Public Health Nurse (Behavioral Health)

Duties

Job Purpose
Under general supervision, plans, coordinates, and provides professional behavioral health nursing services to individuals, families, and groups in the home, community, and health centers.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide wound care consultations to new and existing participants in OADPOP or those referred from other departments and agencies.
• Work with and assist new and existing participants in the OADPOP at various health centers in BCDH, including DGC, Dundalk, Eastern Family Resource Center.
• Perform community outreach at Essex Library and other locations in Baltimore County as requested, promoting the OADPOP and its services. 
• Provide blood pressure monitoring and blood glucose monitoring during field outreach.
• Maintain inventory record of Naloxone at DGC; notify supervisor when an order needs to be placed. 
• Maintain daily temperature logs of Naloxone at DGC. 
• Send Naloxone temperature logs at the end of each month to supervisor.
• Assemble Naloxone kits for distribution during Naloxone training as well as to OADPOP participants. 
• Maintain inventory of supplies at DGC. 
• Monitor and discard expired supplies.
• Obtain improved primary medical outcomes/specialty care; reduce disease transmission; and connect to community resources that promote health stability.
• Perform backpack model outreach throughout the County, including: educating and supplying participants with OADPOP services, conducting HIV and hepatitis C testing with direct linkage to care, and Naloxone training in the field.

Examples of Other Duties
Performs other related duties as required.

NOTE: The duties and responsibilities listed above are for the purpose of determining a common set of minimum qualifications for all positions in this class. They may not include all of the essential job functions of each position in the class. Each position may not be required to perform all of the essential job functions listed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
OR 
Graduation from an accredited diploma school of nursing:
Plus
At least one-year of professional nursing experience.
Additional qualifying education may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
OR
Graduation from an accredited college or university with an associate in arts degree in nursing;
Plus 
At least two years' professional nursing experience.
Additional qualifying education may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Licenses and Certificates
Possession of a valid license to practice as a professional registered nurse, issued by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses, is required at the time of appointment. Possession of a valid driver's license equivalent to a noncommercial, class C Maryland driver's license is required at the time of appointment.

Proof of Licenses, Certifications and Education
Applicants are required to submit proof of education beyond high school to meet the required and preferred qualifications of the position. Diplomas or transcripts must show the applicant's major field of study. Copies and unofficial transcripts are acceptable. Proof of license(s) certifications, and/or education must be submitted with each application.

Proof of Degree Equivalency
Applicants who have obtained a degree from outside the United States of America are required to submit degree equivalence documentation from World Education Services, Inc. (www.WES.org)

Mail or deliver documents to:
ATTN:  Public Health Nurse (Behavioral Health)
Office of Human Resources
Baltimore County Government
308 Allegheny Ave.
Towson, MD 21204

You must attach your transcript(s)/degree(s) and license(s)/certification(s) to your application. Unofficial copies are acceptable.

EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
Qualified applicants will be assigned a rating based on an evaluation of their training and experience as submitted on their application and supplemental questionnaire.  Applicants are advised to state the dates, duties and responsibilities of past and present experience clearly and completely for evaluation purposes.