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Health Facilities Inspectors conduct inspections of health care facilities and services such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inmate medical care in prisons and transitional living facilities, intermediate care facilities, home health agencies, health care referral agencies, community triage centers, facilities for refractive laser surgery, ambulatory surgical centers, facilities for treatment of irreversible renal disease, medical laboratories, independent physician offices, rural health clinics, hospices, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitative facilities, outpatient physical therapy facilities, adult day care and group care facilities, alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers and half-wayhouses, obstetrical centers, independent centers for emergency medical care, rehabilitation clinics, occupational and physical therapists, and other facilities and practitioners as directed.
This position serves in a supervisory capacity and performs and oversees the regulation of health facilities including licensing, health and life safety code inspections and complaint investigations of domestic violence treatment programs, medical facilities such as hospitals and skilled nursing facilities,and non-medical facilities such as residential facilities for groups. This position's primary responsibilities includes the timely and accurate completion of inspections, development of quality assurance programs; and training, supervision and evaluation of lower level inspectors. This position will be housed in the Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance's Carson City office.
At the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, our mission is to protect, promote and improve the physical and behavioral health of the people of Nevada. The State of Nevada is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action in recruitment of its employees and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.
***THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.***
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
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Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public health, health care or business administration, the medical or biological sciences, criminal justice, or a specialty field identified for the specific recruitment such as dietetics, facilities construction and maintenance, finance or accounting, medical technology, social work or social science, and three years of professional experience as an inspector or surveyor in a health-related accrediting organization or in a state or federal regulatory compliance program which involved the inspection, licensing, or complaint investigation of health care facilities to determine compliance with state or federal laws and regulations, one year of which was equivalent to the Health Facilities Inspector II level in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above; OR one year of experience as a Health Facilities Inspector II in Nevada State service. |
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The ability to travel at least 50% of the time is required. |
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A pre-employment criminal history check and fingerprinting are required. Persons offered employment in this position will be required to pay for these items. |
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A valid driver's license or evidence of equivalent mobility is required at the time of application and as a condition of continuing employment. |
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The exam will consist of a rating of training and experience weighted 100%. It is essential that applications include extensively detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. Your score will be based on the information provided in your application and your responses to the questions asked below. If there are several parts to a question, answer each part separately. Along with each answer, identify the position(s) and/or training (as described in your application) where you gained the background asked for in the question. Absence of experience/training asked for in a question is not necessarily disqualifying. Failure to answer the questions will result in a score based solely on the application.
Those applicants deemed amongst the most qualified will be contacted directly by the hiring agency for interview. |
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1) Describe your experience, including number of years, supervising professional staff to include duties such as hiring, discipline, evaluations, etc.
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2) Describe you experience, including number of years, reviewing and analyzing inspection reports.
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3) Describe your experience, including number of years, preparing technical/legal reports.
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4) Describe your work experience, including, number of years, conducting research concerning health care/diagnosis, condition and activities of health facilities.
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5) Describe your experience, including number of years, delivering public presentations.
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6) Describe your experience, including number of years, identifying training needs for professional staff.
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