Public Health Nurse - Communicable Disease

Job Posting End Date:

12-19-2025

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

Position Summary:

The public health nurse promotes health and disease prevention through providing a variety of individual, family, and community-based health programs. This position works with the communicable disease team. The work is performed under the direction of the Director of Family Health & Communicable Disease. The position requires primarily weekday hours with some evening and weekend work. Frequent in-state traveling and rare out-of-state traveling for education is required. This is a 32 hour per week position.

Examples of Work Performed:

The following duties are typical of this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required or assigned.

• Conducts disease case investigations.

• Educates individuals and groups on health and wellness.

• Provides immunizations, screening, testing and other health services.

• Responds to urgent public health matters.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or an advanced degree in nursing from an approved college/university. 

• License to practice nursing in Wisconsin.

• CPR certification needed. If the candidate does not possess it at the time of application, it will need to be attained within the first three months of employment.

• Driver's license and a driving record that meets County standards.

Preferred:

• Experience with women who are pregnant, postpartum, and/or young children and their families on an inpatient, outpatient, or community setting.

• Experience with vulnerable populations professionally or as a volunteer.

• Experience responding to or treating communicable diseases.

• Previous public health experience.

• Bilingual.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Normal Duties:

• Utilizes programmatic, community, state, and national data to support community coalition work, quality improvement and for problem solving with individuals, facilities, and communities.

• Actively contributes to quality improvement activities by proposing ideas for improvement, creating solutions, and actively participating in implementation and evaluation.

• Strategically outreaches to community agencies to partner around services and referrals.

• Collaborates with community partners to improve health in the community.

• Conducts case management of pregnant women, children and families, refugees/immigrants, and individuals with infectious diseases requiring treatment by the health department.

• Prepares a plan of care with client and provides interventions as outlined in policies and procedures.

• Responds to reportable communicable diseases as defined by state statues. This may involve investigation, contact tracing, teaching, and collaboration with medical providers.

• Provides consultation to businesses, long term care facilities, daycares, and other congregate settings to prevent disease transmission in an outbreak.

• Participates in public health preparedness activities and assumes assigned role within the department's Incident Command Structure.

• Works in a variety of settings that may include the office, client homes, and the Marathon County jail.

• Documents all public health interventions using established systems in a timely manner.

• Develops data focused policies, documents, educational handouts or social media postings to share reputable information with the community.

• Establishes professional development goals that are supportive of broader County goals.

• Participates in continuing education activities to update skills and knowledge.

• Promotes best practices within the organization by bringing forth new knowledge from current research, conferences, and expert consultation to update standards of care.

• Actively contributes to a positive organizational culture.

• Performs related work as required.

Public Health Competencies Required:

• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills

  • Describes factors that affect the health of a community.

  • Collects quantitative and qualitative data.

  • Manages quantitative and qualitative data.

  • Assesses community health status.

• Policy Development and Program Planning Skills

  • Implements policies, programs, and services.

  • Improves policies, programs, services, and organizational performance.

  • Influences policies, programs, and services external to the organization.

• Communication Skills

  • Determines communication strategies.

  • Communicates with internal and external audiences.

  • Responds to information, misinformation, and disinformation.

  • Facilitates communication among individuals, groups, and organizations.

• Health Equity Skills

  • Applies principles of ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

  • Engages in continuous self-reflection about one’s biases.

  • Recognizes the diversity of individuals and populations.

  • Contributes to achieving and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and competent public health workforce.

  • Advocates for health equity and social and environmental justice.

• Community Partnership Skills

  • Establishes relationships to improve community health and resilience.

  • Collaborates with community members and organizations.

• Public Health Sciences Skills

  • Applies public health sciences in delivering the 10 Essential Public Health Services.

  • Uses evidence in developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving policies, programs, and services.

• Management and Finance Skills

  • Manages human resources.

  • Engages in professional development.

  • Applies critical thinking in decision making.

  • Facilitates collaboration among individuals, groups, and organizations.

• Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

  • Creates opportunities to achieve cross-sector alignment.

  • Creates opportunities for creativity and innovation.

  • Responds to emerging needs.

  • Manages organizational change.

  • Engages politicians, policymakers, and the public to support public health infrastructure.

Compensation:

Staring salary: $56,259.84 + Marathon County benefits (benefits are prorated for this position)

Physical Requirements:

Moderate Physical Requirements - Job requires a combination of desk work and some physical activity.

All physical requirements are described with the intent to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job.

Selection Procedure:

The selection of the successful candidate may be made by assessment of education and work experience, oral interview, review of references, and/or other job-related selection procedures. Depending on position requirements, the selected candidate may be required to satisfactorily complete post-offer assessments, including but not limited to education verification, background checks, driver license verification, physical examination, psychological assessment, and drug screening paid for by the County.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Marathon County is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information or protected veteran status.

Special Accommodations:

Marathon County will make arrangements to furnish appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary and reasonable to afford an individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in the recruitment process. Please notify the Employee Resources Department office or phone (715) 261-1451 to request special accommodations prior to the application deadline.

Notice to Applicants:

Wisconsin Statutes, Sections 19.36 (7), 64.09 (5), and 64.11 (7) require public employers to treat the following items as a public record: Each applicant’s application, records, recommendations, and qualifications except as provided in Section 19.36 (7), Wis. Stats. that allows the identity of an applicant to remain confidential if the applicant requests in writing that the County not provide access to this information.  If you choose not to have this information become a public record, you must make such a request in writing to the Employee Resources Department. If you become a finalist for the position, your identity may be disclosed as required by law