Community Health Specialist
Community Health Specialist
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$ 21 - 22
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Description
Job Summary
The Community Health Specialist provides onetime health education on individual group and community levels and offers referrals and prevention/education messages and materials.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Provide HIV HCVand Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) education services to individuals in community settings reaching individuals at highrisk for infection which includes completing a risk assessment and providing risk reduction education messaging
- Provide HIV HCV and Syphilis testing to clients and instruct selfcollection for gonorrhea and chlamydia
- Collect and process blood (fingerstick and venipuncture) specimens and prepare specimens for laboratory processing
- Provide HIV and HCV test results to clients
- Facilitate referrals to medical care Early Intervention services PrEP/PEP navigators and other DAP Health or other health clinic services as needed
- Provide group and communitylevel health education presentations and speak at events regarding riskreduction and community health modalities to reduce individual and community risk for HIV HCV and other infectious diseases. Locations include schools alternative youth programs substance abuse and mental health facilities homeless care organizations jails and correctional facilities and courthouses among others
- Provide support group facilitation that does not utilize a formalized curriculum or evidencebased intervention and does not require adherence with fidelity to a structured curriculum and evaluation component
- Provide education to DAP Health staff as appropriate as well as the community on topics regarding health conditions impacting our service area and strategies to engage members of targeted and impacted populations in care
- Reach out to local schools community centers and other entities to expand our education and outreach services
- Remain wellinformed of how to access community resources helping to guide clients through these systems and communicate information in a manner consistent with agency standards
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation of work
- Keep Electronic Health Record up to date as needed (Epic)
- Establish and maintain positive community relations
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Skills/Abilities
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Education and Experience
- Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross accredited BLS certification
- California Department of Public Health Office of AIDS HIV testing and finger stick certification preferred. If not presented upon hiring it must be completed upon first available training in the region.
- Partner Services Training certificate. If not presented upon hiring it must be completed upon first available training in the region.
- State of California Phlebotomy license. If not presented upon hiring it must be completed upon first available training.
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift 24 pounds
- Operates in an office setting at times and requires frequent times of sitting standing repetitive motion and talking
- Involves contact with patients or patient specimens. Exposure to blood body fluids nonintact skin or tissue specimens required
- Works a flexible schedule including working some evenings and weekends
- Valid CA Drivers License with uptodate auto insurance
- Services may be provided throughout the Coachella Valley. Community settings may include health fairs religious institutions substance abuse treatment facilities homeless organizations high schools and colleges businesses or partner health and social services organizations.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
