HIV Outreach Specialist-Ryan White Program

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Job Requisition ID:

R00049609

Job Category:

Allied Health

Organization:

SOM-Medicine-ID HIV-Nurse Case Managers

Location/s:

Jackson Medical Mall

Job Title:

HIV Outreach Specialist-Ryan White Program

Job Summary:

To provide direct and indirect client services to support linkage and retention in care for HIV/AIDS clients, supports all aspects of community engagement and outreach, seeks and connects PLWH (People Living with HIV) to available support services. Counsels medication adherence, and safe sex practices. Candidates do not have to have a diagnosis of HIV infection.

Education & Experience

Education and Experience Required: Degree (Associate or Bachelor) or High School Diploma/GED and two (2) years of peer counseling, community outreach, or case management experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required:

N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Interviewing skills. Knowledge of customer service principles and procedures, knowledge of community engagement, and health related issues, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies; ability to multi-task and use creative problem solving. Must be comfortable discussing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, alternate lifestyles, and associated risks with peers.

Must be comfortable engaging individuals who may be mentally ill, homeless, HIV positive, or have substance abuse issues. Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Provides specialized, non-medical support for PLWH, including peer counseling, outreach activities, and HIV education to clients or potential clients.
  • Locates and re-engages PLWH who have been lost to HIV care, determining the barriers that contributed to them leaving care and addressing those barriers.
  • Facilitates linkage to care by maintaining open communication with PLWH using various communication techniques.
  • Maintains ongoing contact with current clients who are at a higher risk of dropping out of HIV care.
  • Collaborates with others to provide HIV/STD education and linkage to care to those priority populations who are more at risk for HIV.
  • Collaborates with internal and external individuals and agencies to connect clients to available services and resources available to PLWH.
  • Inputs data and helps maintain Ryan White specific databases in order to meet all Ryan White reporting requirements and facilitates and maintains tracking and reporting of calls, community engagement and outreach activities also for reporting purposes.
  • The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.
Physical and Environmental Demands: Requires occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of q
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