Overview The Southwest Suburban Health Department is seeking a Part‑time Public Health Nurse (20 hours per week) to serve residents of the City of West Allis and the City of Greenfield. This role focuses on communicable disease control and clinical services, including immunizations, TB testing, and blood‑pressure screenings. The position also provides case management for prenatal care coordination, lead poisoning, adult health, and home‑visiting services through assessment, education, counseling, and referral support. The Public Health Nurse serves as a trusted community resource, contributes to program development and operations, participates in outreach events, and helps ensure high‑quality public health standards. If you are passionate about community health and ready to serve, Apply Today! West Allis residents receive an additional 5% on top of the hourly pay range. Responsibilities Independently and confidently assumes case management of a client or population based (e.g. schools) caseload across the lifespan including complex or more intense cases in a culturally competent manner. Case referral are within the Foundations of Public Health (Access to & Linkages with Clinical Care; Communicable Disease; Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention; Environmental; Maternal-Child-Family. Provide assessment, health education/counseling, and referral assistance. Purpose of caseload management is to promote and maintain the health of an individual, family, population group, and community for health status improvement. Make referrals to other WAHD Divisions, City Departments or community agencies as needed and work collaboratively; may function as the lead resource professional on case. Has considerable to proficient knowledge of principles of public including epidemiology; communicable diseases, surveillance, transmission and reduction of disease spread; maternal-child-family-adult health principles; environmental topics such as lead, CO poisoning; chronic disease and injury prevention; access and linkages to clinical care that demonstrates expertise with managing a caseload. Work collaboratively with resources such as approved interpreter services. Participate in outreach to our clinic/medical surveillance sites to assure proper communicable disease reporting, inform of new public health initiatives. Follow‑up and case management on reportable communicable diseases (mandated function of public health) including active tuberculosis cases for individual and outbreak situations that include counseling, ensuring treatment, dispensing tuberculosis medications and/or exclusion or quarantine per recommendations, surveillance, and reduction of disease spread in community. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Nursing State of Wisconsin Nursing License One to two years of professional paid nursing experience (public health experience preferred) within the last 4 years #J-18808-Ljbffr