Montgomery County is located adjacent to Washington, DC and with over one million residents, is the most populous County in the State of Maryland. The County is also the most diverse County in the State and ranks among the top ten most diverse Counties in the nation. Montgomery County contains many major U.S. government offices, scientific research and learning centers, and business campuses.

The Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for delivery of the County’s public health and human services that the needs of our community’s most vulnerable children, adults and seniors. The Department provides services through more than 120 programs at more than 20 locations. With 1,750 employees, the Department of Health and Human Services is the largest County Department.

As a Department, we believe health and wellness of the county can only be achieved by ensuring that every resident has fair opportunities to reach their fullest potential. This means access to quality housing, transportation, education, employment, health care, human services, safe neighborhoods and healthy food. HHS’ provides critical services for residents who face a variety of obstacles in achieving their full potential. HHS plays an essential role in building a healthy and strong community.

If you are interested in working for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, we invite qualified candidates to apply for our Nurse Practitioner position.

About the Position:

In an Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (APRN) role, the Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) for the Mobile Health Clinic within DHHS’ Public Health Services, will provide person-centered direct primary care, comprehensive nursing, therapeutic and preventive health care services to uninsured or underinsured Montgomery County seniors, adults, and children who are being served by the mobile health and human services unit.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Obtains a comprehensive health history from client or family, performs detailed physical examinations and health assessments, makes a critical evaluation of patients’ health status.
• Employs appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and regimens, including prescribing medications, administering immunizations, performing, or requesting specialized screening and laboratory tests, with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.
• Formulates an action plan and conducts follow-up care based on scientific rationale, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.
• Provides culturally, linguistically, and age-appropriate guidance, teaching and counseling to patients regarding management of acute and chronic health/illnesses and conditions.
• Develops and conducts health educational presentations to residents and community groups.
• Leads, coordinates, or contributes to the achievement of established program goals and objectives through data analysis, policy, and procedure development to ensure quality standards and safety standards.
• Completes reports, maintains statistical data, and uses data visualization concerning patients served/services provided.
• Prepares and maintains patient records involving progress and contact notes, internal and external correspondence in the clinical software system and in the electronic case management system.
• Provides clinical work leadership to the Mobile Health Clinic team.

Work involves standing and bending in the assessment and treatment of clients and some lifting, carrying or moving of objects weighing up to fifty pounds or using equivalent forces. While conducting physical examinations and directly related work, the Nurse Practitioner is exposed to body fluids, human waste, sharps, etc. Such exposure requires use personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves and mouth/nose/eye protection and application of an array of standardized protocols and procedures such as standard/additional precautions for contact with such communicable diseases as hepatitis, TB, STDs and HIV/AIDS to minimize risk to self and persons in their care.

This nurse will need to operate a motor vehicle to drive to locations throughout the County to perform duties and transport supplies. The is a community-based role and will require weekday evening hours as well as weekend day and evening hours.

This position requires basic bilingual proficiency in the Spanish/English language. The candidate selected will be required to pass a language proficiency exam assessing oral communication, reading comprehension, interpreting from Spanish to English and vice versa.

The selected candidate will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment medical exam and drug and alcohol screening.

OHR reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position/IRC.

Montgomery County Government is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email to OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.

Montgomery County Government also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, please refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.

All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.

Experience: Three (3) years of full-time equivalent post-licensure experience as a Registered Nurse; two (2) years of these 3 years must have been as a family nurse practitioner and one (l) year of these 2 years must have been in community health nursing.

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent program as determined by the Maryland Board of Nursing, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and a Master's Degree in Public Health, Community Health Nursing or other appropriate nursing specialty; and successful completion of a Nurse Practitioner Program.

Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for the Master’s Degree or for the required experience, but not for the successful completion of a Nurse Practitioner Program.

License:

• Possession of a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the United States and certification as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Maryland issued, or recognized, by the Maryland Board of Nursing (MBON). Maryland accepts as valid current RN licensure from a candidate’s primary state of residence if that state is a party to National Nurse Licensure Compact (NNLC); additional information is available on the MBON website.

Note: There will be no substitutions for this section.

• Possession and maintenance of a valid Class C (or equivalent) driver’s license from the applicant’s state of residence when required for job-related duties.

There is no Preferred Criteria. All applicants will be reviewed by OHR for minimum qualifications. Those applicants who meet minimum qualifications will be rated Qualified, placed on the Eligible List, and may be considered for an interview.

Preference for interviews will be given to applicants with experience in the following:

• Licensure from the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Division of Drug Control (CDS License) to prescribe drugs.
• Family Nurse Practitioner certification.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Ability to integrate models of person-centered care, social determinants of health, and healthy equity into clinical care practices.
• Knowledge and skill in developing, revising, and maintaining programs, policies and procedures or developing new programs, policies and procedures and helping to implement them.