Antimicrobial Stewardship Epidemiologist HP III HAIAR Program

The Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response (DCPHR) is the departments lead surveillance planning and response arm for public events including communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics pandemics bioterrorism and other public health and mass casualty events and disasters. The division includes the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response; State Public Health Laboratory; Health Equity Branch Communicable Disease Branch; Immunization Branch; Public Health Informatics Reporting Technology Branch; Refugee Branch; and Operations Branch. The Division exists to ensure that the Department has the ability to effectively prepare for monitor detect diagnose investigate and nimbly respond to all types of conditions events and disasters that impact the publics health.

The Unit:To monitor investigate and control epidemic and communicable diseases affecting public health in Colorado as required under Colorado statute including enteric diseases invasive bacterial diseases respiratory diseases vaccine-preventable diseases zoonotic diseases foodborne and waterborne diseases tuberculosis and healthcare-associated infections.

The Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Program has a mission to prevent health care-associated infections and control the spread of emerging antimicrobial-resistance threats in all health care settings in Colorado through surveillance containment and response infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship.

• Collect and analyze antimicrobial stewardship data including data on antimicrobial stewardship core elements antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use.
• Evaluate the prevalence of antibiotic stewardship core elements in healthcare settings using data from CDCs National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
• Monitor antimicrobial use as reported in CDCs Antimicrobial Resistance and Patient Safety Portal.
• Analyze antimicrobial use and resistance data reported to the Antibiotic Use and Resistance Module of NHSN and evaluate antimicrobial use data from other data sources (e.g. prevalence surveys Medicare or claims data).
• Measure the impact of antimicrobial stewardship efforts of CDPHE.
• Report and display antimicrobial stewardship data including data on antimicrobial stewardship core elements antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use.
• Create internal reports of antibiotic stewardship core elements and antimicrobial use in hospitals nursing homes and outpatient settings.
• Create reports of antimicrobial stewardship data for partners and for posting on the CDPHE website.
• Work with healthcare facilities partner organizations and antimicrobial stewards in the community to promote antimicrobial stewardship activities.
• Work with HAI/AR Program staff to assess and record antimicrobial stewardship practices in individual healthcare facilities and provide antimicrobial stewardship tools and education in collaboration with partner organizations
• Attend antimicrobial stewardship meetings with community partners hosted by CDPHE and promote antimicrobial stewardship during US Antibiotic Awareness Week.
• On assigned days this position participate in the routine epi call schedule by answering email questions and telephone calls from healthcare providers patients and the public on a variety of communicable disease issues.
• Participate in HAI/AR prevention and response activities including outbreak investigation as needed.
• Participate in departmental emergency response/bioterrorism team (training and investigations) as assigned and response to emergencies with the Communicable Disease Branch.
• Work closely with the Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacy Lead to complete activities according to the antimicrobial stewardship strategic plan.
• Work closely with the HAI Surveillance Data Analyst and the NHSN Data Unit.

An applicant may meet the minimum qualifications for this job in one of two ways: They may qualify through their work experience alone or through a combination of education and work experience.

Experience Only:

Six (6) years of health professional experience in public health epidemiology biostatistics or closely-related field with proficiency in data analysis and data analysis and data analysis software including R and R Studio.

A combination of related education in public health epidemiology biostatistics or closely-related field and/or health professional experience in public health epidemiology biostatistics or closely-related field with proficiency in data analysis and data analysis software including R and R Studio equal to Six (6) years

• A pre-employment background check
• Travel for outreach and education activities and conferences may require an overnight stay.
• Be expected to work and/or remain at their worksite in delayed start early release or closure situations.
• Be available in the event of an emergency (e.g. bio-terrorist attack chemical attack disease outbreak or all hazards) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time travel restrictions may be in place.
• Be available in the event of the activation of the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and be required to report to work immediately at the regular or alternate location. During this time travel restrictions may be in place.

• Experience with antibiotic resistance antibiotics and antibiotic stewardship.
• Proficiency managing large datasets from the National Healthcare Safety Network public health surveillance data and administrative datasets such as Medicare data.
• Proficiency with statistical coding using R and R Studio.
• Experience with best practices of data display.
• Experience supporting team projects through data collection and analysis.
• Experience presenting and reporting data to stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating on projects with partners external to the organization.

As an applicant directly affected by the results of the selection or comparative analysis process you may file a written appeal with the State Personnel Director.

Review of the completed signed and submitted appeal will be timely on the basis of written material submitted by you using the official appeal form signed by you or your representative. This form must be completed and delivered to the State Personnel Board by email atwithin ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the Departments action.

For further information on the Board Rules you can refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1 State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Directors Administrative Procedures Chapter 8 Resolution of Appeals and Disputes at Information

A complete application packet must include:

1. A complete application that documents your work history giving details of your qualifications including how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications when listing your work history.
2. A copy of your transcripts if you are using education to meet the minimum qualifications. (unofficial copy acceptable)
3. If you are a veteran attach a copy of your DD214 to your application

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ADAAA Accommodations:
The State of Colorado believes that equity diversity and inclusion drive our success and we encourage candidates from all identities backgrounds and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore in all aspects of the employment process we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy medical condition related to pregnancy creed ancestry national origin marital status genetic information or military status (with preference given to military veterans) or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment including completing the application process interviewing completing any pre-employment testing participating in the employee selection process and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position please direct your inquiries to ourADAAA Coordinator Dan McKenna at or call option 5.