Ulster County Personnel Department
Civil Service Examination Announcement
A M E N D M E N T
FILING FEE $20.00
#50701 PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN SERIES
CONTINUOUS RECRUITMENT - OPEN-COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
AMENDED LAST DATE FOR FILING APPLICATIONS: September 25, 2008
EXAMINATION DATE: October 11, 2008
PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN SERIES #50701 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TITLES:
PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN
PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN TRAINEE
AND any other titles determined to be appropriate by the Ulster County Personnel Officer.
AMENDED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must meet the following requirement(s) on or before the date of the examination:
PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN:
A. Possession of an associate’s or higher level degree; OR
B. Satisfactory completion of sixty (60) semester credit hours from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university, including or supplemented by a minimum of twelve (12) semester credit hours in the physical or biological sciences and one year of experience as a Public Health Technician Trainee*;OR
C. One year of work experience in a public environmental health program.
Special
Requirement: At time
of appointment and throughout employment in this title, candidates must possess
a valid
*Experience in the former title of Environmental Health Technician Trainee is creditable as Public Health Technician Trainee experience.
PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN TRAINEE:
Possession of an Associate’s or higher level degree OR satisfactory completion of sixty (60) semester credit hours from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university, including or supplemented by a minimum of twelve (12) semester credit hours in the physical or biological sciences.
SPECIAL
REQUIREMENT: At time of appointment and throughout employment in this
title, candidates must possess a valid
PLEASE NOTE: The minimum qualifications for positions filled by this examination are regulated by the New York State Department of Health.
The New York State Department of Civil Service has notified our agency that the qualifications for positions in public health departments are under review by the New York State Department of Health and the effective date of any changes in the minimum qualifications has not yet been determined by the Department of Health. Candidates should be aware that the minimum qualifications which candidates will need to meet at the time of appointment to positions filled as a result of this examination may change once the New York State Department of Health takes final action to adopt such changes.
Candidates who are successful in this examination and meet the minimum qualifications for the position at the time of certification will be certified for appointment. Candidates who are successful in this examination but do not meet the minimum qualifications for the position at the time of certification, will be restricted from certification for appointment until such a time as they demonstrate that they meet the qualifications established by the New York State Department of Health when the changes become effective. If candidates acquire the training or experience necessary to meet the minimum qualifications for appointment during the life of the list, and demonstrate that they meet the qualifications established by the New York State Department of Health when they become effective they may then be certified for appointment.
Information about the proposed changes can be found at: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/feb20/pdfs/rules.pdf
The proposed changes appear on pages 13-15.
The remainder of this examination announcement remains as originally announced.
AMENDED ISSUE DATE: September 11, 2008
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