Supervising PHA

About the role

ONLY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE SUPERVISING PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER CIVIL SERVICE LIST ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

Division/Program Summary

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)'s Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the City's response to viral hepatitis, HIV, a sexually transmitted infection (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders, BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention, treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; research and evaluation; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social initiatives.

The ACE (Assess. Connect. Engage.) Team within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) is responsible for providing partner services to approximately 2000 New Yorkers newly diagnosed with HIV each year, including the identification, tracing, notification, and HIV-testing of their sex and needle-partners.

ACE staff ensures that all newly HIV-diagnosed persons are linked to HIV clinical care. ACE is responsible for outreach to the approximately 2,000 HIV providers and community-based organizations.

ACE staff undertake the continuous education of providers and community members about HIV laws and regulations and build/maintain structure for timely reporting of HIV diagnosis and linkage and services for patients and partners to further curb the spread of HIV.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision to staff serving in the role of Public Health Advisor, including case reviews and case management.
• Conduct supplemental case investigation and partner services for assigned Public Health Advisors.
• Interview HIV-diagnosed persons to elicit HIV-exposed partners, locate and notify partners, and conduct HIV, HCV, and syphilis rapid testing in mobile settings to notified partners.
• Connect persons with a new HIV diagnosis to clinical care.
• Use HIV transmission network data to identify and reach out to not in care persons, including contact tracing.
• Connect persons who are not in HIV care with HIV clinical care providers.
• Trace and locate HIV-diagnosed persons who are out-of-care and connect them to clinical care.
• Engage HIV-diagnosed persons and their partners with HIV prevention and ancillary services.
• Link HIV-negative partners to PrEP providers for evaluation and counseling.
• Collect data on HIV cases to fulfill surveillance and case investigation data requirements, including record review, patient and provider interviews.
• Serve in an activated role and reassigned to work related to NYC Health Department response to disease outbreaks or serving in an emergency role within Surveillance/Epidemiology or Clinical Operations groups.
• Conduct patient and provider interview, medical record review during disease outbreaks or emergency response to collect surveillance and case investigation data requirements.
• Conduct contact tracing and notification efforts during disease outbreaks.

Why you should work for us

• Benefits: City employees are entitled to unmatched benefits such as:

• o a premium-free health insurance plan that saves employees over $10K annually, per a 2024 assessment.
• o additional health, fitness, and financial benefits may be available based on the position's associated union/benefit fund.
• o a public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
• o a tax-deferred savings program and o a robust Worksite Wellness Program that offers resources and opportunities to keep you healthy while serving New Yorkers.

• Work From Home Policy: Depending on your position, you may be able to work up to two days during the week from home.
• Job Security - you could enjoy more job security compared to private sector employment and be able to contribute to making NYC a healthy place to live and work.

Additional information

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the U.S., dedicated to protecting and improving the health of NYC.

We provide a wide array of 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 social justice initiatives.

As the primary population health strategist and policy authority for NYC, with a rich history of public health initiatives and scientific advancements, from addressing the 1822 yellow fever outbreak to the COVID-19 pandemic, we serve as a global leader in public health innovation and expertise.

Come join us and help to continue our efforts in making a difference in the lives of all New Yorkers!

Qualifications & Requirements

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, 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
• An associate degree from an accredited college, 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
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and six years of experience as described in "1" above, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; or
• 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, and a minimum of two years of experience, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity, as described in "1" above.