What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Health Adviser Bureau of School Health position at City of New York?
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 worldrenowned 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 Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 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 antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV / AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.
Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are :
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated 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.
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including : reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change
Our 7000plus 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 racisms 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 antiracist 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.
The Division of Family and Child Health (DFCH) of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is charged with the creation and oversight of programs policies services and environments that support physical and socioemotional health and promote primary and reproductive health services health equity social justice safety and wellbeing for New York City families and children. The Division is comprised of the Bureau of Maternal Infant and Reproductive Health the Bureau of Early Intervention the Office of School Health and the Bureau of Administration. The vision of the DFCH is that every child woman and family recognizes their power and is given the opportunity to reach their full health and development potential. We encourage qualified applicants with demonstrated commitment to social justice particularly racial gender and LGBTQ equity to apply.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO :
Under the supervision of the Public Health Nurse Level III and in collaboration with PHN Level II; the Public Health Adviser level I will be responsible for the following duties : Collecting and transmitting medical records from assigned schools to the Central Health office
Creating and updating school health records
Establishing and maintaining a working relationship with school personnel
Transcribing medical information as received; assisting selfdirected students with their own medication
Documenting observations on the Medication Logs and students medical records
Ensuring that students equipment are functioning and properly used; maintaining adequate storage of students medication
Performing simple first aid
Participating in agencywide activities for Emergency Preparedness.
- IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL CANDIDATES :
Please note : If you are called for an interview you will be required to bring to your interview copies of original documentation such as :
A document that establishes identity for employment eligibility such as : A Valid U.S. Passport Permanent Resident Card / Green Card or Drivers license.
Proof of Education according to the education requirements of the civil service title.
Current Resume
Proof of Address / NYC Residency dated within the last 60 days such as : Recent Utility Bill (i.e. Telephone Cable Mobile Phone)
Additional documentation may be required to evaluate your qualification as outlined in this postings Minimum Qualification Requirements section. Examples of additional documentation may be but not limited to : college transcript experience verification or professional trade licenses.
If after your interview you are the selected candidate you will be contacted to schedule an onboarding appointment. By the time of this appointment you will be asked to produce the originals of the above documents along with your original Social Security card.
As a prospective employee of the City of New York you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information please visit the U.S. Department of Educations website at StudentAid.gov / PSLF.
FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL
This position MAY be eligible for remote work up to two days per week pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program.
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER (SCHOOL 51195
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university 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 or university and six months of fulltime 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 fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a States Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization and four years of fulltime 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 fulltime experience. However all candidates must have a fouryear 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.
Additional Requirements
A. To be assigned to Assignment Level II candidates must have in addition to meeting the minimum qualification requirements listed above at least one year of experience as a Public Health Adviser (School Health) Assignment Level I or
at least one additional year of experience as described in Qualification Requirement 2 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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
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