SENIOR HUMAN SERVICE PROGRAM SPEC - SES - 64004107

State of Florida • Miami, FL

2d • $59,000 - $62,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Human Service Program Specialist is a professional supervisory and managerial position serving as the Perinatal HIV Coordinator in the HIV/AIDS section. The position leads partnerships with hospitals, obstetricians, maternal and child health services, HIV/AIDS service organizations, and other community and medical providers serving HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women and HIV-infected or HIV-exposed infants. The coordinator works with partners to track pregnant women and ensure systems are in place for prenatal care, adherence support, and follow-up for mothers and babies. The position handles sensitive information and must follow HIPAA and applicable federal, state, local, Department of Health, and county health department information-security policies and confidentiality procedures.

Most of the position’s time is spent on supervision, including communicating with, motivating, training, evaluating, and directing employees. The incumbent develops performance expectations, meets regularly with staff about performance, completes performance reviews and timesheets, maintains work and vacation schedules, and ensures adequate coverage. The role has authority to take or effectively recommend personnel actions, including hiring, promotion, discipline, and discharge.

The coordinator oversees reporting and follow-up for HIV-exposed or infected infants, provides perinatal HIV prevention education, and helps ensure infants receive diagnostic testing on schedule. The position designs and maintains the program database, monitors data entry, and produces reports to guide program activities. It also leads provider partnerships and coordinates with surveillance staff, hospitals, clinics, community organizations, and statewide coordinators to support timely identification, referral, treatment, tracking, and follow-up for pregnant women and infants. The role provides protocols, training, statistics, updates, and presentations to providers and community partners, and participates in monitoring the TOPWA contract and conducting site visits.

The position is based at 1350 N.W. 14th Street, Miami, Florida. Incumbents may be required to perform emergency duty before, during, or beyond normal work hours or days.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience working in health-related public health, HIV/AIDS, or STD programs.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of supervision or administration.
• Knowledge of social and health care services objectives.
• Knowledge of methods of compiling, organizing, and collecting data.
• Ability to provide training and prepare reports.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, in English.
• Ability to establish and maintain liaison with other agencies and effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments and work independently.
• Ability to use Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, and report-generation tools.
• Ability to use problem-solving techniques.
• Knowledge of HIPAA privacy rules.
• Successful completion of required security background check and, where applicable, drug screening; participation in direct deposit.
• Complete Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification through E-Verify.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HIV/AIDS section’s perinatal HIV prevention work as the Perinatal HIV Coordinator and develop partnerships with medical and social-service organizations serving HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women and exposed or infected infants.
• Work with community partners to track HIV-infected pregnant women and ensure systems provide prenatal care, adherence support, and follow-up for mothers and babies.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA and applicable information-security policies and regulations.
• Supervise employees by communicating with, motivating, training, evaluating, planning, and directing their work; establish performance expectations, discuss performance, complete reviews and timesheets, maintain schedules, and ensure adequate coverage.
• Exercise or effectively recommend personnel actions, including hiring, transfer, suspension, layoff, recall, promotion, discharge, assignment, rewards, and discipline.
• Ensure timely reporting of HIV-exposed or infected infants to HIV/AIDS surveillance staff.
• Provide education on perinatal HIV prevention to individuals or groups involved in caring for pregnant women with HIV.
• Verify that infants receive diagnostic testing to confirm HIV status by four months of age, subject to the stated breastfeeding-related timeline, and oversee follow-up care for breastfeeding mothers throughout breastfeeding.
• Help design and maintain the Perinatal HIV Prevention Program database, monitor data entry, and generate reports to guide program activities.
• Establish, maintain, oversee, and facilitate the HIV Perinatal Prevention Providers Partnership, including meetings with JMH Perinatal Immunology Clinic (PRIMM) and UM Pediatric Screening Clinic staff.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to coordinate treatment and services for non-compliant or drug-dependent HIV-infected pregnant women.
• Coordinate with the Miami-Dade County HIV/AIDS Surveillance Department to establish the status of pregnant women and newborns and ensure timely updates and closures of HIV-exposed infants in the HIV Scan Database.
• Provide every hospital emergency department with updated HIV testing and referral protocols for women identified as not receiving prenatal care after the 12th week of gestation.
• Provide birthing hospitals’ labor and delivery units and newborn nurseries with updated rapid-testing, antiretroviral, newborn AZT, breastfeeding, high-risk pregnancy notification, and newborn exposure notification protocols and guidelines.
• Provide perinatal HIV statistics, updates, and presentations to community members and medical providers upon request and to the Miami-Dade HIV/AIDS Partnership Strategic Planning Committee annually.
• Maintain a working relationship with TOPWA, receive quarterly information about enrolled HIV-infected pregnant women and services, make referrals, and participate in contract monitoring, site visits, and feedback.
• Maintain working relationships with clinics and hospitals that test pregnant women for HIV; provide training, resources, protocols, and referral procedures for high-risk pregnancies and PRIMM Clinic services.
• Maintain working relationships with delivering hospitals; provide training, resources, protocols, and referral procedures for newborn exposure notifications and UM Pediatric Screening Clinic services.
• Maintain working relationships with perinatal HIV coordinators across Florida to identify best practices and coordinate identification and tracking when patients receive care or services in other counties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Annual and sick leave
• Nine paid holidays and one personal holiday each year
• State Group Insurance options, including health, life, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition waivers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed