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 and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversee the City's response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (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 2,000 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 programs. 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, linkage and services for patients and partners to further curb the spread of HIV.

The ACE (Assess. Connect. Engage.) unit is housed in the HIV Epidemiology of the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, & STIs. The ACE unit staff are responsible for the provision of HIV partner services and linkage to care to HIV-diagnosed persons in New York City (NYC), including the collection, analysis, and dissemination of service data of participating patients. NYC has a large and diverse HIV epidemic, and analyses of partner and linkage to care service data in NYC inform public health policy at the local, state, and national levels.

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 a HIV 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.
-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 reassigned to work related to NYC Health Department response to disease outbreaks or serve 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.

-Benefits: City employees are entitled to unmatched benefits such as:
oa premium-free health insurance plan that saves employees over $10K annually, per a 2024 assessment.
oadditional health, fitness, and financial benefits may be available based on the position's associated union/benefit fund.
oa public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
oa tax-deferred savings program and
oa 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.

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Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, 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

2. An associate degree from an accredited college or university, 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

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and six years of experience as described in "1" above, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; or

4. A satisfactory combination of 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 approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, and a minimum of two years of experience, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity, as described in "1" above.