Public Health Adviser
$54,799–$69,828 year
On-site · Long Island City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Public Health Adviser to join the Expanded Contact Investigation Unit in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Duties include reviewing and entering data in the TB surveillance system, planning and conducting TB contact investigations in residential and non-residential congregate settings (e.g., worksites, schools, shelters), communicating with patients, healthcare providers, laboratories, and others to conduct interviews, collect information, arrange follow-up medical evaluations, assessing results to determine needed public health interventions, assisting with TB education sessions, coordinating contact identification/notification/education/care coordination, supporting TB testing events (including phlebotomy) and medical chart reviews, and other duties as required. Preferred skills include knowledge of the healthcare delivery system, experience communicating with patients and healthcare providers, experience with structured interviews, medical terminology, and strong organizational and written/oral communication skills. Benefits include loan forgiveness options, comprehensive health insurance, pension, tax-advantaged savings, and a Work From Home policy allowing up to two days from home depending on position.
Required Qualifications
- 1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twelve semester credits in health education, or in health, social or biological sciences; or
- 2) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and six months of full-time satisfactory experience in a health promotion or disease intervention/prevention program, performing one or more of the following: interviewing, conducting field investigations, assessing health risks, making referrals, or collecting and analyzing epidemiological data; or
- 3) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and four years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in '2' above; or
- 4) Education and/or experience equivalent to '1','2' or '3' above. Undergraduate college credit can be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of full-time experience. However, all candidates must have a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and either twelve semester credits as described in '1' above or six months of experience as described in '2' above.
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