COMMUNITY DISEASE CONTROL SPECIALIST 1 - 40001140

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DEPARTMENT:       

PUBLIC HEALTH

DATE POSTED:            

MARCH 4, 2026

CLOSING DATE:           

MARCH 9, 2026

HIRING RANGE:

$50,219.00 - $67,765.00

POSITION NUMBER:            

40001140

JOB TYPE:

FULL-TIME, (37.5 HOURS, EXEMPT)

 

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

 

The primary purpose of this position is to provide HIV testing and counseling services in clinical and field settings, to perform client interviews for persons testing positive for communicable diseases, partner tracking and notification, communicable disease surveillance, and to refer and connect clients into treatment and care.

 

 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

The essential functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Informs, counsels, and interviews patients diagnosed with syphilis, HIV and AIDS and their partners and to refer them to medical and/or psychosocial services;
• Counsel patients on PrEP medication options, financial considerations, adherence, ID provider options, STIs/HIV prevention counseling to include rapid HIV test specific counseling, and to address all questions and concerns patients may have about PrEP medications.; will accompany patients to the lab to initiate the rapid HIV test, will provide HIV rapid test results and appropriate counseling, will instruct patients to wait for the DCoDPH to call with confirmatory HIV results before starting PrEP medication, will obtain the release of information and assist patients in making their PrEP follow-up appointment if they chose to start PrEP medications on the day of the visit or at a later date; will get verbal ( or written) permission to call patients to give the confirmatory HIV results and to provide appointment reminder calls/follow-up calls to patients;
• Locates, notifies and counsels sex and needle sharing partners;
• Assists with patient notification for persons testing positive for gonorrhea and chlamydia;
• Collaborates with the Raleigh Regional Office on a weekly basis through submission of reports and cases through the North Carolina Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NCEDSS);
• Assists Communicable Disease Program Manager and Health Director in investigation and issuing of Isolation Orders for suspected Control measures violations;
• Analyzes comprehensive and complex data to determine the source and spread of disease and plan intervention to reduce occurrence and spread of disease in the community;
• Assists and refers clients in entering or re-entering treatment and care for HIV when newly diagnosed or have become lost to care and follow-up;
• Provides pre- and post-test HIV counseling to any client encounter;
• Provides education on transmission and prevention of HIV;
• Advises clients in assessing their own risk for HIV and establishing a preventative plan for reducing their risk, including condom use;
• Documents patient encounters into the Electronic Medical Record and any other