ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, HEALTH MANAGEMENT DIVISION

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the Citys evolving criminal justice system participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees visitors volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

The New York City Department of Correction seeks to recruit an experienced candidate to serve as the Assistant Commissioner for the Health Management Division (HMD). This division consists of several units which include the clinic sick desk medical records case management workers compensation toxicology absence control infection control home visit group medically monitored return (MMR) and administration. Under executive direction and with latitude to exercise independent judgment and initiative the incumbent will be responsible for the overall management of the Health Management Division. The successful candidate will oversee and direct the administration delivery and review of employee medical and health services; establish relevant policies and operating procedures for the Health Management Division; ensure that every aspect of the Health Management Division performs efficiently while ensuring that all employees have the equipment and resources they need to deliver the best quality Member of Service care; evaluate the current HMD Case Management System and work with IT to implement strategies to connect and streamline information and services seamlessly; evaluate the delivery of medical and health services; assess the need for and practicability of additional employee medical programs; determine the need for program upgrades to accommodate the DOC expansion and reform initiative; provide data and pertinent information to DOC Facilities Management Team and the executive leadership staff on matters relating to trends in employee sick leave workers compensation cases line of duty injuries occupational illnesses infection control measures absence control medical separations medical status etc.; provide insight on matters relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the HMD operations; develop contingency plans for the delivery of medical care to staff at the scene of jail/facility emergencies; develop implement and modify operational requirements and policies to ensure compliance with federal state city and local mandates; develop and implement contingency plans to address epidemic outbreaks within departmental facilities; develop and manage workplace wellness initiatives; ensure through subordinates that the integrity of the departmental substance abuse testing processes is maintained; ensure full compliance with departmental policies concerning specimen testing and retesting including collection custody linkages and reporting; implement best practices in employee health service delivery; manage staffing levels of medical professionals to ensure effective and efficient delivery and oversight of employee health services; implement processes to ensure quality assurance in service delivery; partner with the Office of Trials & Litigation the Investigations Division and the Office of Human Resources in the determination of medical separations; partake in special projects; and perform other related duties as assigned.




Preferred skills
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience leading or managing employee health
services operations occupational health division large scale medical facility or employee
and workplace wellness operations.
- Knowledge of employee/occupational health service delivery practices and programs.
- Knowledge of established best practices in the fields of employee health and wellness.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to effectively establish and
maintain working relationships with internal and external partners.
- Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook) proficiency.

ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER (DOC) - 95041

Qualifications :

Qualification Requirements

1. A Masters Degree from an accredited college in Public Administration Personnel Administration Business Administration Human Services Criminal Justice Political Science Psychology or a related field plus three years of satisfactory experience of a nature to qualify for the duties and responsibilities of the position at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative managerial or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities related to the duties of the position; or
2. A bachelors degree from an accredited college and five years of satisfactory experience of a nature to qualify for the duties and responsibilities of the position at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative managerial or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities related to the duties of the position; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and nine years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible experience as described in 1 above 18 months of which must have been in an administrative managerial executive or supervisory capacity.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time