Senior Epidemiologist - Custody Health Services

County of Santa Clara; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

County of Santa Clara's Custody Health Services seeks a Senior Epidemiologist to conduct complex epidemiologic analyses, lead investigations, and guide data projects for prevention and control of communicable and chronic diseases among custody populations. The candidate will work under general supervision in a correctional setting.

The role involves developing dashboards, surveillance systems, and data governance, coordinating with senior leadership, and mentoring staff.

Responsibilities

• Leads monitoring of the health of county residents and disparities.
• Leads data analysis of state, county, city, and census data to identify trends.
• Develops dashboards, reports, maps, and visualizations for stakeholders.
• Guides data governance policy creation and data validation standards.
• Leads epidemiologic investigations to identify health determinants.
• Mentors staff and provides data analysis coaching.

Skills

Epidemiology

Biostatistics

Data Visualization

Leadership

Education

Master's degree in Epidemiology

Tools

R

SAS

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Under general supervision, to conduct a broad and complex range of investigative and analytical epidemiologic functions using epidemiologic and statistical methods; to lead epidemiologic investigations and data projects for the prevention and control of specific communicable and chronic diseases, injuries, and other health conditions; may assist in the planning and development of health programs and policies, surveillance systems, and strategies aimed at controlling and preventing disease; and may lead lower-level professional Epidemiologists.

This recruitment is for one (1) Senior Epidemiologist position available in Custody Health Services.

• 1 full-time position; day shifts

Selected candidate(s) must be able to work in a correctional facility, which requires passing a background check for security clearance.

Custody Health Services (CHS) provides medical, mental health, and dental services to patients in custody at the four County detention facilities: Main Jail, Elmwood, Juvenile Hall, and James Ranch. On-site routine and urgent/emergent medical services are provided at both Main Jail and Elmwood adult jail facilities in Santa Clara County. Health care of incarcerated patients includes care of acute and chronic illness as well as preventative and specialty care. CHS also operates a 40-bed acute psychiatric inpatient housing unit at the Main Jail facility for incarcerated adults who require acute inpatient services for stabilization. Juvenile Custody Health Services provides integrated medical services including comprehensive pediatric medical, mental health, and dental care to justice-involved youth housed in Juvenile Hall and James Ranch.

Discover exciting career opportunities with the County of Santa Clara's Custody Health Services, a division of Santa Clara Valley Healthcare. We’re hiring passionate and dedicated professionals who are ready to make a meaningful impact in compassionate, patient-centered correctional healthcare.

The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Each individual in the classification does not necessarily perform all duties listed.

• Serves as a lead in the monitoring of the health of county residents and health disparities between populations in a timely and effective manner;
• Leads, monitors, and analyzes State, County, City, and census tract level data to identify trends and progress towards national goals;
• Works with Senior Leadership to determine data analytic organizational goals;
• Leads staff in the production and dissemination of Countywide dashboards, reports, maps, and visualizations for internal and external stakeholders on health and social determinants of health;
• Provides input on data governance policy creation;
• Leads epidemiologic investigations using established scientific and technical methods and practices to identify and evaluate a wide range of health conditions and underlying determinants within an assigned program area;
• Works to identify and reveal trends, patterns, and relationships in data to provide guidance for Senior Leadership decision making processes;
• Provides expertise in determining the right type of analytics or statistics to apply to data sets collected and utilized by the department or County;
• Provides input on data governance policy creation;
• Develops standards and best practice procedures for data validation, analysis, and presentation;
• Creates and implements techniques for data collection, accuracy, and management;
• Provides data analysis coaching to team members;
• Leads data-related issues around quality and analytical production; queries and profiles data to determine conformance to standards and fit for purpose; classifies and organizes data for ease of use and access control purposes;
• Pinpoints trends, correlations, and patterns in complicated data sets;
• Leads documentation and maintains all data management procedures and specifications; identifies opportunities to increase data quality, including automation and data entry procedural training;
• Provides guidance to data stewards in the range of stewardship activities and best practices;
• Monitors and provides status reports on data lifecycle and analytical workflow processes;
• Leads creation of open datasets, including populating and extracting data from internal and public open datasets; extracts and manages multiple sets of data from various databases and sources, bringing together data from several channels for comparative analysis;
• Mines and analyzes data using advanced statistical tools and techniques;
• Documents and