COORDINATOR - UNCL PT WAE

State of Louisiana; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

The Northwest Louisiana Human Services District seeks a Coordinator UNCL PT to provide HIV Outreach Services across nine parishes. The role is a part-time, unclassified WAE position with a 1245-hour annual cap and a 20-hour work week, located at the Shreveport Behavioral Health Clinic in Shreveport, LA.

Travel within the nine parishes is required. Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED and, ideally, lived experience in recovery.

Qualifications

• Possession of a High School diploma or GED.
• May have lived experience with at least 1 year in Recovery.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Outreach Worker using the NIDA model to reduce HIV and other infections among substance users.
• Contact, communicate and follow up with high-risk substance abusers, their associates, and neighborhood residents while respecting confidentiality requirements (42 CFR part 2).
• Promote awareness among injecting drug abusers about the link between injecting drug use and diseases like HIV.
• Suggest steps to prevent HIV transmission and encourage entry into treatment.
• Reach out to out-of-treatment drug users and gain commitment to HIV/AIDS risk reduction.
• Provide HIV prevention services to high-risk populations in various settings (community health, hospitals, clinics, treatment centers).
• Coordinate across settings to enhance impact and reduce duplicated services.
• Maintain an outreach tracking log with dates, locations, contacts and activities.

Skills

Trust building

Clear communication

Organizational skills

Record keeping

Networking with at-risk groups

Boundaries

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

The Northwest Louisiana Human Services District's mission is to increase public awareness of and to provide access for individuals with behavioral health and developmental disabilities to integrated community based services while promoting wellness, recovery and independence through education and the choice of a broad range of programmatic and community resources.

Our vision is the Northwest Louisiana Human Services District exists so that individuals with mental health, addictive disorders, and developmental disabilities residing in the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and Webster are empowered, and self-determination is valued such that individuals live a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life.

We are seeking a Coordinator UNCL PT position to provide HIV Outreach Services in our 9 parishes.

This position will be with the NW LA Human Services District - Shreveport Behavioral Health Clinic located at 1310 N Hearne Avenue Shreveport, LA 71107. The incumbent will have to travel within our nine parishes.

This position is an Unclassified WAE (When Actually Employed) Part-time position. The incumbent may not exceed 1245 hours in a 12 month period. This will be 20 hours per week.

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring and retention of individuals with disabilities.

This agency participates in the E-Verify system for verification of citizenship and employment authorization.

For further information about this vacancy contact:

NW LA Human Services District
Human Resources
1310 N Hearne Ave
Shreveport, LA 71107
318-676-5111

Possession of a High School diploma or GED.

May have 'lived experience' with at least 1 year in Recovery.

Needed Skills

• Ability to establish trust
• Communicate effectively
• Organizational skills
• Accurate record keeping
• Successfully network with groups of individuals at risk
• Recognize and maintain appropriate boundaries

To serve as an Outreach Worker using the NIDA model of community-based outreach to reduce the risk of HIV and other blood-borne infections in substance users.

• Contacts, communicates and follows-up with high risk substance abusers, their associates, and neighborhood residents, within the constraints of Federal and State confidentiality requirements, including 42 CFR part 2.
• Promotes awareness among injecting drug abusers about the relationship between injecting drug abuse and communicable diseases such as HIV.
• Recommends steps that can be taken to ensure that HIV transmission does not occur.
• Encourages entry into treatment.
• Access out-of-treatment drug users at risk and elicits their commitment to HIV/AIDS risk reduction.
• Provides HIV prevention services to high risk populations in a wide range of settings, including community health and social service agencies, hospitals and clinics, and drug treatment and correctional facilities.
• Coordinates across settings enhancing intervention impact and reduces unnecessary service duplication.
• Maintains outreach tracking log detailing outreach dates, locations, contact person(s) and outreach activities.