PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide home and field-based services, including health education and other healthcare and social service encounters as required.
- Maintains patient/family confidentiality.
- Maintains close collaboration with HIV TEAM.
- Provides accompaniment to routine primary care appointments and other healthcare and social service encounters as deemed appropriate by Case Managers/Care Coordinators.
- Participates in-group counseling.
- Participates in in-reach and out-reach activities to include telephone calls, home visits and collaboration with Betances Health Center staff and other outside agency.
- Provides home and field-based services.
- Health education counseling.
- Provides Direct Observed Therapy (DOT) and education on treatment adherence.
- Participates in planning/assessment activities.
- Provides ongoing navigation and support including assistance with insurance and other entitlements.
- Provides appointment reminders and linkages to medical and social services.
- Provides feedback to the Care Team based on his/her field observations.
- Peers/Patient Navigators will participate in CQI activities.
KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Experience working with the HIV/AIDS population.
- Peer Certification is required and can be completed while working in this program.
- Self-disciplined: reliable and demonstrably responsible.
- Articulate in presenting ideas and opinions.
- Supportive and demonstrably empathic in his relations to peers.
- Stable and drug-free.
- Exhibiting dialogical evidence of having dealt with issues of HIV infection and/or drug abuse.
- Proficiency in English and/or Spanish, both written and spoken language.
- Commitment to providing quality health care services to all.
- Demonstrated commitment to working with patients and staff from a wide range of ethnic, economic, cultural, and social background.
- Excellent communication skill.
- Professional demeanor.
- Excellent organizational skills.
