Public Health Clinic Nurse Part-Time Bureau of Public Health Clinics

Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are how old they are where they are from or where they live.

As a worldrenowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge and responding to urgent public health crises from New York Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation expertise and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist and policy and planning authority for the City of New York while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy including programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated disease including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racisms impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021 the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance antiracist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power opportunity and access the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

Program and Job Description:

The mission of the Bureau of Public Health Clinics (PHC) is to promote a healthy community by providing New Yorkers with the resources needed to make informed and empowered health decisions; identify and treat tuberculosis and provide immunization and sexual health services regardless of ability to pay or immigration status.

The Bureau of Public Health Clinics seeks to hire a Consultant Public Health Nurse for the Abortion Access Initiative.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

*Provide a welcoming and efficient introduction to the STD and or TB clinics.

*Adhere to the Nursing Code of Ethics exhibiting high standards of nursing practice promoting a safe and ethical work environment practicing with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity worth and unique attributes of every person.

*Promote advocate for and protect the rights health and safety of the patient.

*Provide highquality patientcentered care in the BPHC clinics by providing patient support assessment medication administration and education on several diseases such as but no limited to gonorrhea chlamydia syphilis HIV Monkey Pox and TB.

*Assist with patient care regarding medication abortion services including rotating between the clinic care and the Telemedicine hotline to answer questions about and to provide medical and gestational age triage for medication abortion.

*Conduct brief but sensitive problemfocused medical interviews including sexual history and questions regarding sexual orientation.

*Obtain demographic data on all patients.

*Make determination as to patients care needs based on chief complaints symptoms medical history and/or test results.

*Provide hard copies intake forms for review by clinicians counselors and social workers.

*When necessary accommodate partnerrelated concerns.

*Perform casefinding activities; counsels refers and follows up on cases.

*Serve as a consultant on health matters to other professionals paraprofessionals and the community.

*Supervise the activities of assigned Public Health Nurses and other assigned staff.

*In the temporary absence of the supervisor may be assigned to perform some of the duties of that position.

**IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL CANDIDATES:

Please note: If you are called for an interview you will be required to bring to your interview copies of original documentation such as:
A document that establishes identity for employment eligibility such as: A Valid U.S. Passport Permanent Resident Card/Green Card or Drivers license.

Proof of Education according to the education requirements of the civil service title.

Current Resume

Proof of Address/NYC Residency dated within the last 60 days such as: Recent Utility Bill (i.e. Telephone Cable Mobile Phone)

Additional documentation may be required to evaluate your qualification as outlined in this postings Minimum Qualification Requirements section. Examples of additional documentation may be but not limited to: college transcript experience verification or professional trade licenses.

If after your interview you are the selected candidate you will be contacted to schedule an onboarding appointment. By the time of this appointment you will be asked to produce the originals of the above documents along with your original Social Security card.

**LOAN FORGIVENESS

As a prospective employee of the City of New York you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information please visit the U.S. Department of Educations website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL

Qualifications :

1. A valid New York State license as a Registered Nurse a baccalaureate degree in Nursing from an accredited college and a masters degree from an accredited college in Nursing Public Health or a related field plus two years of relevant experience in public health or hospital nursing in the field of mental hygiene communicable diseases child health school health hospital services rehabilitation and/or nursing education; one year of which must have been in a supervisory administrative consultative or educational capacity; or
2. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 above. However all candidates must have a valid New York State license as a Registered Nurse a baccalaureate degree in Nursing from an accredited college and the one year of supervisory administrative consultative or educational experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Parttime