HIV Navigation Specialist

Via Care Community Health Center; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Via Care Community Health Center seeks an HIV Navigation Specialist to provide outreach, rapid HIV testing, care coordination, and case management for individuals at risk for or living with HIV. The role connects clients to PrEP/PEP and HIV medical care and supportive resources.

Collaborating with East LA Women’s Center and CHICAS program staff, the specialist promotes engagement in care, treatment adherence, and evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce HIV transmission.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills for outreach and education.
• Solid understanding of HIV, treatment, PrEP/PEP.
• Experience in care coordination and case management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach and education with target populations in partnership with East LA Women’s Center Promotoras.
• Provide rapid HIV testing and confidential risk assessments.
• Coordinate access to PrEP/PEP and linkage to HIV medical care and support services.
• Assist with navigation around treatment adherence and partner services.

Skills

Excellent communication

HIV knowledge

Care coordination

PrEP/PEP education

HIPAA compliance

Teamwork

Multitasking

Cultural competence

Educational outreach

Job description

Job Summary

The HIV Navigation Specialist provides outreach, education, HIV rapid testing, care coordination, and case management services to support individuals at risk for or living with HIV. This role helps connect clients to prevention services, including PrEP and PEP, as well as HIV medical care and supportive resources.

Job Summary

The HIV Navigation Specialist provides outreach, education, HIV rapid testing, care coordination, and case management services to support individuals at risk for or living with HIV. This role helps connect clients to prevention services, including PrEP and PEP, as well as HIV medical care and supportive resources.

Working collaboratively with healthcare providers and community partners, the HIV Navigation Specialist promotes engagement in care, treatment adherence, partner services, and evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce the spread of HIV.

Essential Functions

• Conducts outreach, engages and provides educational components to target population in partnership with East LA Women’s Center Promotoras.
• Provides rapid HIV testing and confidential risk assessment to determine the HIV prevention needs of the clients whether test results are positive or negative; this includes the registration, and planning of prevention services.
• Responsible for providing Rapid HIV testing on-site and through outreach into the community, where the target population socializes and/or congregate as needed.
• Provides access to biomedical prevention services (PrEP/PEP), ensuring access, follow-up, and adherence to PrEP/PEP, including supportive services that can enhance risk reduction, behavior change, adoption, and maintenance.
• Provide first-time medication drop off to client’s within 5-10 mile radius.
• Provides, and ensures access to the screening of STIs.
• Provides positive HIV test results to individuals who have tested positive for HIV.
• Responsible for providing navigation assistance with HIV clinical care around treatment adherence, partner services, and case management for clients who test positive for HIV.
• Collaborate with Program Director and East LA Women’s Center staff to adapt Sister-to-Sister Evidenced Based Intervention for cisgender, heterosexual, Latina women.
• Attend and assist ELAWC staff with conducting Sister-to-Sister interventions.
• Collaborates with project staff in advertising and media promotion of the CHICAS program.
• Maintains communication between inter, and intra-agency services providers for successful coordination of services.
• Maintains records of all activities
• Attendance at required agency meetings, and external meetings with other local providers.
• Assists in documenting program activities and reports outcomes to Department Director along with entering data into appropriate system.
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of computer applications and great phone etiquette is a must.
• Ability to multitask, work well in teams, and be highly detailed orientated.
• Being respectful and culturally competent is also needed, along with being compassionate and identifying with patient needs and concerns.
• Must have knowledge of HIV, HIV Treatment/Care, and PrEP/PEP, and ability to educate about HIV, HIV Treatment/Care, and PrEP/PEP.
• Ability to complete the following trainings/certifications as needed: HIV 101, Basic 1 HIV Tester/Counselor Certification, PrEP 101, Partner Services, and Motivational Interviewing (to disclose positive HIV results) is also a must.
• Knowledge of HIPAA and be able to communicate knowledge about biomedical infections (HIV, HCV, and STDs).
• Knowledge of social services and referrals for patients. Must be comfortable working in a clinical setting with providers and medical personnel.