Public Health Nurse Manager

The Job

2,000 HIRING BONUS!

Future Salary Increases

3.00% across the board salary increase effective February 22, 2026

Bi-annual step increases up to Step 14

Do you enjoy having weekends and holidays off?

Public Health Nurse Managers work Monday through Friday!

The Department of Public Health (DPH) is recruiting for a Public Health Nurse Manager who will administer and supervise a variety of countywide public health nurses and community programs serving maternal through young adult population including foster youth, and staffed primarily by Supervising Public Health Nurses, Public Health Nurses, Health Education Specialists, and Environmental Health Specialists. This position will work under the direction of the Division Chief of Community and Family Health and works to ensure excellent program and nursing services and evidence-based practice, while optimizing resources for achieving individual and community health outcomes. Essential functions include :

• Plan, implement, and evaluate patient care by assigning nursing tasks daily to Public Health Nurses and related support staff based on available skills and with consideration for the needs of each patient.
• Assign, review and evaluate work of assigned nursing and support staff; handle disciplinary and hiring actions; oversee preparation and control of staff scheduling and payroll time and attendance processing.
• Implements objectives of care and standards of practice. Monitors patient care quality; discuss plans with physicians, other professional disciplines, patients and families; investigate and facilitate documentation of unusual occurrences and report risk management issues.
• Oversees instruction of nursing personnel in technical nursing skills. Ensures nursing staff competency.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements, policies, procedures and standards of care practice.
• Provide input into preparation of budget, monitors human and material resource utilization and provides justification for budget variances.
• Oversees studies of nursing and patient care issues, systems, procedures and policies.
• Participate in the development and implementation of performance improvement initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

Applicants must meet all of the following licensure / certification, education, and experience requirements :

Desired Qualifications

The ideal candidate has supervisory and administrative experience; possesses excellent knowledge and competency and experience with the scope and standards of public health nursing practice, including individual and population-based assessment, diagnosis, outcomes, planning and evaluation; expertise with quality management; strong and confident in leading and supervising a multidisciplinary staff; competent in serving diverse cultural communities and skilled in writing and oral communication. A public health nurse with a Master's degree in business / public / health administration is highly desirable.

Selection Process

There will be a competitive evaluation of qualifications based on a review of the application and supplemental questionnaire. It is to your advantage to be explicit in your responses on the application and supplemental questionnaire. Applications will be accepted until a sufficient number of qualified applications are received. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as this recruitment may close at any time. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of the application and / or supplemental questionnaire.

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) / Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) : San Bernardino County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant employer, dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants.

ADA Accommodation : If you have a disability and need accommodations during the testing process, please submit the Special Testing Accommodations Request Form (Download PDF) within one week of the recruitment filing deadline.

Veterans' Preference : Eligible veterans, their spouses, or widows / widowers who are not current County employees may receive additional Veterans' Preference points. For details and instructions on how to request these points, please refer to the Veterans' Preference Information (Download PDF).

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