Job Description

TO BE CONSIDERED, ALL CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT PROOF THAT THEY HAVE FILED FOR THE PROMOTIONAL CIVIL SERVICE EXAM #3542, SUPERVISING PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER, OBTAIN A PASSING SCORE OF 70 AND ABOVE AND BE REACHABLE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE LIST ONCE IT IS PUBLISHED OR MUST BE ALREADY PERMANENT IN THE SUPERVISING PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER TITLE: 51193. CANDIDATES WHO FAIL TO COMPLY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EXAM OR YOUR LIST STATUS, PLEASE CALL 212-669-1357 OR VISIT THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CITYWIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES WEBSITE: nyc.gov/dcas

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises — from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic — we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:

1. To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
2. Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness
3. Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health
4. Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The ACE (Assess. Connect. Engage.) Team in the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH), oversees the City's response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including testing initiatives; prevention, care, and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives. BHHS works to end viral hepatitis, HIV, and STIs in New York City using an approach that is strengths-based, community-driven, and intersectional, accounting for how factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, sex, and socioeconomic status, among others, come together to impact public health.

This position will be supported by funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, earmarked for Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) Workforce Development.

Over the next 4 years, this grant aims to hire, expand, train, sustain, and support DIS to strengthen the capacity of public health departments to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other infections such as sexually transmitted infections including HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis, and to prepare for future public health challenges.

The Coordinator will be responsible for managing all aspects of confidential disease investigation and disease intervention activities in their assigned catchment area.

This position will supervise staff, provide training and mentorship, conduct quality assurance of epidemiologic records, and report to a Team Lead.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• Monitor and conduct quality assurance review of case investigation and epidemiologic records, document in appropriate electronic systems with oversight provided by the Team Lead.

• Assure that disease investigation and disease intervention activities are complete, timely, and accurately documented in the electronic case investigation form, and that national case definitions established by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) are used appropriately for case status.

• Train and enhance skill level of staff in investigation and disease intervention activities.

• Monitor epidemiologic disease trends for assigned catchment area, prepare periodic reports.

• Ensure the timely review and distribution of reports to Public Health Advisors so that investigations and disease interventions are prioritized and conducted efficiently and expeditiously.

• Ensure through follow-up of investigations, narratives, and partner notification utilizing available methods to locate partners.

• Conduct supplemental interviews and community investigations with patients to promote adherence to care and increase partner notification and testing.

• Routinely monitor staff productivity as per program goals and objectives making appropriate recommendations to management based on observations based on evaluation and conduct audits.

• Conduct case reviews with ACE staff to assure quality.

• Provide technical assistance to staff for capacity building and improvements in field operations.

• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with staff and management to meet employee and client needs, as well as program objectives.

• Assure equitable assignments for staff, complete administrative tasks (time keeping, performance evaluation, etc.).

• Participate in the Incident Command System to support emergency response needs as requested; attend all emergency response and ICS trainings.

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of full-time satisfactory experience in a public health program, performing duties involving case finding, case management, interviewing, investigating and other related public health work, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; or

2. An associate degree from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by twelve semester credits in health education, or in health, social or biological sciences; and four years of experience as described in "1" above, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; or

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and six years of experience as described in "1" above, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; or

4. A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. Undergraduate college credit may be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of full-time experience. Twelve credits in the health, social or biological sciences may be substituted for an additional six
months of experience. However, all candidates must have a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and a minimum of two years of experience, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity, as described in "1" above.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.