Public Health Inspector, Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation
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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.
The
Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) protects the
public, including New York's most vulnerable citizens from a broad
range of hazards that may pose a threat to health or
safety. This
includes hazards related to food safety wherever meals are served to
the public, including restaurants, school cafeterias, mobile food
vending carts, senior centers and soup kitchens,
firsthand and
second-hand smoke for all places of employment and public spaces.
BFSCS also monitors compliance with regulations in other facilities,
such as tattoo parlors, correctional facilities, and homeless
shelters. Additionally, BFSCS investigates environmental health
complaints received from New York City residents.
Duties will
include but not be limited to:
- Making periodic inspections of
commercial and social service establishments, to include but not
limited to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, adult entertainment
establishments, hookah bars, mobile food vending carts, commissaries,
bakeries, homeless shelters, senior centers, correctional facilities,
schools to review compliance with the New York City Health Code and
other public health regulations to ensure they have a safe and
wholesome food supply.
- Enforcing provisions of Smoke-Free Air
Act, Tobacco Product Regulation Act, and other tobacco free related
regulations aim at creating a smoke-free environment and reducing
access of tobacco products to minors.
- Reviewing menu and menu
boards to observe compliance with nutritional requirements aid at
reducing and combating chronic diseases and obesity.
- Preparing
inspection reports using handheld computers. Preparing and serving
court summonses when specific violations of applicable City, State
laws and regulations are found.
- Enforce anti-corruption control
policies.
- Testifying at Office of Trials and Hearings, and other
courts when required.
- Traveling throughout the five boroughs
using mass transit.
**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 Driver’s 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 posting’s “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 on-boarding
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
Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.
"FINAL
APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL”
Qualifications
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited
college, including or supplemented by 30 semester credits in the
physical and/or biological sciences, i.e., biology, botany, chemistry,
geology, physics, physiology, and zoology; of which not more than 12
credit hours may be in the applied sciences, i.e., environmental
technology, sanitation technology, medical technology, public health,
infection control or food service; or
2. An associate degree
from an accredited college, with 15 semester credits in the physical
and/or biological sciences, of which not more than 6 credit hours may
be in the applied sciences, and 5 years of experience as a public
health technician assisting sanitarians and engineers in carrying out
the various elements of prevention and control programs affecting the
public’s health.
Medical Requirement: Medical guidelines have
been established for the position of Public Health Sanitarian.
Candidates will be examined to determine whether they can perform the
essential functions of the position of Public Health Sanitarian. Where
appropriate, a reasonable accommodation will be provided for a person
with a disability to enable him or her to take the examination, and
/or to perform the essential functions of the job.
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.