Public Health and Prevention Specialist V

About the role

This role works with healthcare and public health leaders on acute, sensitive, and high profile activities, thus must be professional, poised, productive, and produce accurate reports and data under pressure, and independently motivated to be a strong steward for the State of Texas.

Responsibilities

• (30%) Develops, advises and interprets policies, procedures, legislation, grant strategies, and regulations related to healthcare safety.
• (30%) In collaboration with internal and external partners, creates, develops, presents, and distributes training materials and tools for public health and healthcare partners related to healthcare safety.
• (20%) Contributes to projects to enhance, update, and/or data reporting systems and processes (the Texas-specific system is called "TxHSN").
• (15%) Collects, organizes, analyzes, and prepares high quality, technically written communications, reports, and reviews.
• (5%) Other duties as assigned: include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disease outbreaks, disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in public health, healthcare, nursing, human services, or related field or higher with at least 2 years of work experience in a public health agency, healthcare setting, or academics;
• At least 1 year of professional work experience in data entry or database management.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of healthcare, public health, and/or healthcare safety and quality principles.
• Knowledge of accessibility and plain language principles and requirements.
• Knowledge of public health and/or healthcare quality priorities.
• Knowledge of CDC, Texas, healthcare, and/or public health reporting and/or data management.
• Knowledge of public entity operating procedures, guidelines, and processes.
• Knowledge of scientific or technical writing and presentation guidelines.
• Establish goals and objectives and coordinate the achievement of established goals and objectives.
• Interpersonal relationships and establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Independently coordinate solutions and complex problem solving.
• Expertly written technical or scientific analyses, documentation, and reports.
• Identify problems, evaluate alternatives, and negotiate and implement solutions.
• Translate complex technical information verbally and in writing for non-technical audiences.
• Develop, test, maintain, troubleshoot large data systems.
• Plan, organize, schedule and monitor completion of assigned projects.
• Develop and evaluate policies and procedures.
• Use personal computers and use Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Exercise independent judgment, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Identify problems and develop creative solutions.
• Create concise, well-written communications, documents, briefing documents, and reports.
• Organize and present complex information to a variety of audiences verbally and in writing.
• Communicate clearly, concisely and effectively.
• Work effectively as a team member with regional and local health department personnel and private sector health care professionals.
• Analyze systems and procedures.
• Gather, assemble, correlate, and analyze information.
• Work independently and deliver results in an environment of broad, consultative management.

Skills

• Establish goals and objectives and coordinate the achievement of established goals and objectives.
• Interpersonal relationships and establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Independently coordinate solutions and complex problem solving.
• Expertly written technical or scientific analyses, documentation, and reports.
• Identify problems, evaluate alternatives, and negotiate and implement solutions.
• Translate complex technical information verbally and in writing for non-technical audiences.
• Develop, test, maintain, troubleshoot large data systems.
• Plan, organize, schedule and monitor completion of assigned projects.
• Develop and evaluate policies and procedures.
• Use personal computers and use Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Exercise independent judgment, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Identify problems and develop creative solutions.
• Create concise, well-written communications, documents, briefing documents, and reports.
• Organize and present complex information to a variety of audiences verbally and in writing.
• Communicate clearly, concisely and effectively.
• Work effectively as a team member with regional and local health department personnel and private sector health care professionals.
• Analyze systems and procedures.
• Gather, assemble, correlate, and analyze information.
• Work independently and deliver results in an environment of broad, consultative management.