Point of Dispensing Planning Coordinator

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Full-Time Professional DOH - LIC, Long Island City, NY, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,145.00 To $80,145.00 Annually

Company 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 Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) is a grant program that prepares the healthcare delivery system to save lives during emergencies that exceed the day-to-day capacity of healthcare and emergency response systems. This program enables the formation of public-private partnerships among multiple types of healthcare, public health, and emergency management organizations through healthcare coalitions (HCCs), which are networks of individual public and private healthcare and response organizations partnering to conduct preparedness activities and collaborating to ensure each member has what it needs to respond to disasters and emergencies.

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 work be supervised by DOHMH.
This is a grant-funded position.

Division Overview:

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 Emergency Field Operations builds effective, flexible public health emergency field response infrastructure by developing and maintaining scenario-specific and all-hazards plans, building, maintaining, and documenting the logistics, operational, training and staffing capacity to support and execute those plans, and engaging in continuous quality improvement.

The POD Planner's role will support preparedness for biological incidents requiring the rapid dispensing of medications to the public. This includes working with the healthcare system to ensure clients requiring alternative medications are referred to the appropriate healthcare providers.

Job Description:

DOHMH has an opening for a Point of Dispensing (POD) Planner, reporting to the Mass Prophylaxis Plan Manager, within the Planning and Training Unit, to lead the refinement of POD operational materials to respond to public health emergencies requiring the rapid dispensing of medications to the public.

This position will

Duties:

• Further develop POD Planning and Operational Documents, including the POD Procedure Guides, POD site manuals and other POD operational materials to respond to public health emergencies requiring rapid dispensing of medications to the public.
• Support the Emergency Field Operations Training Program by serving as a Subject Matter Expert and Lead Facilitator for POD- specific trainings.
• Assist the Field Operations Training Team in creating, updating and maintaining training resources including facilitator guides and online training content.
• Coordinate with internal and external partners and vendors to support citywide public health emergency preparedness efforts.
• Respond to public health emergencies in the Citywide Health Emergency Field Operations Section and respond in other roles, as needed, for OEPR-led responses or ice activations…