This position is ONLY open to current Colorado state residents.
This position is a hybrid position, with days, evenings, and weekend shifts.
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical conditions related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
Although the full salary range for this position is provided, appointments are typically made at or near the range minimum.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a TERM-LIMITED position and funding cannot be guaranteed beyond 06/30/2025. The incumbent in this position must be willing and able to resign on this date or when funds run out, whichever comes first.
Be BOLD.....Make a REAL difference . . . and join us in serving our communities advancing Colorado's health and protecting the places we live, work, learn, and play, to create a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive.
Our mission… is to advance Colorado's health and protect the places we live, work, learn, and play.
Our vision… is to create a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive.
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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) serves Coloradans by providing high-quality, and cost-effective public health and environmental protection services that promote healthy people in healthy places. Staff members focus on evidence-based best practices in the public health and environmental fields and play a critical role in educating people in Colorado so they can make informed choices. In addition to maintaining and enhancing our core programs, the Department continues to identify and respond to emerging issues affecting Colorado's public and environmental health.
The Work Unit:
Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response (DCPHR)
The Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response (DCPHR) exists to ensure that the Department has the ability to effectively monitor, detect, diagnose, prepare for, and nimbly respond to, all types of conditions and events that impact the public’s health. The Division is the department’s lead surveillance, planning and response arm for public events including communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics, pandemics, bioterrorism, and other public health and mass casualty events and disasters.
DCPHR’s new Mobile Public Health Clinic Program (MPHCP) combines aspects of two successful programs - mobile vaccine buses and pop-up clinics - leveraged during Colorado’s COVID-19 and mpox responses and builds this into our routine disease control infrastructure. MPHCP is responsible for bridging gaps in access to disease control and public health services statewide, with an emphasis on serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), low income people, uninsured people and underserved communities such as those in rural areas of the state or with high social vulnerability. On a day-to-day basis, vaccine clinics for routine, COVID-19, flu and mpox vaccines are our core service offering. Other disease control services that can be provided include administration of immune globulin (IG) during outbreaks for post-exposure protection to people who can’t be vaccinated (e.g. hepatitis A and measles), and testing services (e.g. respiratory viruses, mpox, food and waterborne illnesses, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases, etc.) during outbreaks of disease exposure incidents. During times of emergency, MPHCP can quickly deploy temporary clinics in places that are most convenient and accessible for the population we are trying to serve. In the future, we plan to partner with other public health programs to potentially offer non-disease control services.
What You Will Be Doing:
This position requires significant travel to different regions of the State of Colorado, serving underserved populations, and bringing public health resources and disease mitigation through vaccinations, testing, and other disease control services. This position requires high levels of engagement with underserved communities, direct patient care for these populations, and managing personal health information.
Responsibilities of the position include but not limited to:
Clinical Services
- Provides direct patient care to the public according to MPHCP protocols, standing orders and required training, including but not limited to: immunizations, immune globulin (IG) during outbreaks for postexposure protection to people who can’t be vaccinated (e.g. hepatitis A and measles), and testing services (e.g. respiratory viruses, Mpox, food and waterborne illnesses, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases, etc.) during outbreaks of disease exposure incidents.
- Draws and prepares vaccine doses for patients.
- Prepares, administers, and transports needed testing samples.
- Provides oversight for all inventory and equipment within the mobile vans including and as necessary, setup and take-down duties.
- Ensures standing orders and protocols are followed including medical management plans for vaccine reactions.
- Provides immunization education and ensures informed consent.
- Follows proper vaccination techniques to ensure patient safety, including proper temperature control, management and labeling for vaccine inventory.
- Provides patient centered care in a way that maintains cultural humility through effective communication and interaction with people across diverse cultures and through patients’ preferred language.
- Responsible for screening each patient for publicly-funded vaccine (VFC, 317 or state) eligibility.
- Responsible for reporting clinically significant adverse events and vaccine administration errors through the Federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
- Consult with on-site Registered Nurses on patient decision making and/or following written protocols for decision making provided by MPHCP’s medical director.
- Ensures testing protocols are followed with regards to: collecting all required patient data, test ordering, and specimen collection, storage, and transportation.
- Drives a cargo sized mobile public health clinic van to and from clinic sites sometimes over multiple days and sometimes through reasonable winter weather conditions.
Vaccine Management & Screening
- Completes required VFC training and complies with proper storage and handling protocols.
- Maintains and monitors vaccine storage equipment during transport and on-site at the clinic.
- Reads and records vaccine storage unit minimum/maximum temperatures at recommended intervals.
- Follows all off-site clinic requirements and guidance from the VFC program, and the
- Routine Vaccine Management Plan and the Emergency Vaccine Management.
- Responsible for proper VFC eligibility screening and documentation procedures.
