Union Township Board of Health
Board of Health · Union County
Union Township Board of Health is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a board of health in Union County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Union County has 23 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 23 civil service jurisdictions in Union County, or browse the full employer directory.
Pension and salary data for Union Township Board of Health
Union Township Board of Health's staff appear on Union Township's pension rolls: 462 enrolled members, a median pensionable salary of $95,821 and a median 11.5 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 Union County for the ones that do report, or how we compile this.
Other public employers in Union Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Union Township. 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 |
|---|---|
| UNION COUNTY | 1,259 |
| UNION TWP BD OF ED (UNION) | 1,029 |
| UNION TOWNSHIP (UNION) | 462 |
| UNION CO BD OF SOCIAL SERVICES | 402 |
| UNION TOWNSHIP LIBRARY | 18 |
| UNION CO UTILITIES AUTHORITY | 10 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Union Township 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.
Permanent employees carry layoff rights. In a layoff, rights are determined by permanent status and seniority within the affected unit, displacement into another title can be available, and laid-off employees go onto a special reemployment list that takes priority when the title is filled again. None of that applies to provisional or temporary service.
Admission to an examination is decided on paper before anyone sits down to take it. The requirements printed in the specification are checked against what you wrote on the application, so experience you did not describe is experience that does not count. Vague employment history is the most common reason a qualified applicant never reaches the list.
Civil service employers in Union Township
Union Township Board of Health serves Union Township, a township in Union County, but it is in the listing as a board of health on its own account rather than as part of the township government.
The Union Township government is listed too: Union Township. 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 Union Township body is listed as well, which puts three separate civil service employers inside one town.
- Union Township 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 Union County
Union County holds 23 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 9 public libraries, 9 municipalities, 2 boards of health, 2 housing authorities, and 1 county government.
9 of the county's 21 municipalities are among them.
Union 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: Rahway, Rahway Library, Roselle Borough, Roselle Library, Scotch Plains, Scotch Plains Library, Union Township, Union Township Library. See all 23 in Union County.
Common questions about Union Township Board of Health
Is Union Township Board of Health a civil service employer?
Yes. Union Township 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 Union Township Board of Health cover the rest of Union Township?
No. Union Township 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.
Are there jobs here that never go through an examination?
Yes. Unclassified positions, which typically include department heads and confidential staff, are filled at the discretion of the appointing authority. Noncompetitive and labor titles inside the classified service are also filled without a competitive examination, though they still sit under civil service rules for things like layoff rights.
Is there always a written test?
No. New Jersey runs both assembled examinations, where candidates are scheduled to sit a test, and unassembled ones, where a reviewer scores your education and experience against the requirements in the specification and there is no test day at all. The announcement says which kind it is. For an unassembled examination the application itself is the examination, so how fully you describe your experience is the score.