Registered Environmental Health Specialist

Greene County Public Health is seeking a Registered Environmental Health Specialist or Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training

Department: Environmental Health & Plumbing

Job Status: Full Time 

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt 

Reports To: Environmental Health Program Manager

Grade/Level: C42/C43

Amount of Travel Required: 50-80%

Job Type: Regular 

Positions Supervised: None

Work Schedule: 8 am - 4 pm, M-F, with one-hour unpaid lunch. Adjustments to schedule with supervisor approval. Evenings and weekends as required. Work hours, days and times will vary based on work requirements.

Compensation: 

Registered Environmental Health Specialist - $25.97 to $31.48 hourly

Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training - $24.81 to $30.17 hourly

POSITION SUMMARY:

Registered Environmental Health Specialist - Under general supervision of the Environmental Health Program Manager provides environmental health services and inspections.

Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training - Under supervision of a registered environmental health specialist receives on-the-job training performing routine inspections, sampling, and vector control duties in Environmental Health Programs.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Timely, regular, and consistent attendance.

• Project a positive and professional Provide respectful customer service to external and internal clients.
• Contribute to assessments of community health status and factors influencing health in the community including intervention as needed.
• Interview people to obtain information; handle complaints, inquiries, and emergencies as required by program and health district protocol; and represent the health district in a positive manner to the public by demonstrating professional and respectful customer service.
• Provide environmental health information to others either through formal training or informal communication in the most effective manner for that individual or group; distribute educational pamphlets, brochures, and booklets to the public; and utilize various types of communication to convey environmental health information.
• Collaborate with community partners to improve health in the community (e.g., participate in committees, share environmental health data and information, and connect people to resources).
• Utilize appropriate methods for interacting effectively and professionally with people of all ages and from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, lifestyles, and physical abilities.
• Follow health district safety policies and procedures; maintain confidentiality requirements in accordance with health district policy; and maintain all required licenses and/or certificates.
• Engage in a variety of training activities to develop knowledge and skills to perform public health enforcement activities and to conduct thorough inspections and complete concise reports on inspections; attend formal environmental health training courses conducted by local, state, federal, and university agencies; attend agency, public, and professional environmental health meetings; participate in formal self-study programs.
• Perform routine and complex inspections, testing, sampling, and plan review in environmental health programs which may include but not limited to food service operations and retail food establishments, vending, schools, parks, camps, swimming pools and spas, housing, sewage treatment systems, land septage application, private water/wells, solid waste disposal, construction and demolition debris landfills, refuse hauling and/or septage hauling vehicles, vector and rabies control; investigate foodborne or other illnesses and public health nuisances; conduct inspections of housing, water hauling vehicles, body art/body piercing establishments; collect water and effluent samples; perform routine tests according to established health district policy and procedures to enforce state and local laws, and rules and regulations.
• Complete independently written inspection reports and investigation summaries in all environmental health programs; complete routine reports, itineraries, mileage reports, time records, etc., thoroughly, accurately, and timely.

• Use quality improvement (QI) and performance management (PM) processes and/or techniques to improve the effectiveness of environmental health programs and services including but not limited to creating, implementing, and evaluating performance standards and identifying, implementing, and assessing QI processes.
• Responsibilities include other duties as assigned including but not limited to Accreditation requirements and responding to emergency events.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree (four-year college or technical school): Required

Field of Study: Environmental Health/related science degree with minimum 45 quarter or 30 semester hours of science.

Experience:

Registered Environmental Health Specialist - 12 plus months of experience in public health, successful completion of the Registered Environmental Health Specialist credentialing exam.

Registered Environmental Health Specialist in Training - No prior experience necessary

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office required. Health District Information System (HDIS) obtained after hire.

License & Certifications:

Must possess and maintain a registration as an environmental health specialist as issued by the Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health and Radiation Protection in accordance with Ohio Revised Code.

Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.

Other Requirements:

National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS) 100, 200 and 700.a certification to be obtained within six (6) months of hire.

Ohio Department of Agriculture Applicator License to be obtained within twelve (12) months of hire .

