Job Information
City of New York Liaison for Community Based Organizations, Bureau of Public Health Clinics in New York, New York
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 mission of the Bureau of Public Health Clinics (BPHC) 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, provide immunizations, and sexual health services regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. To achieve this, BPHC provides direct clinical services at eight Sexual Health Clinics and three Tuberculosis Chest Centers; monitors disease trends; conducts outreach to providers and community groups; conducts research; and develops polices to improve sexual health and wellness and reduce racial inequities.
BPHC's Community Engagement Unit oversees all external-facing efforts in BPHC including community outreach and facilitation of educational workshop in order to reduce inequities in STI's and TB by ensuring communities most impacted by those conditions are utilizing these services available in their community.
The Bureau seeks to hire a Community Associate to serve as the Liaison for Community Based Organizations (CBOs).
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Promote clinic services to community through virtual and in-person meetings.
Conduct direct community outreach by conducting site visits to new and historical community partners and faith-based organizations and participating in tabling at events.
Coordinate with external partners, organizations, and other medical facilities to promote services.
Attend monthly or quarterly partnership meetings (NY Knows, community partnerships meetings, EtE etc.).
Maintain updated list of BPHC community partners and track all outreach activities and events in Public Health Partners Connect database.
Work with BPHC's Sexual Health Clinic Navigation Coordinators to identify and maintain referral relationships for the NYC Sexual Health Clinics through Memorandums of Understanding (MOU).
Maintain and track education material ordering for clinics.
Assist with identifying and coordinate speakers from CBOs for clinic meetings.
Lead clinic tours for external groups.
Coordinate technical assistance requests from community organizations with Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV & STI and provide training coverage when needed.
Represent BPHC on appropriate agency task force and coordination groups or meetings.
Help facilitate patient advisory board for BPHC programmatic feedback.
Contribute to a quarterly community clinical newsletter for BPHC's partners.
Assure that outreach activities align with agency's commitment to language justice and becoming an anti-racist institution that acknowledges our history, takes action to eliminate inequities, and protects and promotes the health of all New Yorkers.
Attend to other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
Qualification Requirements
High school graduation or equivalent and three years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to duties described above; or
Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
