Health Underwriter, Sr. jobs in Santa Maria, CA

The Public Health Department is currently recruiting for Public Health Nurses (PHN) to fill multiple vacancies in the Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Division.

About the Division:

Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) promotes and protects the health and well-being of women, infants, children, adolescents, and their families who are at increased risk of adverse health outcomes. MCAH is responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating services that address population health priorities across San Luis Obispo County. The division partners and works collaboratively with the community to achieve population health goals through assessment, advocacy, education, training, outreach, quality assurance, and policy development.

For nurses who have ever thought “I wish I had more time with my patients.”

• Field Nursing positively impacts the health and well-being of hundreds of San Luis Obispo families through direct home-based interventions.

• Field nursing in San Luis Obispo County includes Nurse Family Partnership, Healthy Families America, and an Early Support Program designed to build relationships, provide guidance and education, link to resources, and supports individuals and family groups from pre-pregnancy through the childhood years to meet their individualized goals. Each of these strength-based programs are voluntary for participants and aimed to reduce health disparities by delivering trauma-informed, family-centered, and culturally competent care.

• Field nursing is looking for innovative and passionate Public Health Nurses who can practice autonomously out in the community and work as a partner within a larger system of community-based care providers. This position provides leadership opportunities, welcomes ideas and outside-the-box approaches and thinking.

• Public Health Nurses working within Field Nursing spend approximately 80% of their working time in the community and 20% in an office setting.

• The Field Nursing positions are based in Morro Bay, Grover Beach, San Luis Obispo, and Paso Robles, but will serve the community countywide as needed. Nurses are assigned location based on community need. 

• La Enfermería de Campo tiene un impacto positivo en la salud y el bienestar de cientos de familias de San Luis Obispo a través de intervenciones directas en el hogar.
• La Enfermería de Campo en el Condado de San Luis Obispo incluye la Asociación de Enfermeras y Familias (Nurse Family Partnership), Familias Saludables en América (Healthy Families America), y un Programa de Apoyo Temprano diseñado para construir relaciones, proporcionar orientación y educación, vincular a los recursos, y apoyar a los individuos y grupos familiares desde antes del embarazo hasta los años de la infancia para cumplir con sus objetivos individualizados. Cada uno de estos programas basados en los puntos fuertes, es voluntario para los participantes y su objetivo es reducir las disparidades sanitarias prestando una atención informada sobre los traumas centrada en la familia y culturalmente competente.
•  La Enfermería de Campo busca Enfermeras de Salud Pública innovadoras y apasionadas que puedan ejercer de forma autónoma en la comunidad y trabajar como colaboradoras dentro de un sistema más amplio de proveedores de atención basados en la comunidad. Este puesto ofrece oportunidades de liderazgo y da la bienvenida a ideas y planteamientos innovadores
• Las Enfermeras de Salud Pública que trabajan en Enfermería de Campo
• Pasan aproximadamente el 80% de su tiempo de trabajo en la comunidad y el 20% en una oficina.
• Los puestos de Enfermería de Campo se basan en Morro Bay, Grover Beach, San Luis Obispo y Paso Robles, pero servirán a la comunidad en todo el condado según sea necesario. Se asigna la ubicación a enfermeras basado en la necesidad de la comunidad.