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This is professional nursing work in directing one or more Public Health programs in a local health department. Employees plan, organize, and direct all activities of a large staff with complete accountability for all the administrative, supervisory, and technical components of varied and relatively complex programs. Employees must monitor the trends in the community served and adjust programs as needed. In addition, employee has responsibility for monitoring all nursing license issues, including scope of practice issues for nursing staff (regardless of licensure level), and assuring that all nursing staff have and maintain a license to practice in NC. Assures that any nursing staff who are not licensed (for example, through license lapse or delays in transferring license from another state) do not practice nursing until the license is reinstated.

Primary Purpose of Position: Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Health Director, this employee plans, organizes and directs a variety of complex personal health services and clinical support services. This employee directs the public health nursing programs of the department, as well as, health professionals in other Department programs. This employee also directs the clinical support programs in the areas of data processing, eligibility, accounts receivable, electronic medical record system, and clinical. This employee is completely accountable to the health director for all administrative supervisory, programmatic and technical components of these programs and staff performance. Employee is directly assisted by four nursing supervisors, the WIC director, Clinical Support supervisor, and laboratory manager who report directly to one of the four nursing supervisors. This employee staffs the County's Emergency Operations Center when activated and rotates on-call with other nursing supervisors and communicable disease nurses on a weekly schedule.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8 AM - 5 PM schedule. Evening and weekend work may occur with communicable disease outbreaks, Red Cross disasters, blood borne exposures, bioterrorism event, natural disaster or when necessary to meet administrative responsibilities.