Job/Position DescriptionPerforms highly advanced (senior level) consultative services and technical assistance work. Work involves directing and evaluating newborn screening program activities; planning, developing, and implementing Newborn Screening initiatives, and providing consultative services and technical assistance to program staff, governmental agencies, community organizations, or the general public. The person in this position must be able to manage many tasks simultaneously and manage a variety of ongoing high-level projects and responsibilities. Serves as a liaison to medical specialists supporting long and short-term follow-up activities for newborns with abnormal screens and confirmed diagnoses. Promotes newborn screening initiatives to medical specialists and other groups to encourage and improve reporting activities. Directs staff and consults with regional support services and public health programs to locate babies and facilitate appropriate medical care. Develops and recommends procedural or policy changes. Reviews and evaluates newborn screening follow-up service delivery methods, outputs, and activities to identify gaps in resources or services. Provides professional follow up services for infants with abnormal screens. Plans, assigns, trains, and/or prioritizes the workload of long-term follow-up staff. Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.Essential Job Functions (30%) Directs specialized public health services Directs members of the Newborn Screening Genetics Branch who are acting as liaisons with external customers, and directly consults with internal and external stakeholders to locate and facilitate continuity of care services for the most complex or hard-to-find babies identified with abnormal newborn screens. Consults with regional social workers to provide emergency home visits and other necessary resources such as arranging transportation to specialists and obtaining needed medications, or other healthcare services. Uses communication skills and medical knowledge to consult and negotiate with other agencies as appropriate including Medicaid, to quickly resolve problems and identify needed resources both in and out of network. (25%) Provides consultative and technical servicesDirects, plans, and evaluates the long-term follow-up activities; including developing goals and objectives, and working with internal staff and medical specialists to plan, develop, and implement improvements to long term follow-up processes. Develops the newborn screening long term policy/procedure manuals, standards, and performance outcomes, and plans in accordance with program objectives and goals. Directs pilot projects and collaborates with hospitals, Health Service Regions (HSRs), medical specialists and consultants including endocrinologists, immunologists, pulmonologists, metabolic specialists, hematologists, and audiologists to find agreement and solutions to the gathering and reporting of long-term data on babies diagnosed with newborn screen disorders. Provides technical assistance on database or electronic reporting related issues to internal and external customers; and researches and evaluates the use of alternative technology including data exchange. Consults with program staff and medical specialists in determining national and statewide trends associated with long term follow-up. Directs, plans, assigns, trains, and/or prioritizes the workload of staff providing long t https://jobshrportal.hhsc.state.tx.us/ENG/CareerPortal/job_profile.cfm?szOrderID=601152 Copy the URL in the preceding sentence to an Internet Explorer browser to apply to the job directly through the Texas Health and Human Services Career Portal.