Public Health Nurse II - In-field

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Location: Suite A (Health)

Address: Morehead City, NC

Company: Carteret County Government

Requisition ID: 2025-221

Job Type: Full-Time

Posting Date: 09/05/2025

Closing Date: 09/18/2025

Public Health Nurse II – Care Management

The Job

Carteret County Government is seeking a Public Health Nurse II to join the Health Department’s Care Management team.  Do you have a nursing degree and public health experience?  If you enjoy serving your community, the Public Health Nurse II role may be your next career move! 

The Location

Office location is Morehead City, NC.

The Details

Hiring range $68,724.24 - $75,596.66

Posting expires 9/18/2025

Full-time with benefits including paid medical, dental, vision and life insurance; retirement and 401(k) plans; and, paid sick, vacation and holiday leave.

Apply online at https://carteretcountync.gov & click on the Employment link.

The Job Description

General Statement of Duties

The Public Health Nurse II - Care Management provides case management for a designated caseload of pregnant women, with sometimes complicated pregnancies or critical environmental concerns.  This employee collaborates with the client, and other community partners and Health Care Providers to facilitate client access to those health and social services which enhance the patient’s health/wellbeing and her ability to adhere to the prescribed medical treatment regimen in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.  The employee provides services to the patient in a variety of Community and Clinical settings.

Distinguishing Features of the Class
This is intermediate level professional nursing work in providing primary, preventive and rehabilitative care to individuals and families in the Public Health Programs.  Employees independently demonstrate and implement techniques of Nursing Care and counsel the promotion of health and prevention of disease through outreach.  Employees will be expected to assist in the data collection and review in any project they are associated with.  Employees may manage a program-level support activity; participate in program or agency-wide planning and quality assurance activities; contribute observations or data related to patient or community trends or practices ideas for improved program performance; participate in record audits and other program reviews.  Work is performed under the direct supervision of the Care Management Supervisor and is evaluated by review of records, reports, in conferences, approval of seminars and observation.

Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Duties and Tasks
• Uses the nursing process to provide Case Management services to an assigned caseload.
• Completes initial patient assessment and identifies problems, needs, and concerns.
• Accurately identifies and prioritizes patient problems using critical thinking skills.
• Collaborates with client, physician, and other providers to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Schedules encounter sessions in collaboration with the health care team and informs patient of the encounter schedule.  
• Effectively communicates plan of care and other patient related activities both verbally and in writing to appropriate personnel and agencies.
• Utilizes clinical skills and assessments to work autonomously in outpatient, community settings, and to communicate with physicians and other providers regarding alterations to plan of care.
• Demonstrates the ability to use teaching, learning and counseling skills.
• Identification and referral, acts as a liaison with hospital, physicians, and other programs to locate qualified patients for this program.  The goal is to contact/visit all pregnant women who qualify for Medicaid within this geographical area who have Priority Risk Factors related to their pregnancy.

Additional Job Duties

• Any other duty as necessary, including assisting with any public health emergency including but not limited to natural disasters, man-made disasters, influenza pandemics (e.g. H1N1) or other outbreaks of communicable diseases, disaster surveillance and response, to ensure the efficiency of the Health Department.
• Serving in the shelters in the event of an opening due to emergency.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Considerable knowledge of and skill in the application of nursing theory, practices, principles, and techniques employed in the field of public health and related programs; general knowledge of and ability to apply the principles and practices of public health, working knowledge of current social and economic problems relating to public health; working knowledge of available resources and organizations.  Ability to deal tactfully with others and to exercise good judgment in appraising situations and making decisions, ability to secure the cooperation of clients, to elicit needed information and to maintain effective working relationships; ability to record accurately services rendered and to interpret and explain records.  Must have good verbal and written communication skills, possess the ability to work positively as a team member and be culturally sensitive.

Physical Requirements

• This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force.
• Work regularly requires sitting and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires walking, speaking or hearing, reaching with hands and arms and repetitive motions and occasionally requires standing, climbing or balancing and stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
• Work requires close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color perception, and peripheral vision.
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly.
• Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
• Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities.
• Work requires occasional exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment and exposure to outdoor weather conditions.
• Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).