Public Health Investigator

3 weeks ago

Los Angeles, California, United States The County of Los Angeles Full time
Job Summary

The County of Los Angeles is seeking a highly skilled Public Health Investigator to join our team. As a Public Health Investigator, you will play a critical role in enforcing laws, ordinances, and regulations for the control of communicable and selected non-communicable diseases.

Key Responsibilities
  • Conduct investigations to locate cases and contacts of tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease, human immunodeficiency virus, or other communicable diseases and selected non-communicable diseases.
  • Counsel individuals who suffer from a communicable or non-communicable disease regarding the nature and control of their disease and educate them on risk reduction techniques and behaviors.
  • Enforce public health laws, rules, and regulations governing communicable disease control by serving legal orders of the Health Officer on patients in their homes, hospitals, or detention facilities.
  • Quarantine cases and contacts of communicable disease in private homes or institutions and place restrictions on infected individuals employed in sensitive occupations such as food handling.
  • Transport patients in connection with the enforcement of legal orders pertaining to the isolation of such patients in a hospital or detention facility, or to facilitate the medical care and treatment of patients infected with a communicable disease.
Requirements
  • One year's experience as a Public Health Investigator Trainee.
  • A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
Working Conditions

Positions allocable to this class work in either a Service Planning Area under the administrative and technical supervision of a Supervising Public Health Investigator or in a specialized health investigation program under the administrative and technical supervision of a Supervising Public Health Investigator or higher level program manager.

Incumbents enforce state and County public health laws, ordinances, and regulations for the control of communicable and selected non-communicable diseases, such as alcoholism, and counseling patients to encourage risk reduction behaviors and referring them for treatment.

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