BHCR Med Unit Nurse Specialist

Overview

With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and more than 7,000 employees throughout the five boroughs, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished.

The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team.

The selected candidate will be an employee of Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization which is the fiscal and administrative manager of the grant but will be supervised by DOHMH. This is a temporary grant-funded position ending June 30, 2025.

The Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) promotes DOHMH’s and NYC’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from health emergencies through the coordination of agency-wide emergency preparedness planning, training and exercises and through regular engagement with communities as well as city, state and federal partners. OEPR is responsible for ensuring DOHMH is in a constant state of readiness as well as preparing NYC’s healthcare system to respond to any type of emergency.

OEPR’s Bureau of Healthcare and Community Readiness (BHCR) streamlines external partner engagement to launch a synchronized approach to building local capacity to respond and recover from disasters through community engagement; healthcare coalition planning, technical assistance programming, and operations, to best align our efforts across sectors while strengthening situational awareness and information-sharing. This Bureau also works to coordinate across NYC and with NYS partners to develop a crisis standards of care framework, continuing to work on infectious disease preparedness and medical surge planning, and developing robust mechanisms for program evaluation for continuous improvement.

Leveraging technology, data and partner communications this bureau will support healthcare and community programs using preparedness and response applications, providing operational support for event coordination across 500+ healthcare and community partners.

DOHMH, as the recipient of an annual Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) grant award, partners and contracts with various health care sectors to increase the preparedness level of the overall healthcare system, including but not limited to: all NYC hospitals nursing homes and adult care facility associations, geographic based coalitions, and a number of subject matter expert coalitions such as the Pediatric Disaster Coalition.

The program also works to enhance systems level readiness by addressing jurisdictional planning and response gaps with healthcare partners and sister agencies at the city and state level.

The Clinical Readiness and Decision Support unit incorporates science and evidence base into the Agency’s approach to public health preparedness programming, policy, and strategy. This unit supports Citywide and Regional special pathogen and medical surge planning, implements analytic strategies to support decision-making and evaluates their impact for public health preparedness programs. They also provide clinical expertise and direction to healthcare and community readiness programs.

• Provide scientific and clinical support for the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) Bureau of Healthcare and Community Readiness (BHCR) programs and activities, including activities that support the NYC Health Care Coalition and NYC DOHMH Community Preparedness Program.
• Participate in DOHMH Incident Command System (ICS) in a leadership role in the Healthcare System Support Branch; support development of emergency response groups during preparedness phase by leading or contributing to planning, training, and exercises in order to ensure prepared and functional incident response.
• Lead development of a Pharmacy Preparedness Program to improve pharmacy partnerships and communications…