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Disease Intervention Specialist 1-3

Salary

$2,978.00 - $5,360.00 Monthly

Location

Statewide, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

OPH/CSH/211031

Department

LDH-Office of Public Health

Opening Date

07/23/2025

Closing Date

8/7/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

The mission of the Louisiana Department of Health is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all residents of the State of Louisiana.

Learn more about Louisiana Department of Health (https://ldh.la.gov/)

We’re looking for a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our communicable disease program as a Disease Intervention Specialist, responsible for conducting interviews of persons diagnosed or suspected of having communicable diseases, such as STD, HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis, in order to elicit names and locating information of persons exposed. This is an opportunity to start a meaningful career in public health, where your work can have a lasting impact on individual lives and community wellness.

If you're compassionate, detail-oriented, and eager to grow in a public service career, we encourage you to apply today!

An ideal candidate should possess the following competencies:

Core Competencies:

Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.

Displaying Expertise: The ability to exhibit specialized skills or knowledge gained from experience or training

Making Accurate Judgments: The ability to form an opinion objectively and decisively based on relevant

information and in accordance with established standards.

Preferred Competencies:

Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State

resources.

Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and

ideas.

Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and

decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

Three years of experience in disease investigation and prevention activities; OR

Three years of experience in investigatory work, social services, nursing, or as a medical laboratory technician or assistant; OR

A bachelor's degree.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=158430) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

+ Recommends and urges physicians and other health care providers to use recommended therapy and appropriate laboratory tests for potential or confirmed cases of communicable disease.

+ Conducts case management assessments to ascertain further possible potential for spread of disease and initiates appropriate new action.

+ Makes assigned visits to private clinics, hospitals, prisons, laboratories, nursing homes, and schools to solicit their cooperation for reporting outbreaks and effecting disease control techniques.

+ Prepares and maintains confidential records; collects, documents, and verifies pertinent medical data from patients, physicians, and medical facilities.

+ Obtains blood and exudate specimens; performs limited physical examinations and clinical tests to determine the existence of infections or exposure to disease.

+ Motivates patients and educates the general public on behavior modification, risk reduction, and prevention of communicable disease.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: Probationary and Promotional appointment

Cost Center: 3262109001

Position Number(s): 97232

Career Progression: This position may be filled as a Disease Intervention Specialist 1, 2, or 3 determined by the qualifications of the candidate selected. This position provides the opportunity to advance within this job series.

LDH supports Louisiana’s commitment to being a State as a Model Employer (SAME) by promoting the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.

How To Apply

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Contact Information:

Casey Hickman

[email protected]

LA Department of Health (LDH)

Division of Human Resources

PO Box 4818

Baton Rouge, LA 70821

225-342-6477

This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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AEI: Rate your ability to act with ethics and integrity based on our definition: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable acting with ethics and integrity

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to act with ethics and integrity

+ 3= I can act with ethics and integrity

+ 4= I can act with ethics and integrity and help others improve their ability to act with ethics and integrity

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CE: Rate your ability to communicate effectively based on our definition: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable communicating effectively

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to communicate effectively

+ 3= I can communicate effectively

+ 4= I can communicate effectively and help others improve their communication

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DA: Rate your ability to demonstrate accountability based on our definition: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable demonstrating accountability

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to demonstrate accountability

+ 3= I can demonstrate accountability

+ 4= I can demonstrate accountability and help others improve their ability to demonstrate accountability

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Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

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the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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