- Maintains the organization of vaccines within storage units, keeping VFC vaccines labeled and separate from privately purchased vaccines.
- Takes immediate action to respond when vaccines are exposed to out-of-range temperatures; documents any temperature excursion and all actions taken; and notifies the VFC Program and supplies all follow up documentation in a timely manner.
Administrative Duties and Training
- Updates vaccine administration system, Primary Health, CIIS, and internal trackers with administrative data from clinics in a timely manner.
- Provides reports after each clinic with metrics including doses given, attendance, etc.
- Oversees all aspects of patient privacy including communications, considerations for CDPHE’s physical presence within the community, and the proper collection and protection of patient information, ensuring that HIPAA privacy rules are enforced.
- Completes and abides by required annual VFC training course, CDC You Call the Shots training course and meets all VFC recertification requirements in a timely manner. including HIPAA privacy training, as required by the MPHCP.
- Stocks the mobile clinic vans with needed supplies, complete necessary training, and ensures vans are being maintained for safe driving.
- Maintains an active Colorado Licensed Practical Nurse license.
- Maintains CPR/BLS certification.
- Maintains a travel card to manage travel expenses, completes relevant reimbursement forms, as required.
- Completes training on routine and emergency vaccine management procedures.
- Completes all training in the MPHCP Onboarding Plan.
- Completes any other training determined to be necessary by MPHCP Supervisor or DCPHR Leadership. Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
NOTE:To be considered for this position, your application must clearly demonstrate that you meet the following option needed for consideration:
Current, valid licensure as a Licensed Practicing Nurse from the Colorado Board of Nursing or any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
**Complete Board approved IV certification course including supervised clinical; OR document completion of such from another state Maintains evidence (both LPN and employer) of original documentation and demonstration of IV knowledge/judgment/skill
Follows written IV policies and procedures approved by medical staff, nursing and agency administration
**Advanced Educational Preparation for LPNs in Colorado is limited to IV certification
**A copy of your License must be submitted at the time of application.**
**Experience must be substantiated within the Work Experience section of your application. "See Resume" will not be accepted.**
NOTE: Click on the link here How to Apply to submit a complete application that documents your work history giving details of your qualifications, including how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications for this position when listing your work history.
Preferred Qualifications:
In addition to the minimum requirements, the successful candidate in this position will have the following highly desirable experience and competencies:
- Relevant experience with the State of Colorado.
- Experience in working with underserved and diverse communities and populations.
- Bilingual in Spanish.
- Experience with vaccinations and/or in a clinical setting.
- Proficient in word processing and competency in technology and equipment used in a health care setting. Knowledge and ability to apply the theory and principles of clinical nursing practices, including the regulations that apply to nursing facilities and the ability to apply them effectively.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to perform the physical demands of this active position.
- Thoroughness when performing work and conscientiousness in attention to detail.
- Advanced Interpersonal and conflict management skills e.g. displays understanding, courtesy, tact, empathy and concern, develops and maintains effective relationships, deals skillfully with people who are difficult, hostile or distressed, effectively manages and resolves conflicts, confrontations and disagreements in a positive and constructive way.
Conditions of Employment:
- Pursuant to CDPHE policy, a background check is required for all positions at CDPHE.
- Critical Status: Must be available in the event of an emergency, (e.g., bio-terrorist attack, chemical attack, disease outbreak or all hazards) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time, travel restrictions may be in place.
- Critical Status: Must be available in the event of the activation of the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time, travel restrictions may be in place.
- Special Conditions of Employment: required vaccinations for the position include up to date ACIP recommended vaccines, others as necessary based off current response(s).
- This is a term-limited position. Funding cannot be guaranteed beyond 06/30/2025. The incumbent in this position must be willing and able to resign on this date or when funds run out, whichever comes first.
- Special Qualification (e.g., professional licenses, certifications): Licensed Practical Nurse in good standing. Shift work required: Evenings/Weekend Shift.
- This position requires travel within the State of Colorado, where clinics can occur across the state and can take place over multiple days, evenings and weekends.
Appeal Rights:
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.
For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
A complete application packet must include:
- A completed State of Colorado application.
- Copy of your current and valid Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) licensure.
- A cover letter that describes how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position.
- If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214 attached to your colorado.gov/jobs application.
The Selection Process:
- All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the Minimum Qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications proceed to the next step.
- If you submit more than one application, before the closing deadline, only the most recent application submitted will be used in the recruitment process.
- Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
- Part of, or all of, the comparative analysis for this position may be a structured application review, which involves a review of the information you submit in your application materials by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) against the preferred qualifications.
- A top group, up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.
E-Verify: CDPHE uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
You must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be appointed to this position. CDPHE does not sponsor non-residents of the United States.
ADAAA Accommodations:
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Dan McKenna, at daniel.mckenna@state.co.us or call 303-692-2060, option 5.
