PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER B-SES

Public Health Services Manager B-SesThis is an internal promotional opportunity only. Only current Department of Health employees will be considered. This position is responsible for program management and oversight of the Epidemiology Program in the Disease Control Division, including lead prevention and healthcare-acquired infections. This includes complex technical, analytical, and consultative work which involves disease surveillance, assessment, management, analysis, and program planning in Pinellas County.Your specific responsibilities include maintaining adequate records of essential information relevant to the communicable disease investigation, conducting or participating in communicable disease alerts as necessary to contain the spread of communicable diseases, collaborating with infection control practitioners in hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities for the identification, investigation, and control of infectious diseases, preparing surveillance reports, data summaries, and other written documentation for publication, presentation, or dissemination, coordinating with the Surveillance Program to create graphs/charts to illustrate data, conducting studies and investigations related to outbreaks of public health significance, ensuring data entry, analysis, and evaluation for the prevention and control of communicable diseases including but not limited to: food borne and waterborne illnesses and general infectious diseases, including influenza (seasonal and pandemic), collecting and transmitting appropriate laboratory specimens for diagnostic study, monitoring clients and susceptible clients during potentially infectious period or period of probably onset for proper follow-up on control measures, providing monitoring, evaluation, quality assurance and timeliness checks of program's performance and compliance with appropriate statutes, Program Office and CDC, ensuring the DOH-Pinellas "on-call" response has accurate and timely information in all matters relating to this function, working with the immunization program on vaccine management for vaccine preventable diseases, working on rabies investigations and ensuring appropriate pre or post-exposure prophylaxis is administered, if needed, ensuring standard operating policies and procedures for the program are up to date and accurate, supervising and providing technical assistance to direct reports dedicated to maintaining infection control protocols, investigating Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) and Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR), as needed, providing oversight and assistance to lead poisoning prevention epidemiologists, ensuring routine outreach to conduct lead poisoning screening and provide education to high-risk individuals, identifying barriers and developing innovative approaches to improve lead poisoning investigation and prevention activities, conducting routine budget management activities and assisting with program contract development and monitoring, as needed, working with the preparedness program for any emergency situation, providing heightened response to emerging threats, maintaining communication with medical staff and the Director's office for high profile or complex cases, providing appropriate information to the public, special constituencies, and populations at increased risk through health education and risk reduction projects, analyzing and interpreting epidemiologic information from various sources to determine trends, establish existence of an epidemic, assess human health risk to disease agents, and/or formulate appropriate prevention control measures, making timely decisions, if necessary, to protect the public's health, providing technical expertise to residents, visitors and professional level leaders within the community on a regular basis and participating as a member of the Pinellas County Health Department public health response team, providing back up to other members of the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection as assigned to an operations level, this may include but is not limited to: Direct Observed Therapy (DOT), outreach efforts, immunization clinics, disease investigations and traveler monitoring, acquiring training hours in accordance with the FDOH-Pinellas Training Policy (these trainings may include, but are not limited to, the approved CEU courses, leading program budget activities including planning, preparation, purchasing and tracking, accurately tracking, recording, and reporting time and attendance in accordance with FDOH-Pinellas / Division policies and procedures, performing other related duties as assigned.Required knowledge, skills, and abilities include knowledge of principles of epidemiology, knowledge of state statutes and laws regarding disease reporting, knowledge of methods of data collection and analysis, ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others, ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments, ability to communicate verbally and in writing, ability to operate computer and software programs such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, ability to develop manuals, policies, procedures, standards, and rules.Qualifications include minimum of at least two years of experience working within an Epidemiology Program with responsibilities, including reporting and investigating diseases, must have a valid Florida driver's license, preferred: master's degree in public health or equivalent, 3-years of experience in investigating high-profile diseases and coordinating outbreak efforts, 3-years of experience in providing education and/or training to community audiences, budget management experience.