Memorandum
Date: March 2, 2021
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Denise Pomeroy, Health Services Director
Subject: Approve Advance Step hiring of Ms. Eileen Harmon in the position of Public Health Nurse, Senior, at Step 5, due to candidates extraordinary qualifications
Executive Summary:
This applicant possesses over 30 years’ worth of nursing experience, including 12 years’ experience as a Public Health Nurse. Ms. Harmon has extensive hands on involvement in providing support and supervision in multiple Public Health programs, including family and adult services, communicable disease, and Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) programs.
Ms. Harmon’s established knowledge of Public Health programs and considerable hands on experience are an invaluable asset to the Health Services department. Hiring Ms. Harmon would allow the department to provide nursing support to understaffed programs, while maintaining full staffing for COVID Crisis Response efforts.
The Public Health Nurse, Senior has long been a hard to fill position at Health Services, with minimal qualified applicants applying. Factoring in the difficulty of attracting qualified applicants, and Ms. Harmon’s impressive qualifications, Health Services respectfully requests approval to hire Eileen Harmon at the advance step rate.
Adequate funds exist in wages and benefits object codes for this request and is accounted for in the existing budget due to unfilled positions resulting in staff salary savings.
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Recommended Action: Approve Health Services advance step hire request for Public Health Nurse, Senior applicant Eileen Harmon.