Posting ID: 25-15002-C

Position: Five(5) Student Positions: Safe Water & Vector-Borne Disease Prevention Programs 
Start Date: Effective May 5 or May 26, 2025
Status: Temporary, Full-Time (1.0 Full Time Equivalent (FTE), 35 hours per week) for a term of up to thirteen (13) weeks – up to sixteen (16) weeks
Wage: $17.20 - $19.05 per hour
Office: Haliburton, Lindsay, Peterborough, Port Hope

Assignment:

Haliburton Kawartha Northumberland Peterborough Health Unit will employ five (5) post-secondary school students for the Safe Water and Vector-Borne Disease Prevention Programs. To be clear, these positions will involve working in both the Safe Water and Vector-Borne Disease Prevention Program areas, not one or the other.

Duties will include:

• Interpretation of laboratory results for drinking water and recreational water samples.
• Sampling of rural and municipal recreational water with an emphasis on public beaches.
• Posting beaches when adverse bacteriological results are obtained.
• Response to private, adverse drinking water results.
• Answering telephone calls related to safe water and vector-borne disease prevention.
• Developing and implementing communications strategies with the support of the Communications and Environmental Health Managers.
• Investigating standing water complaints.
• Monitoring stormwater management ponds for mosquito breeding.
• Setting up mosquito traps and submitting contents for testing.
• Assisting with tick collection strategies.
• Maintaining records and completing summary reports.
• Public communication and education through written and verbal means.

Qualifications:

• Enrollment in, or completion of, a relevant university undergraduate degree; preference will be given to those enrolled in 1st, 2nd or 3rd year of a Certified Environmental Health Program accredited by the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.
• The candidate must possess and demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to coordinate daily activities effectively.
• Evidence of vehicle insurance, including business-use insurance.
• Must possess a valid driver's license and have access to ongoing reliable, efficient and effective transportation throughout the work day to meet the position’s needs.                                       
• Maintain up-to-date immunization according to the Ontario Publicly-Funded Immunization Schedule and/or the most recent edition of the Canadian Immunization Guide and the National Advisory Committee
• Immunization as per the Peterborough Public Health/Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit policy, including being fully vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine series; and
• TB skin testing is required at the onset of employment and may be required as part of routine TB surveillance or follow-up of potential exposures.   
• Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors Student Membership (preferred).
• Current and satisfactory Criminal Records Check and Vulnerable Sector Search.
• Students must be able to swim.

Note: This opportunity does not qualify as field training for the purpose of meeting the practicum requirements of the Board of Certification of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.