OPS BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST II - 64950016 1

Requisition No: 848193 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: OPS BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST II - 64950016 1

 Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 64950016 

Salary:  $20.00 per hour 

Posting Closing Date: 03/11/2025 

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Open Competitive Opportunity

OPS Biological Scientist II

 

Specific Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Surveillance activities within Palm Beach County Health Department – TB Program. This position works in close coordination and serves as a backup for the TB Control Program Records Technician.
• Generates reports upon request, and provides oversight for data integrity regarding information being entered into HMS and TB medical records, and updates the TB database on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for Classes B1, B2 notifications, referrals and EDN records. Responsible for linking patients to services. Produce follow up reports and updates to the TB Control Section and CDC. Makes phone calls, send certifies letter and conduct field visits to locate patients as needed. Receives and processes reports from Electronic Disease Notification (EDN) clients. Reviews reports, prints records and keeps individual folders on CDC EDN A, B1, B2, B3 reports. Ensures registration of EDN clients in HMS.
• Schedules appointments for clients and enters progress notes in HMS. Calls clients to inform of the date/time of the appointments, mails certified letters with appointments slip and documents. Follow up with the client’s appointments if necessary. Sends client’s EDN records to the Medical Records office of the Health Department Health Centers for medical evaluation. Continue monitoring all EDN patients until submitted and completed in EDN system and EDN TB Data spreadsheet.
• Documents updates and outcomes on HMS progress notes, TB Data spreadsheet and EDN TB-Follow up worksheet. Responsible for the Unaccompanied Children (UAC) notifications and referrals and linking them to services. Produce follow up reports and updates.
• Responsible for notification and tracking of interjurisdictional referrals of LTBI patients. Receive, track, and report on the status of all LTBI referrals for PBC and will be responsible for assuring all forms from Palm Beach County are complete and reports documented before they are returned to the Bureau of TB and Refugee Health and other counties in Florida. Serves as the backup registering inter-jurisdictional TB suspects and cases clients in HMS. Initiates care coordination, assigns initial classification, enters X-Rays, HIV and TB Screening test results and updates.
• Follows up on pending and unreported data and update data if available at the time of receiving inter-jurisdictional reports. Provides the information to the Lead Nurse Case Manager (NCM) for prioritization and follow up. Serves as a backup for Records Technician duties regarding TB cases and suspect’s reports, registration in HMS, classification and processing of all demographic and clinical data. Assign reports of cases and suspects to nurse case managers when covering for Records Technician.

• Requests information from the network of private hospitals and doctor’s office and follow up with pending information to completion. Assists in the processing EPI information data during large contact investigations and registration in HMS.
• Evaluate and track activities related to linking LTBI patients from the Migrant Clinicians Network and Department of Correction (DOC) to clinic services, and make referrals as needed.
• Keeps records and ensure all notification letters are sent to patients released from a correctional institution. Ensure released inmates are located and linked to LTBI services.
• Provide a response to notifications according to current timeframes.
• Assist keeping IGRA database at the health center level. Responsible for all related data entry of medical information obtained from private physicians is entered in the HMS system and kept on medical records.
• Schedule medical appointments and follow up by phone calls. Notifies by letters or home visits as necessary.