Carteret Board of Health
Board of Health · Middlesex County
Carteret Board of Health is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a board of health in Middlesex County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Middlesex County has 19 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in total, including this one.
About boards of health in New Jersey
A local board of health handles public health functions such as inspections, environmental health, and communicable disease response for its municipality or county. Where a board of health is listed as its own civil service jurisdiction, its personnel decisions are made separately from the rest of the local government.
See all 19 civil service jurisdictions in Middlesex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Pension and salary data for Carteret Board of Health
Carteret Board of Health's staff appear on Carteret Borough's pension rolls: 168 enrolled members, a median pensionable salary of $85,882 and a median 10.6 years of credited service. Single-purpose public bodies are often reported through a parent municipality or county rather than as their own pension employer.
See every civil service jurisdiction in Middlesex County for the ones that do report, or how we compile this.
Other public employers in Carteret Borough
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Carteret Borough. Each is its own employer for pension purposes, and only some are civil service jurisdictions — school boards, charter schools and parking authorities are ordinary public employers that were never part of Title 11A. Names link only where the body appears in this directory.
| Employer | Enrolled members |
|---|---|
| CARTERET BD OF ED | 455 |
| CARTERET BOROUGH | 168 |
| CARTERET HOUSING AUTHORITY | 8 |
| CARTERET REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY | 1 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Carteret Board of Health
A local board of health handles inspections, environmental health, vital records and communicable disease work. Where it is listed as a jurisdiction in its own right, its personnel decisions are made separately from the rest of the local government, even when it shares a building with it.
Public health titles are unusually credential-driven. The health officer title requires a state health officer licence. Environmental health work runs through the Registered Environmental Health Specialist title and its state licence. Public health nursing requires New Jersey registered nurse licensure. In each case the credential comes first and the examination second, which also makes these titles portable from one board of health to another.
Temporary and seasonal appointments sit outside the permanent track entirely. Summer recreation staff, short-term project help and coverage for an absent employee are filled without an examination and end when the need does. The work counts as experience when you later apply for a competitive title, but it confers no status of its own.
Passing an examination puts you on an eligible list, not into a job. Lists are promulgated for a fixed life, commonly three years, and the Commission certifies names from the live list whenever an employer reports a vacancy. If no list exists for a title when a vacancy opens, the employer has to ask for an examination to be held.
Civil service employers in Carteret Borough
Carteret Board of Health serves Carteret Borough, a borough in Middlesex County, but it is in the listing as a board of health on its own account rather than as part of the borough government.
The Carteret Borough government is listed too: Carteret Borough. Both run under Title 11A, and both certify their own appointments, so applying to one tells you nothing about openings at the other.
One further Carteret Borough body is listed as well, which puts three separate civil service employers inside one town.
- Carteret Library, public library
Civil service titles used by New Jersey boards of health
Real classifications that New Jersey boards of health draw on, each linked to its official specification: the definition of the work, the requirements, and any licence the title depends on. A sample of the system rather than a roster or a list of openings.
- Health Officer
- Assistant Health Officer
- Health Officer / Registrar of Vital Statistics
- Registered Environmental Health Specialist, Public Health
- Public Health Nurse
- Senior Public Health Nurse
- Public Health Investigator
- Senior Public Health Investigator
- Public Health Nutritionist
- Public Health Coordinator
Civil service coverage across Middlesex County
Middlesex County holds 19 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 9 municipalities, 5 public libraries, 1 board of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 fire district, and 1 mosquito extermination commission.
9 of the county's 25 municipalities are among them.
Middlesex County is a jurisdiction too, though a county's decision does not bind the towns, authorities, libraries or districts inside it.
Also in the directory: Woodbridge Township, Carteret Borough, Carteret Library, Middlesex County Board of Social Services, Middlesex County Mosquito Extermination, Milltown Borough, New Brunswick, North Brunswick Library. See all 19 in Middlesex County.
Common questions about Carteret Board of Health
Is Carteret Board of Health a civil service employer?
Yes. Carteret Board of Health appears in the New Jersey Civil Service Commission's listing of local civil service system jurisdictions as of July 2024, which makes it an appointing authority under Title 11A. Permanent appointments to competitive titles there come from eligible lists the Commission certifies, rather than from purely local hiring.
Does civil service status at Carteret Board of Health cover the rest of Carteret Borough?
No. Carteret Borough has more than one employer in the listing, and each holds its own status, runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists. Seniority and permanent status earned at one do not transfer automatically to another, even inside the same town.
Do you have to live in New Jersey to work here?
Generally yes. The New Jersey First Act requires public employees hired after September 1, 2011 to live in the state, with a grace period for new hires to relocate and a narrow exemption process. Separately, individual examination announcements sometimes carry a local residency preference, which affects the order of the list rather than eligibility.
Does the state salary schedule apply to local jobs?
No. The salary schedules in the Compensation Compendium cover state employees. A local employer sets its own pay through ordinance and its own collective bargaining, so two towns using the identical civil service title can pay very differently. The title specification is statewide; the money attached to it is local.