Public Health Inspector (HPC/EH 1) - Clarendon Health Department

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Health 
• Licensed with the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM)
• Completion of internship programme 

Required Knowledge and Skills:

Core: 

• Oral communication skills 
• Written Communication Skills 
• Teamwork 
• Time management 
• Judgement 
• Initiative 
• Customer & Quality Focus 
• Problem Solving & Decision making 

Technical: 

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of public health. 
• Knowledge of the environmental science and preventive medicine. 
• Knowledge of public health laws and regulations. 
• Knowledge of public health law and other regulations relating to public health and ability to interpret and apply them to health sanitation. 
• Knowledge of new trends and developments in public health. 
• Knowledge of the Jamaican society, culture and communities. 
• Ability to set professional standards, motivate staff, maintain satisfactory relationships with staff, the community, and other health workers. 
• Ability to recognize hazardous sanitation practises and implement remedial action. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Making routine visits to food service and processing facilities, bars and other retail food establishments to determine that foods are properly handled, stored and refrigerated.
• Inspecting schools, nursing homes, hotels, barber-shops and other service establishments and dwellings for compliance with standard sanitation practices and public health laws.
• Investigating reports and complaints of insanitary conditions, or contaminated food or water and initiates action for control, eradication or disposal. 
• Discussing local public health problems with relevant authorities and supplies information and advice on public and private water supply, sewage and refuse disposal.
• Promoting public and environmental health programmes; distributes literature on sanitation and environmental health hazards, gives lectures to students and civic groups; interprets regulations. 
• Conducting investigations into communicable, food and meat borne diseases; and reports to relevant authorities for remedial action; compiles reports and statistics.
• Inspecting meat and issuing certification for sale to consumers. 
• Participating in immunization and spraying and eradication campaigns in outbreaks of epidemics and disasters. 
• Enforcing public health regulations by serving notices and instituting prosecutions.
• Preparing and submitting weekly and monthly reports. 
• Conducting surveys in communities and implement programmes to address public health issues. 
• Participating in the control of pandemics, epidemics and disasters. 
• Supervising vector control workers, environmental health workers and National Youth Service (NYS) workers. 
• Promoting sanitation education and interest in improve health standards.
• Exercising tact in the execution of duties. 

NB. ONLY SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED