Disease Intervention Specialist 40641

Are you willing and able to:

1. Work in other areas of the state for extended periods of time during disease outbreaks?

Yes □ No □

2. Work with persons who are homosexual?

Yes □ No □

3. Work with persons who are prostitutes?

Yes □ No □

4. Work with persons who have HIV infection (AIDS Virus)?

Yes □ No □

5. Discuss the transmission, symptoms, and effects of sexually transmitted diseases with persons of the same or opposite sex?

Yes □ No □

6. Work with persons who are substance abusers? (alcohol and drugs)

Yes □ No □

7. Work alone in low income housing projects?

Yes □ No □

8. Work nights and weekends?

Yes □ No □

9. Be trained to perform venipuncture (blood drawing)?

Yes □ No □

10. Perform venipuncture on persons who may have a sexually transmitted disease or tuberculosis?

Yes □ No □

11. Transport patients with a sexually transmitted disease or tuberculosis in your personal vehicle?

Yes □ No □

12. Maintain strict confidentiality of all epidemiologic/medical information to which you have access?

Yes □ No □

13. Take verbal abuse from patients or third parties without retaliating physically or verbally?

Yes □ No □

14. Work in jail/prison settings?

Yes □ No □ 15.

Perform laboratory/diagnostic tests such as RPR serologic tests and darkfield microscopic exams for syphilis?

Yes □ No □

16. Go alone to a confirmed or suspected “crack house”?

Yes □ No □

17. Visit patients who are in medical isolation where you must wear a protective mask?

Yes □ No □ 18.

Be in the same room with a patient who has tuberculosis which may be drug resistant?

Yes □ No □

19. Be trained to perform skin tests?

Yes □ No □ 20.

Be trained to collect sputum specimens for laboratory testing?

Yes □ No □ 21.

Work with persons who may have pertussis (whooping cough), measles, or other vaccine preventable diseases?

Yes □ No □ !

Signature: ______________________________________ Social Security Number:

________________________ The Disease Intervention Specialist is a permanent, full-time position with the Alabama Department of Public Health (www.adph.org). Positions are located throughout the state. This is field investigative work in an epidemiological program of prevention and control of communicable diseases, chronic diseases, or a closely related field. Employees in this class acquire and investigate information of a confidential nature in the prevention and control of communicable diseases. On the reverse side of this announcement is a willingness questionnaire. These questions are tasks in which a Disease Intervention Specialist may be asked to perform. Carefully read each question, then check yes or no as to your willingness to perform the task. If you answer no to any questions, you may wish to reconsider applying for Disease Intervention Specialist. Attach the completed questionnaire to your application and return it to the State Personnel Department. Applications without the willingness questionnaire attached will not be accepted. Complete an Application for Examination Form available at www.personnel.alabama.gov, the above address, or any Alabama Career Center Office. Apply by mail or by fax. Applications will be accepted until further notice. The State Personnel Department is not responsible for late receipt of applications due to mail service or faxing malfunctions. Individuals currently on the register DO NOT need to reapply to remain eligible for employment.

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited* four-year college or university in any major.

Open-Competitive to all applicants. Written Multiple Choice Exam. The How to Prepare Guide for this examination is available on our website listed above. Please contact State Personnel if you wish to have a guide mailed to you.

Except for pretest information provided by State Personnel to all applicants, you should not directly or indirectly.  obtain information about examinations. If you do, the State Personnel Director may do several things. One, you may not be given an examination. Two, you may be disqualified after an examination. Three, your name may be removed from a register. Or four, your name may not be certified from the register. (Rules of the State Personnel Board, Chapter 670-x-9). According to the Code of Alabama, 36-26-47, a wilful violation of exam security is a misdemeanor. Any person who is convicted of this type of misdemeanor will be ineligible for appointment to or employment in a position in State service for a period of five years and, if the person is an officer or employee of the State, will forfeit his or her office or position.

If you know of anyone who has violated this policy, you should contact the Examination Manager at the State Personnel Department.

Applicants hired by the State of Alabama on or after January 1, 2012 will be subject to the E-Verify process pursuant to Act No. 2011-535.

State of Alabama Personnel Department Policy on Accepting College Coursework, Post-Secondary and Advanced Degrees

1. Specific college coursework required for a job classification, as well as bachelor’s, graduate, post graduate,and doctoral degrees will be accepted from schools accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission

(DEAC) or any of the six regional accreditation associations in the United States listed below:

 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
 Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
 Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU)
 Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
 New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE)
 Western Association of Schools and Colleges –Senior College and University Commission (WASC-SCUC)

College coursework is defined as credit hours leading to a bachelor’s degree or higher.

2. Coursework or degrees from schools that have not been accredited by one of the above accreditation associations may be accepted if a regionally accredited school* considers the coursework or degree to be an acceptable prerequisite for admission to an advanced degree program. For example, if a regionally accredited school accepts an applicant’s bachelor’s degree for admittance into a graduate degree program, State Personnel will accept the degree. In the case of required college coursework (but no degree requirement), State Personnel will accept the college coursework if a regionally accredited school accepts the coursework towards a post-secondary degree (e.g., a bachelor’s degree). This must be documented by a letter of acceptance from the regionally accredited school. State Personnel will review such requests on a case-by-case basis.

Note: This policy is subject to change. Certain state agencies may have additional requirements.

*The term “regionally accredited school” refers to an institution of higher education accredited by one of the six regional accreditation associations listed above.