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Job Description
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) houses the Tuberculosis (TB) Chest Clinics and the Sexual Health Clinics (SHC). TB clinics play an integral role in the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB) in New York City while the SHC promotes a healthy community by providing New Yorkers with the resources needed to make informed and empowered sexual health decisions. The TB unit does this by supporting patients through patient education, doing directly observed therapy to ensure treatment success and conducting home visits for patients with difficulties coming to clinic. SHC help to identify and treat STIs, provide STI and HIV Prevention and general sexual health services regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. X-Ray Technicians services (taking radiographic images) are critical in the early diagnosis of patients with infectious tuberculosis. The X-rays they take help to inform doctors diagnoses, decision making, and initiation of appropriate therapy for TB infection and disease. BPHC requests approval to hire a part-time X Ray Technician, Level II position.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Take X-ray per order from a licensed physician using the principle of ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable).
Prepare and positions patients for taking X-Ray pictures according to standard procedures or as prescribed by a physician.
Execute the proper digital radiography (DR) and synapse protocols.
Complete patients' X-ray by correctly using radiation equipment.
Maintain safety procedures for X-ray equipment.
Maintain the DR an X-ray equipment before and after use.
Effectively assess patient's information or status.
Use standard procedures to identify the correct patient using at least to identifier (full name, DOB, etc.); inputs or corrects demographics data in RIS.
Perform daily quality control and quality assurance at assigned X-ray suites.
Use PACS/RIS to process patients and X-rays.
Work independently the song ordinary problems and assign X-ray Smith.
Create service request tickets to IT or PACS/RIS vendors as needed.
Qualifications
A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and a valid license as a General Radiological Technologist issued by the State of New York. This license must be maintained for the duration of employment in this title.
NOTES:
1. For appointment to Assignment Level III, in addition to meeting the above
requirement, all candidates must have two years of satisfactory, full-time
experience as an X-Ray Technician, which must have been in a supervisory
capacity.
2. For assignment to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner only, one year of
satisfactory full-time experience operating X-Ray apparatus and auxiliary
equipment may be substituted for the above-cited license.
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
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) houses the Tuberculosis (TB) Chest Clinics and the Sexual Health Clinics (SHC). TB clinics play an integral role in the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB) in New York City while the SHC promotes a healthy community by providing New Yorkers with the resources needed to make informed and empowered sexual health decisions. The TB unit does this by supporting patients through patient education, doing directly observed therapy to ensure treatment success and conducting home visits for patients with difficulties coming to clinic. SHC help to identify and treat STIs, provide STI and HIV Prevention and general sexual health services regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. X-Ray Technicians services (taking radiographic images) are critical in the early diagnosis of patients with infectious tuberculosis. The X-rays they take help to inform doctors diagnoses, decision making, and initiation of appropriate therapy for TB infection and disease. BPHC requests approval to hire a part-time X Ray Technician, Level II position.
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Take X-ray per order from a licensed physician using the principle of ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable).
Prepare and positions patients for taking X-Ray pictures according to standard procedures or as prescribed by a physician.
Execute the proper digital radiography (DR) and synapse protocols.
Complete patients' X-ray by correctly using radiation equipment.
Maintain safety procedures for X-ray equipment.
Maintain the DR an X-ray equipment before and after use.
Effectively assess patient's information or status.
Use standard procedures to identify the correct patient using at least to identifier (full name, DOB, etc.); inputs or corrects demographics data in RIS.
Perform daily quality control and quality assurance at assigned X-ray suites.
Use PACS/RIS to process patients and X-rays.
Work independently the song ordinary problems and assign X-ray Smith.
Create service request tickets to IT or PACS/RIS vendors as needed.
Qualifications
A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and a valid license as a General Radiological Technologist issued by the State of New York. This license must be maintained for the duration of employment in this title.
NOTES:
1. For appointment to Assignment Level III, in addition to meeting the above
requirement, all candidates must have two years of satisfactory, full-time
experience as an X-Ray Technician, which must have been in a supervisory
capacity.
2. For assignment to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner only, one year of
satisfactory full-time experience operating X-Ray apparatus and auxiliary
equipment may be substituted for the above-cited license.
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.
