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Requisition No: 881472 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING DIRECTOR - SES - 64051200

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64051200 

Salary:  $70,000.00 to $80,000 annually 

Posting Closing Date: 08/16/2026 

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Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

This is a professional nursing position providing public health nursing services to individuals, families, groups and the community. The incumbent in this position is responsible for the integrity and confidentiality of data sets under their control and many use DOH IT resources to visit Internet sites as needed to perform the duties of this position. The incumbent is responsible for assurance of program standards and development of goals, objectives, policies and procedures for all clinical services/programs at the Florida Department of Health in Bay County (DOH Bay). Serves as a member of the executive leadership team and, as delegated, exercises authority on behalf of the Health Officer or Administrator in their absence.

This position is responsible for nursing health services at DOH Bay, including Clinical Health Services, HIV/AIDS, Epidemiology, and School Health. The incumbent directly manages the daily operations of Clinical Health Services, including Women's Health Services, Family Planning, Immunizations, and Epidemiology, including communicable diseases and Tuberculosis. Provides administrative and programmatic oversight of HIV/AIDS, including STD and Hepatitis, and School Health, working with the respective program supervisors to monitor program effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance and to ensure services are provided in accordance with applicable public health standards, policies, procedures, and requirements.

Responsible for managing the daily operations of Clinic Health Services and Epidemiology, including planning work objectives, evaluating service delivery, assessing workload, establishing priorities, and coordinating work assignments to ensure the timely provision of services. Manages work schedules for medical, nursing, lab support staff, and Epidemiology staff to ensure appropriate staffing and coverage. Develops evaluative and operational criteria, monitors service delivery and program performance, identifies opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations. Authorizes expenditures, monitors revenue, and coordinates financial reporting and budget planning for Clinical Health Services and assigned nursing health services programs. Serves as contract manger for contracts within assigned areas of responsibility. 

Provides nursing interventions based on nursing assessments consistent with quality standards as defined by Public Health Nursing practice, theory, and research. Provides interventions such as teaching and counseling and the administration of treatments and therapies prescribed by the clinicians. Conducts communicable disease interventions in accordance with the principles and standards of nursing practice to assure safe and competent service. Acts as an advocate for the patient and family. Coordinates plans and intervenes with agency staff and support services in the health department and community agencies to assure continuity of care and expected outcomes using principles of case management. Evaluates care plans and effectiveness of interventions and adjusts each accordingly. Provides timely follow-up of critical laboratory findings. Documents assessments and interventions.

Teaches newly employed nurses advanced nursing arts and methods, evaluates and reviews new hire nurse development by observing their work in the clinic. Orients new hires to provide guidance and counseling and instructs in the specialized fields of family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, and women's health services. Instructs nonprofessional employees in a variety of professional nursing subjects. Participates in observing patients' physical and behavioral reactions to medications. Participates as a member of a multi-disciplinary team in the planning and implementation of treatment for individual patients. Works in conjunction with specialist physicians to ensure compliance with the specialized medical therapeutic plan. Communicates with Primary Care Physicians, other health professionals and agencies to ensure individuals receive coordinated approaches to care. Identifies community resources, arranges and coordinates health, educational, social, rehabilitative, and economic services for the family. Provides leadership and oversight for assigned programs, activities to ensure programs provide appropriate and timely service in accordance with public health practice standards and DOH and DOH Bay requirements. Assures high level of internal and external satisfaction with services provided by self and staff.

Continuous Quality Improvement: Participates in program evaluation through activities such as review of patient's records, identifying system problems and making recommendations that can improve patient and family service. Responsible for providing and presenting findings to staff and for the maintenance and updating of program manuals. Identifies recurrent health problems among the clinic population and provides interventions based on findings.

Skill Maintenance: Maintains skills in public health nursing with special emphasis on administration of immunizations, home visiting, disaster nursing, program follow-up and Basic Life Support (CPR).