COMPETENCIES/KNOWLEDGE-SKILLS-ABILITIES (KSA’s):

A. Public Health Tier: 1 – Front Line and Program Support Responsibilities

B. Organizational Competencies

All GCPH employees are expected to adhere to the mission of: Prevent disease, Promote health and wellness in Greene County and Protect the quality of our environment. In addition, all GCPH employees are expected to meet specified competencies in the following areas:

• Dependability: Demonstrates reliability and trustworthiness and being consistent in performance or behavior.
• Judgement: Ability to apply critical thinking, adapt to change and make evidence-based decisions or form opinions while maintaining ethical performance.
• Communication: Communicate in a respectful manner both written and orally, in person, and through electronic means, with linguistic and cultural proficiency.
• Customer Satisfaction: Ensure the health and safety of our community within my abilities and resources and treat our many, diverse customers with thoughtful listening and respect.
• Quality: Establish and maintain organizational capacity and resources to support continuous quality improvement.
• Equity: Ability to interact with clients, community partners, and co-workers with absence of unfair, avoidable, or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or by other dimensions of inequality.
• Inclusion: Demonstrates the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or intellectual disabilities and members of other minority groups.
• Community Partnership Skills: Works collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by special interest, geographic proximity, or similar situation to address issues affecting the well-being of our community
• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills: Ability to identify, collect and evaluate data as it affects the health of our community or population.

C. Job Specific Competencies

Descriptions of each competency can be found at:

2021 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (phf.org)

• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills: (1.1T1, 1.2T1, 1.3T1, 1.4T1, 1.5T1, 1.6T1, 1.7T1, 1.8T1)
• Policy Development and Program Planning Skills: (2.1T1, 2.2T1, 2.3T1, 2.4T1, 2.5T1, 2.6T1, 2.7T1)
• Communication Skills: (3.1T1, 3.2T1, 3.3T1, 3.4T1)
• Health Equity Skills: (4.1T1, 4.2T1, 4.3T1, 4.4T1, 4.5T1, 4.6T1, 4.7T1)
• Community Partnership Skills: (5.1T1, 5.2T1, 5.3T1, 5.4T1, 5.5T1)
• Public Health Sciences Skills: (6.1T1, 6.2T1, 6.3T1, 6.4T1)
• Management and Finance Skills: (7.1T1, 7.2T1, 7.3T1, 7.4T1, 7.5T1, 7.6T1, 7.7T1, 7.8T1, 7.9T1, 7.10T1, 7.11T1, 7.12T1, 7.13T1)
• Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills: (8.1T1, 8.2T1, 8.3T1, 8.4T1, 8.5T1, 8.6T1, 8.7T1, 8.8T1)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

N (Not Applicable) - Activity is not applicable to this position.

O (Occasionally) - Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5 hrs./day)

F (Frequently) - Position requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.5 hrs./day)

C (Constantly) - Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5 hrs./day)

Physical Demands

Stand - C

Walk - F

Sit - F

Manually Manipulate - C

Reach Outward - F

Reach Above Shoulder - F

Climb - O

Crawl - O

Squat or kneel - F

Grasp - C

Speak - C

Lift/Carry

10 lbs. or less - F

11-20 lbs. - F

21-50 lbs. - O

51-100 lbs. - O

Over 100 lbs. - O

Push/Pull

12 lbs. or less - F

13-25 lbs. - O

26-40 lbs. - O

41-100 lbs. - O

50 pounds or more you may request assistance.

Other Physical Requirements

• Vision (Near, Distance, Color)
• Sense of Sound – Sufficient to communicate in-person, in the field, and on the telephone
• Sense of smell
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – Glasses and gloves
• Sense of balance

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The employee may be exposed to, must negotiate, use, or work in the vicinity of: materials containing asbestos or other hazardous materials (e.g., mold); hot, cold, humid, or windy weather conditions; extreme non-weather related heat or cold; radiant energy; upset or emotionally distraught individuals; potentially dangerous/fatal infectious diseases; open flames, boiling liquid, hot grease, and other commercial kitchen hazards; sharp kitchen instruments; hazardous driving conditions; bleach, disinfectants, and other industrial cleaning solutions; chlorine and other pool maintenance chemicals; raw sewage, human waste, and other unsanitary materials; heavy equipment, trenches, ditches, and other excavations; ladders, stairs, or scaffolds; environmental conditions which may result in injury from fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, and/or poorly ventilated work areas; crowds; vector borne diseases, ticks, and mosquitoes; potentially vicious and rabid animals and their bodily fluids.

Contact Information:

For general questions regarding the position, please contact:

Evan Dillahunt

(937) 374-5620

edillahunt@gcph.info

The deadline to apply for this position is 4:00 PM on Friday, April 19, 2024