Nurse Home Visitor **$6,000** SIGN ON BONUS

Job Description

Job Description

The Nurse Home Visitor provides program guided preventive health and social services to at risk pregnant women and children birth to 2 years of age. The Nurse Home Visitor will utilize advanced skills to assess individual and family needs; screening clients for eligibility, providing case management, offering program outlined educational models, and making referrals for community intervention services to promote positive family functioning and child outcomes.
The Nurse Home Visitor supervisor will review referrals from community agencies and the Health Department and assign case management interventions based on level of service needed. The Nurse Home Visitor and Supervisor will work closely with private providers, and others providing family support/case management programs, in the health department and other community agencies.

Services can be provided in hospitals, private physicians' offices and home settings; designed to enhance the continuum of services available to this population. The Nurse Home Visitor/Advocate will maintain a safe environment and perform job responsibilities in a safe manner. The goals of the project are to achieve family outcomes as good as or better than the outcomes have that have been demonstrated through research, and aligns with the goals of the Surgeon General and the Office of Population Affairs.

Essential Qualifications

• An associate degree in nursing and a valid nursing license is required and one year of Public Health experience or graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing with at least two years of professional experience, including one year of public health experience. Current license or temporary license to practice as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina by the NC Board of Nursing.
• Current, valid North Carolina driver's license is required.
• Maternal Child Health nursing experience is preferred.
• Spanish as an additional language is preferred.
• Participation on agency committees and in community activities as a program representative.
• Certification in basic CPR
• Conduct parent training as qualified and when needed.
• Provide learning experiences for nursing students and other community agencies.

Work hours will need to be flexible within the agency's established work day policies in order schedule interviews or chart reviews to accommodate the work/schools schedules and social structure of each family. Home visits may occur in "at risk" neighborhoods. Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, pushing, and pulling.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk hear, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, color, peripheral depth and the ability to adjust focus