Job offer: Public Health Inspector - Clarendon Health Department


Announced
23/11/20242 month(s) ago
Job Status
Full Time
Job Type
Employee
Expiration Date
23/02/2025 60 days left
Job Location
Clarendon
Job Title
Public Health Inspector - Clarendon Health Department
Job Presentation
OrganisationSouthern Regional Health Authority, JamaicaReferenceVAC-54794Contract TypeFull-TimeIndustriesHealthcare & MedicalLocationClarendonSalary & Benefits$3,241,533 - $3,853,164 per annumDate Posted21/11/2024Expiry Date06/12/2024The successful incumbent will be responsible for managing public health inspection services within a prescribed geographical area to ensure compliance with public health laws and regulations.

 

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Health 
  • Licensed with the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM)
  • Completion of internship programme 

 

Required Knowledge and Skills:

Core: 

  • Oral communication skills 
  • Written Communication Skills 
  • Teamwork 
  • Time management 
  • Judgement 
  • Initiative 
  • Customer & Quality Focus 
  • Problem Solving & Decision making 

Technical: 

  • Knowledge of the principles and practices of public health. 
  • Knowledge of the environmental science and preventive medicine. 
  • Knowledge of public health laws and regulations. 
  • Knowledge of public health law and other regulations relating to public health and ability to interpret and apply them to health sanitation. 
  • Knowledge of new trends and developments in public health. 
  • Knowledge of the Jamaican society, culture and communities. 
  • Ability to set professional standards, motivate staff, maintain satisfactory relationships with staff, the community, and other health workers. 
  • Ability to recognize hazardous sanitation practises and implement remedial action. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Making routine visits to food service and processing facilities, bars and other retail food establishments to determine that foods are properly handled, stored and refrigerated.
  • Inspecting schools, nursing homes, hotels, barber-shops and other service establishments and dwellings for compliance with standard sanitation practices and public health laws.
  • Investigating reports and complaints of insanitary conditions, or contaminated food or water and initiates action for control, eradication or disposal. 
  • Discussing local public health problems with relevant authorities and supplies information and advice on public and private water supply, sewage and refuse disposal.
  • Promoting public and environmental health programmes; distributes literature on sanitation and environmental health hazards, gives lectures to students and civic groups; interprets regulations. 
  • Conducting investigations into communicable, food and meat borne diseases; and reports to relevant authorities for remedial action; compiles reports and statistics.
  • Inspecting meat and issuing certification for sale to consumers. 
  • Participating in immunization and spraying and eradication campaigns in outbreaks of epidemics and disasters. 
  • Enforcing public health regulations by serving notices and instituting prosecutions.
  • Preparing and submitting weekly and monthly reports. 
  • Conducting surveys in communities and implement programmes to address public health issues. 
  • Participating in the control of pandemics, epidemics and disasters. 
  • Supervising vector control workers, environmental health workers and National Youth Service (NYS) workers. 
  • Promoting sanitation education and interest in improve health standards.
  • Exercising tact in the execution of duties. 

 

 

 

 

NB. ONLY SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED


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