Bilingual Health Educator & Navigator (HIV/STI)

La Clinica del Pueblo; Hyattsville (MD); On-site; USD 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

La Clínica del Pueblo in Hyattsville, MD seeks a Health Educator and Navigator to provide sexual, HIV, and STI education and navigation to prevention services for clients. A key component is navigation to essential social support services, with responsibilities across outreach, education, and coordination.

The role requires bilingual English/Spanish communication, community health experience, and the ability to move between sites as needed, with on-site work in multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in health field, or related discipline, or an equivalent two-year combination.
• Bilingual, Spanish-English / bi-cultural.
• One year of experience working in community health settings.
• Two years’ experience working in service delivery with the Latino immigrant community and/or multi-ethnic community.
• Two years of experience in maintaining and enhancing networking efforts with community stakeholders for navigation services.
• Comprehensive knowledge of social determinants of health, learning, and behavior change theories.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group health education to patients and participants on sexual health topics.
• Implement evidence-based health psychoeducation interventions tailored to the needs of patients and participants that are living with HIV or at high risk.
• Support manager in the coordination of events to recruit and engage high-risk clients for HIV and provide interventions for risk-reduction and behavioral change.
• Coordinate with other staff members and/or peer health promoters to planned events, as needed.
• Navigate clients to appropriate health and social resources to meet needs and goals.
• Develop individual plans to navigate clients to the identified services needed.
• Support bilingual health promotion activities and implementation of community events.

Job description

La Clínica del Pueblo in Hyattsville, MD seeks a Health Educator and Navigator to provide sexual, HIV, and STI education and navigation to prevention services for clients. A key component is navigation to essential social support services, with responsibilities across outreach, education, and coordination.

The role requires bilingual English/Spanish communication, community health experience, and the ability to move between sites as needed, with on-site work in multiple locations.