REGISTERED NURSE SPECIALIST - 64000769

Requisition No: 855928 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: REGISTERED NURSE SPECIALIST - 64000769

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 64000769 

Salary:  $45,000 - $50,000 

Posting Closing Date: 08/11/2025 

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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY

This is a professional clinical nursing position for the Medical Foster Care (MFC) Program reporting to the Registered Nursing Supervisor. The individual in this position administers pediatric nursing care utilizing the nursing process in the assessment, education, implementation, and evaluation of the health care delivery of services and MFC plan of care (POC). This includes evaluating and advising on health maintenance, disease prevention, and management of medically complex care of a child in the home environment.

Your Specific Responsibilities:

Assessment

Completes pre-service assessment, interview, and written assessment of prospective MFC parents and their home environment, including a home visit for on-site observation review.

Assesses MFC patient referrals to determine suitable match of individual child/youth medically complex needs with available MFC parent provider with the appropriate clinical skills and home dynamics. Concurs reviews of appropriate matches with MFC staff including Medical Director for consideration of recommendation for admission.

Provides ongoing assessment and surveillance of the MFC parent and child dyad in the home environment, which includes implementation of prescribed treatments and interventions as outlined in the MFC POC. Interprets, and/or evaluates medical orders, and medical records to assess patient's condition, and needed updates to the MFC POC.

Safeguards the provision of necessary equipment, medications, supplies, and other necessary patient specific resources and supports.

Provides ongoing assessment information and discusses cases with MFC staff including Medical Director.

Completes periodic verbal and written assessments of MFC parent providers’ care of child(ren) in home and adherence to program standards.

Reviews data, assessments, and documentation verifying accuracy, quality, and completion of goals or outcomes.

Monitors the quality of care or standards of practice to ensure compliance with program, state and federal requirements.

Develops and monitors technical assistance or corrective action plans of MFC parent services for quality improvement and adherence to program standards and policies. Provides continuous assessment to assure correction and sustainability of performance with desired outcomes.

Responds to special directions and instructions during emergency operations inclusive of providing assessment support pre, during and post emergencies.

Communication

Provides quality verbal and written communication with MFC and community stakeholders to ensure understanding and engagement throughout process. Facilitates coordination in the scheduling of MFC staffing’s ensuring timely notification and engagement of necessary MFC stakeholders including, but not limited, to the MFC client’s Medicaid Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) plan and CBC representative.

Engages, advocates, and supports opportunities for current or future caregiver participation, as appropriate, and family-centered approaches in the MFC program.

Provides verbal and written nursing education and documentation of training and technical assistance to MFC and community stakeholders.

Provides consistent messaging that aligns with statutes, rules policies, procedures, and processes which affect decisions, determinations, and management of the program.

Responds to regional and statewide requests for information about MFC program coordination.

Acts as the MFC program liaison in communication with other community providers and stakeholders.

Serves as a liaison between the MFC provider and the MMA Plan.

Attends and participates in other meetings as assigned.

Education and Training

Provides pre-service MFC training for foster parents considering the MFC program.

Provides or assists in the provision of MFC program onboarding training. Provides or coordinates and oversees annual training requirements. Tracks program training requirements to ensure completion.

Provides or oversees child/youth specific training. Child/youth specific training includes comprehensive training with return understanding or demonstration of necessary knowledge and skills needed to care for medically complex needs of child/youth being admitted into the MFC parent home. Provides ongoing child/youth specific training based on evolving and changing needs of child/youth and MFC parent. Provides or oversees the provision of child/youth specific training with biological or adoptive parents in preparation for reunification discharge from the MFC program.

Provides training and technical assistance to MFC parent to ensure program requirements and MFC parent skill requirements are exceeded or met.

Provides community outreach and education to community stakeholders regarding the MFC program and requirements.

Provides community outreach and education to community stakeholders to identify potential families for MFC parent recruitment.

Implementation

Responsible for all day-to-day nursing aspects of the MFC Program.

Assists with and monitors all aspects of patient care in the implementation of the child’s MFC POC.

Assists with and monitors all aspects of child health care and supervision in the implementation of the child’s MFC POC.

Advises on health maintenance and disease prevention.

Responsible for nursing education or skill training based on individual child/youth diagnosis, symptom management, medication administration, clinical interventions, durable medical equipment needs, nutritional support, or other identified needs.

Develops or selects curriculum and prepares instructional information, and other materials used in teaching. Ensuring return knowledge or demonstration of education or training, documenting the resulting outcome.

