Public Health Program Representative - STI/HIV

About the role

This is work of a professional nature designed to do work planning, promoting public health initiatives, implementing public health programming and evaluating program activities and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Performs investigations in Allegheny County and ensures treatment for individuals who have been at risk for chronic or communicable diseases.
• Enters demographic and other related patient information into data collection systems.
• Performs required record searches.
• Disseminates instructional and informational material on disease control to the general public, and private agencies, which may involve one-on-one education sessions.
• Performs investigative field work to bring to medical evaluation and treatment, or return to treatment, patients at risk of having a chronic or communicable disease or patients who have lapsed from a treatment regime.
• Follows up with patients to ensure compliance with a treatment regime and reports on the efficacy of the treatment regime. Complex cases are investigated in collaboration with the Public Health Program Representative Supervisor.
• Locates patients exposed to, or who have, a chronic or communicable disease, and refers them and their contacts to an appropriate facility for treatment.
• Counsels patients to take appropriate precautions to halt the spread of disease and avoid the complications of untreated infections.
• Completes mandated disease reporting and analyzes medical and epidemiological information for all cases.
• May perform pre- and post-test counseling and testing of those requesting screening for particular communicable diseases.
• Responds to Public Health emergencies as assigned by the Health Department.
• Performs other duties as required or requested.

Requirements

Residency: Allegheny County within 1 year.

Veterans' Preference: Will be awarded to eligible candidates.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a four-year college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Community Health, Behavioral Sciences, Communications, Education, Criminal Justice, Social/Human Health/Social Work or a closely related field
• One year of field experience in case management and/or community outreach with diverse populations
• Necessary Special Requirement: Possession of a valid automobile operator's license and the use of an automobile during work hours. You must be able to provide your own transportation to and from the various worksites throughout Allegheny County. You will be required to travel.

Skills

• Principles and methods of individual and group counseling.
• State regulations for disease control.
• Chronic and communicable diseases and methods for screening, detecting, and eradicating communicable diseases.
• Basic medical terms and terminology.
• Basic principles of computer use, data searches, internet searches, email use.
• Interpersonal Communication
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Community Engagement
• Family Caregiving
• Team Building
• Report Writing
• Data Entry
• Public Health
• Microsoft Office

Benefits

Fringe Benefits:

• Paid holidays, personal days, vacation and sick leave benefits, medical coverage and dental benefits, a retirement plan, life insurance and a deferred compensation plan after eligibility requirements have been met.

Perks Working for ACHD:

• Professional growth through training opportunities (CPR, First AID, Public Health Preparedness, Dignity and Respect, Points of Dispensing, and more); ability to advance in county system; job security; meaningfulness in daily work derived from public service; eligible for federal loan forgiveness; organizational commitment to ACHD’s mission to protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Allegheny County residents, particularly the most vulnerable.

Pay

Hourly: $21.85 || Annual: $45,457.36

Schedule

Full-time, Entry level position. Grant funded positions are contingent upon grant funding.