax County Government
Location: Fairfax
Posted on: May 3, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Announcement
$10,000 Signing 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.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Public Health Nurse IV to
provide strategic leadership for a vital segment of the School
Health Division. Under the direction of the Director of School
Health, this position has county-wide responsibility for overseeing
school health services related to nursing agency staffing and
contracts, population health initiatives, school-based community
partnerships, and management of the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
float pool.
This leadership role supports equitable access to skilled nursing
care for medically fragile students, facilitates health services
across schools, and advances population health programs that
promote student well-being. The Public Health Nurse IV is
responsible for supervising and mentoring a team of non-merit LPNs,
managing vendor contracts, participating in multidisciplinary
teams, and coordinating with Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)
and other stakeholders to ensure high-quality service delivery.
* This position includes a signing bonus for fully qualified new
county employees in the amount of $10,000.
Illustrative Duties
Plans, develops, and manages a comprehensive public health program
and serves as subject-matter expert for specialty areas;Sets
program priorities, assesses workload demands, coordinates
assignment of staff within a district office;Participates in
establishment of priorities for projects and develops protocols for
School Health Services;Plans public health education programs to
update public knowledge and promote service utilization;Serves on
work groups, task forces, committees, and community partnership
activities;Writes, monitors, and evaluates grants;Consults with
staff on patient health care plan and the existence and
applicability of County and community resources in meeting health
care needs;Develops, plans, participates in community development
activities;Presents programmatic reports of accomplishments,
findings, and recommendations to County stakeholders;Evaluates the
quality and efficiency of health care plans for community/site or
client groups, particularly those considered high-risk;Evaluates
effectiveness and cost efficiency of the County's health care in a
specificprogram/specialty area or district office;Studies and
analyzes data findings to identify emerging health care trends or
risk factors and their associated implications;Implements
recommendations for improving or closing gaps in service delivery,
including development of targeted or specialty
interventions;Participates in research to identify emerging
technologies that would benefit program;Formulates, monitors, and
executes budget for programmatic areas and assigned grants;Directly
supervises select group of professional staff;Ensures that
orientation and training is available and appropriate for new and
existing staff in collaboration with the School Health
Coordinator.Develops an education or learning strategy that
prioritizes staff learning needs;Identifies professional
development needs and assesses professional development
plans;Coordinates assessment efforts to identify long-term training
needs.
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 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;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 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 identify problems
and make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions orjudgments
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 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.
Employment Standards
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Graduation from a college or university accredited by the National
League for Nursing or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing
Education with a bachelor's degree in nursing; Plus five years of
post-licensure experience as a nurse in an equivalent health care
setting whose focus was primarily prevention services and community
education, including three years in a public health/community
health setting. Qualifying experience may include experience in
ambulatory care settings such as outpatient clinics that
incorporate community outreach/education as part of services or
specialty settings that incorporate teaching, community outreach,
resource referrals, etc. as part of a health care continuum; Plus
at least one year of supervisory experience.
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED:
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
The appointee to this position will be required to complete a
criminal background check, a Child Protective Services Registry
check, a driving record check, and sanction screening to the
satisfaction of the employer.
This position is emergency/essential services personnel. (Required
to report for duty during inclement weather and/or other
emergencies.)
Additional Work Schedule Requirements: May occasionally start as
early as 7:00 AM. May work evenings or weekends, as required.
Overtime (Comp time) with prior approval from supervisor.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Job is generally sedentary in nature, and requires walking,
standing, sitting (for long periods of time), and kneeling,
reaching, bending, climbing stairs; may be required to lift or
carry equipment or children up to 25 lbs. as required for the
position. Uses hands to grasp, handle, or feel. Generally, works in
an office environment yet may occasionally be required to perform
job duties outside of the typical office setting. Visual acuity is
required to read data from paper and on a computer monitor or other
electronic device; ability to operate keyboard driven equipment and
computer and use of touchscreen. Position frequently communicates
and must be able to exchange accurate information with others
verbally and in writing. Ability to drive a vehicle. All duties
performed with or without reasonable accommodations.SELECTION
PROCEDURE:Panel Interview and may include a practical exercise.The
population of Fairfax County is very diverse where 38.7% of
residents speak a language other than English at home (Spanish,
Asian/Pacific Islander, Indo-European, and others) and we encourage
candidates bilingual in English and a foreign language to apply to
this opportunity.Fairfax County Government prohibits discrimination
on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,
pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital
status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics,
political affiliation, or military status in the recruitment,
selection, and hiring of its workforce.
Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with
disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the
Americans with Disabilities Act. TTY 703-222-7314.
DHREmployment@fairfaxcounty.gov EEO/AA/TTY.#LI-LD1
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