Completes other nursing activities needed to ensure a safe admission and ongoing health supervision and care into the program and MFC provider home. Documents activities accordingly.

Provides ongoing nursing support of child and MFC parent according to program requirements, provides or facilitates case management.

Monitors the reporting and recording of symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions, providing nursing expertise and coordination.

Prepares and reviews child/youth specific needs with the MFC parent. Providing professional verbal and written communication aligned with program and agency objectives.

Completes nursing visits to home and community as indicated

Attends and participates in meetings related to care and service provision of child, and other meetings as assigned.

Provides community outreach and education to community stakeholders regarding the MFC program and requirements or to identify potential families for MFC parent recruitment.

Implements organization, program, and individual quality assurance standards in conjunction with management.

Participates in program quality assurance and improvement needs.

Implements activities identified in the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycle, to ensure that continuous quality improvement activities address suboptimal findings.

Quality Assurance

Maintain, review, and monitor MFC related data and Electronic Health Record entries.

Reviews data, assessments and documentation verifying accuracy and quality as they are being completed. In coordination with MFC stakeholders, such as the CBC or licensing agency and MMA plan, evaluates MFC parent

skills, competencies, documentation, timeliness, quality of services provided and other indicated data points.

Develops and monitors technical assistance plans for MFC parent for quality improvement. Provides continuous monitoring to assure correction and sustainability of performance with desired thresholds.

Implements organization, program, and individual quality assurance standards, in conjunction with management. Provides monitoring of program activities for quality assurance purposes. Participates in program quality assurance and improvement needs. Implements documented activities identified in the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles.

Participates in central office training, evaluation, monitoring, and related follow-up activities to improve MFC processes, activities, and outcomes. Provides reports from data base systems as requested by management.

On-Call duty required

Other duties as assigned

Includes coverage of CMAT RN duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of nursing administration, theories and concepts of preventative health care.
• Knowledge of nursing principles, practices, and techniques.
• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.
• Knowledge of quality assurance principles.
• Knowledge of community organizations and resources.
• Knowledge of quality assurance principles.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to collect and organize data and interpret findings.
• Ability to access information from computer data systems and websites.
• Ability to use a computer for word processing, spreadsheets, and database applications.

Qualifications: 

• Must be licensed as a Registered Nurse in the state of Florida.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License
• Travel Time 25%

Minimum or Preferred Qualifications:

• Pediatric Nursing experience
• Bachelor of Nursing Degree or higher

Florida Department of Health Mission, Vision, and Values: 

Mission:

To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.

Vision:

To be the Healthiest State in the Nation.

Values:

I nnovation: We search for creative solutions and manage resources wisely.

C ollaboration: We use teamwork to achieve common goals & solve problems.

A ccountability: We perform with integrity & respect.

R esponsiveness: We achieve our mission by serving our customers & engaging our partners.

E xcellence: We promote quality outcomes through learning & continuous performance improvement.

Where You Will Work:

401 NW 2nd Avenue

Miami, FL 33128

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits;
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions

(For more information, please click www.myfrs.com);

• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Tuition waivers;
• And more!

For a more complete list of benefits, including monthly costs, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

Please be advised:

Your responses to qualifying questions for this position must be verifiable by documentation provided through the electronic application process.  

This position requires a security background check and/or drug screening and participation in direct deposit. Any misrepresentations or omissions will disqualify you from employment consideration. Note: You will be required to provide your Social Security Number (SSN) in order to conduct this background check Successful completion of a drug test is a condition of employment for safety-sensitive positions. 

Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov 

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida.  Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement. 

The successful candidate will be required to complete the Form I-9 and that information will be verified using the E-Verify system.  E-Verify is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to verify employment eligibility.   

Incumbents may be required to perform emergency duty before, during, and/or beyond normal work hours or days.

All Florida Department of Health positions require the incumbent to be able to learn and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, in English. Applicants who do not meet this requirement will not be considered.  

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace. 

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-877-562-7287). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation. 

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act. 

Florida has the third largest population of veterans in the nation with more than 1.5 million service men and women.  The Florida Department of Health (department) is committed to serving members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans and their families by encouraging them to apply for vacancies that fit their area of knowledge and/or expertise.  Through the Department's VALOR program, which expedites licensing for military veterans, the Department also waives initial licensing and application fees for military veterans who apply for a health care professional license within 60 months of an honorable discharge. These initiatives help ensure that the transition from military service into the workforce is as smooth as possible and reflects our appreciation for the dedication devoted to protecting our country. 

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.