Community Activity: Participates in community-based health screenings, fairs, occupational/school health activities and community immunizations initiatives. Provides community-based group education. Represents DOH Bay on community teams and serves on inter-agency and intra-agency committees. Often initiates heightened communication to administration, DOH Bureau of Epidemiology/TB and Refugee state leaders, and applicable community partners and agencies. Consults with the infection control departments at the area hospitals, physicians in the private sector to enhance reporting procedures and disease surveillance. Communicates with other county health departments to ensure cases are appropriately investigated and treated.

Ensures supervisors and staff receive training in Health Management System (HMS) on new updates and versions within 30 working days from the official release from the Office of Planning and Data Analysis. Ensure staff receive appropriate training and professional development as necessary to complete job duties and attend trainings as needed, allowed, and available.

Acts in conjunction with supervisors to ensure appropriate staffing at Special Needs Shelters when activated. Jointly oversees the operation of shelter.

Assists the Administrator in promoting community-wide and interagency cooperative activities in support of local public health.

All other duties as required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of applicable statutes, rules, regulations, policies and standards related to public health nursing and assigned programs
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, and methods
• Excellent communication, supervisory, organizational and training skills
• Ability to plan, organize, manage and evaluated clinical and public health programs and services
• Ability to analyze information, identify problems and implement effective solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing and establish effective working relationships with staff, leadership, healthcare providers, community partners, and the public
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize workload and exercise sound professional judgment
• Ability to effectively utilize computers, office software, and other technology necessary to perform assigned duties
• Ability to walk and stand for long periods of time, bend, climb one flight of steps, turn patients, and lift a minimum of 25 pounds.

Qualifications:

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in accordance with Florida Statute 464 or eligible to practice nursing in accordance with Florida Administrative Code 210-8.27. A master's degree from an accredited college or university in nursing, public health, or related field can substitute for one year of the required professional nursing experience.
• Incumbent must be a Registered Nurse in accordance with Chapter 464 F. S.; Chapter 64B9 F. A.C.
• Incumbent must have current CPR/BLS or receive an approved CPR/BLS course within 90 days of employment

Preferred: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in nursing or related field and three years of professional experience as a public health nurse.

Florida Department of Health Mission, Vision, and Values:

Mission:

To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.

Vision:

To be the Healthiest State in the Nation.

Values:

I nnovation: We search for creative solutions and manage resources wisely.

C ollaboration: We use teamwork to achieve common goals & solve problems.

A ccountability: We perform with integrity & respect.

R esponsiveness: We achieve our mission by serving our customers & engaging our partners.

E xcellence: We promote quality outcomes through learning & continuous performance improvement.

Where You Will Work:

Panama City, Florida

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State's total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits;
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com);

• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Tuition waivers;
• And more!

For a more complete list of benefits, including monthly costs, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

Please be advised:

Your responses to qualifying questions for this position must be verifiable by documentation provided through the electronic application process.  

This position requires a security background check and/or drug screening and participation in direct deposit. Any misrepresentations or omissions will disqualify you from employment consideration. Note: You will be required to provide your Social Security Number (SSN) in order to conduct this background check Successful completion of a drug test is a condition of employment for safety-sensitive positions.

Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov 

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida.  Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement. 

The successful candidate will be required to complete the Form I-9 and that information will be verified using the E-Verify system.  E-Verify is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to verify employment eligibility.   

Incumbents may be required to perform emergency duty before, during, and/or beyond normal work hours or days.

All Florida Department of Health positions require the incumbent to be able to learn and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, in English. Applicants who do not meet this requirement will not be considered.  

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace. 

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-877-562-7287). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation. 

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act. 

Florida has the third largest population of veterans in the nation with more than 1.5 million service men and women.  The Florida Department of Health (department) is committed to serving members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans and their families by encouraging them to apply for vacancies that fit their area of knowledge and/or expertise.  Through the Department's VALOR program, which expedites licensing for military veterans, the Department also waives initial licensing and application fees for military veterans who apply for a health care professional license within 60 months of an honorable discharge. These initiatives help ensure that the transition from military service into the workforce...