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Job Description
This is a 5 days per week job (35:00 hours) in addition to at least one Saturday per month (5:00 hours).
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 world-renowned 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 City's yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 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, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.
Our Agency's five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:
1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a "response-ready" organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related 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 women's health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change
Our 7,000-plus 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 racism's 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 anti-racist 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 Bureau of Public Health Clinics (BPHC) has the mission of improving the sexual heath of all New Yorkers. To achieve this the Bureau provides direct clinic services to people seeking sexual health care, and services to sex partners. The BPHC operates 8 STI clinics throughout New York City (NYC). The Bureau seeks to hire a Nurse Practitioner assignment level III.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Serve as a clinician within the BPHC clinic setting and/or on the telemedicine hotline under the supervision of the physician in charge of that clinic or the hotline.
Conduct contraception method counseling and medically clearing patients for who are interested in the quick start contraception.
Dispense contraception methods accordingly.
Rotate between clinic for hands-on provision of LARC insertions and removals and telemedicine for contraception counseling.
Provide counseling and follow up for medication abortion on the sexual health Telemedicine hotline.
Obtain consent and dispensing medication for medication abortions in the clinics for both appointment and walk-in patients.
Provide direct clinical care to patients infected with HIV or at high risk for exposure to HIV.
Take patient medical history and perform physical examinations.
Provide diagnosis and initiating HIV therapy, PrEP or PEP as part of a strategy to treat individuals immediately, at the time of service.
Obtain patient medical sexual history.
Conduct patient physical examinations and treatment of patients in the STI clinics.
Provide referrals to clinics for other services as needed.
Patient care management will include medication, vaccines dispensing and counseling on the prevention of STI's.
Adhere to Bureau Standards for productivity.
Work closely with PrEP Navigators, Mental Health Specialists and HIV Case Managers to provide comprehensive psychosocial and behavioral care.
Provide health education to patients.
Direct and assist in precepting of Nurse Practitioners and other health care professionals.
Qualifications
1. A valid New York State License and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse; and
2. Completion of a Nurse Practitioner or equivalent program registered or approved by the New York State Education Department, or current certification as a Nurse Practitioner by a national certifying body recognized by the New York State Education Department.
3. To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, a certificate to prescribe medication issued by the New York State Education Department and one year of satisfactory experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
4. To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level III, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, a certificate to prescribe medication issued by the New York State Education Department and two years of satisfactory experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
Job Description
This is a 5 days per week job (35:00 hours) in addition to at least one Saturday per month (5:00 hours).
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 world-renowned 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 City's yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 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, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.
Our Agency's five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:
1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a "response-ready" organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related 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 women's health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change
Our 7,000-plus 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 racism's 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 anti-racist 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 Bureau of Public Health Clinics (BPHC) has the mission of improving the sexual heath of all New Yorkers. To achieve this the Bureau provides direct clinic services to people seeking sexual health care, and services to sex partners. The BPHC operates 8 STI clinics throughout New York City (NYC). The Bureau seeks to hire a Nurse Practitioner assignment level III.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Serve as a clinician within the BPHC clinic setting and/or on the telemedicine hotline under the supervision of the physician in charge of that clinic or the hotline.
Conduct contraception method counseling and medically clearing patients for who are interested in the quick start contraception.
Dispense contraception methods accordingly.
Rotate between clinic for hands-on provision of LARC insertions and removals and telemedicine for contraception counseling.
Provide counseling and follow up for medication abortion on the sexual health Telemedicine hotline.
Obtain consent and dispensing medication for medication abortions in the clinics for both appointment and walk-in patients.
Provide direct clinical care to patients infected with HIV or at high risk for exposure to HIV.
Take patient medical history and perform physical examinations.
Provide diagnosis and initiating HIV therapy, PrEP or PEP as part of a strategy to treat individuals immediately, at the time of service.
Obtain patient medical sexual history.
Conduct patient physical examinations and treatment of patients in the STI clinics.
Provide referrals to clinics for other services as needed.
Patient care management will include medication, vaccines dispensing and counseling on the prevention of STI's.
Adhere to Bureau Standards for productivity.
Work closely with PrEP Navigators, Mental Health Specialists and HIV Case Managers to provide comprehensive psychosocial and behavioral care.
Provide health education to patients.
Direct and assist in precepting of Nurse Practitioners and other health care professionals.
Qualifications
1. A valid New York State License and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse; and
2. Completion of a Nurse Practitioner or equivalent program registered or approved by the New York State Education Department, or current certification as a Nurse Practitioner by a national certifying body recognized by the New York State Education Department.
3. To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, a certificate to prescribe medication issued by the New York State Education Department and one year of satisfactory experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
4. To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level III, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, a certificate to prescribe medication issued by the New York State Education Department and two years of satisfactory experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
