The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a detail-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal skills to serve as Administrative Assistant II for the Epidemiology Unit within the Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Program. Supports surveillance, investigation, and response for novel and targeted multidrug resistant organisms (MDRO) and HAIs. Coordinates onsite healthcare facility visits, colonization screening samples, and isolate submission and testing. Assists with data quality checks for the National Healthcare Safety Network and HAI and MDRO reporting to the Illinois extensively drug resistant organism registry and the Illinois National Electronic Disease Surveillance System. Provides technical assistance and training to local health departments, laboratories, and healthcare facilities related to HAI and MDRO reporting, surveillance, and response.

Job Responsibilities

Supports surveillance, investigation, and response for novel and targeted multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) and Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) as assigned.
Provides technical assistance and training to local health departments, laboratories, and healthcare facilities related to HAI and MDRO surveillance, investigation, and response.
Facilitates reporting of HAIs and MDROs to relevant communicable disease reporting systems.
Participates in developing grant applications for the HAI/AR program.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four years of college with courses in public or business administration.
Requires two years of professional experience in epidemiology or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Two years of professional experience related to healthcare associated infections or other infectious diseases.
One year experience communicating in writing and orally with a variety of audiences.
One year experience with performing data entry, with high attention to detail and accuracy.
One year experience with organizing and managing multiple assignments, with high attention to deadlines.
One year experience with REDCap.
One year experience with a patient safety information exchange registry or other surveillance system.
One year experience with standard software applications, including Microsoft Excel, Word, andPowerPoint.

Conditions of Employment

Requires a valid driver's license.
Requires the ability to travel.

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In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way. Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH. In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, lif...e expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century. In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies. Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism. IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees. IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.

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