Kitsap Public Health District

Key Responsibilities

• • Coordinates with the Administrator to ensure the District is in compliance with applicable state laws and codes, and implementing Board ordinances, resolutions, and policy direction.
• • Participates as a member of the Executive Leadership Team in developing, recommending, and implementing the District's long-term and short-range goals and objectives.
• • Regularly reports to the Kitsap Public Health Board through presentations, emails and other forms of communication.
• • Participates in assessing the health status of the community.
• • Provides oversight on comprehensive studies of potentially systemic threats to public health; researches, analyzes, compiles, prepares, and presents conclusions, reports, and recommended actions.
• • Coordinates with the Board and Executive Leadership Team to develop and implement public health policy, develop regulations, and provide information and recommendations regarding public health issues and activities.
• • Takes actions as necessary to educate the community on public health issues to control and prevent the spread of dangerous, contagious, or infectious diseases, and coordinates these actions with the state board of health and state health officer as applicable.
• • Identifies emerging and important public health issues and confers with and makes recommendations to District Leadership and to the Board.
• • Coordinates with the Board and Administrator to balance fiscal impact, objectives, and community input when developing public health strategies, making recommendations and providing advice.
• • Participates with the Executive Leadership Team in the development and implementation of the District budget.
• • Provides consultation and direction of communicable disease protocols.
• • Evaluates the causes of communicable diseases; determines appropriate evaluation and intervention strategies.
• • Provides a leadership role in preparedness and response to biological and chemical terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
• • Coordinates public health responses with other public health jurisdictions as appropriate, including but not limited to providing short-term Deputy Health Officer coverage in the event of the absence of the Health Officer in another jurisdiction in Washington State, upon the agreement of both jurisdictions.
• • Develops and issues public health advisories to medical providers, hospitals, community agencies, and the public.
• • Responds to media inquiries regarding Kitsap county public health issues, disease outbreaks, and other health-related concerns in coordination with the Communications Program Manager.
• • Consults with physicians in the diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of communicable disease.
• • Conducts or supervises medical and physical examinations, makes diagnoses, and administers treatments as needed.
• • Provides medical oversight of clinical programs.
• • Reviews, revises, or writes standing orders and protocols for clinical services.
• • Makes recommendations on personnel actions such as staff size and composition.
• • Reviews, responds to, and advocates for legislation as it impacts public health and District programs.
• • Performs advocacy activities by communicating with federal, state, and local officeholders directly on official District business and advocating only the District's official position or interest of the District, as assigned or approved by the Board.
• • Consults and collaborates with the medical community, hospital medical staff, other health care professionals, policy and advisory boards, and the public to increase access to essential services and reduce health disparities.
• • Participates in administrative appeals regarding environmental health permit denials.
• • Serves on various District and other community-wide committees and regional and state public health-related committees.
• • Provides high-level public health expertise and perspective regarding a wide range of issues.
• • Provides public information in a courteous manner and emphasizes public accountability and a positive service approach with employees.
• • Makes oral presentations and functions as a District representative at meetings, hearings, and conferences.
• • Accurately completes and submits electronic timecard on a weekly basis.
• • Maintains accurate and organized records, databases, systems, and files.
• • Prioritizes and plans own work activities. Uses work time and resources effectively.
• • Prepares a variety of letters, memos, forms, reports, and other documents; operates computers utilizing a variety of software programs, including database and word processing applications, to produce documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
• • Responds to public health emergencies as required by the District.
• • Participates in quality improvement efforts.
• • Serves as a resource person for staff in their area of expertise.
• • Demonstrates cultural humility and embeds health equity into all aspects of assigned work and associated interactions.
• • Works both independently and within a collaborative team-oriented environment; contributes openly, respectfully disagrees, understands the ideas of others, listens well, and works for consensus.
• • Models a Lean Six Sigma organizational culture that promotes the practice of respect for people, openness, trust, safety, transparency, collaborative problem solving, managing with data, in the pursuit of incremental continuous improvement and assurance.
• • Establishes and maintains cooperative, effective working relationships with coworkers, other District employees, community partners, and the general public using principles of good customer service.
• • Reports for scheduled work with regular, reliable, and punctual attendance.
• • Performs other duties as assigned.