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Health Educator - HRA/HASA - DR II
Comunilife, Inc.
Description
Comunilife is a premier provider of housing, mental health, and HIV/AIDS services in New York City. Our programs benefit more than 2,500 people each year – helping them overcome challenges related to extreme poverty; chronic homelessness; serious behavioral and medical issues; and linguistic and acculturation barriers.
Our staff members enjoy the benefits of working with a supportive team of supervisors and peers; of receiving in-depth training and ongoing opportunities for professional development; and of being part of an organization that recognizes, celebrates, and promotes personal and cultural strengths.
The Health Care Coordinator is responsible for providing health education and counseling to the HIV/AIDS clients. The Health Care Coordinator must be capable of comprehending complex public health issues and have the ability to articulate recommended prevention strategies. Responsibilities include but not limited to:
• Conducting health assessments and, in collaboration with case managers, assisting in the development of long and short term health related goals.
• Providing assistance in accessing primary medical care; assistance with adherence to medication regiments; activities for daily living; nutritional services; prevention with positives; and other necessary services to clients to increase their capacity for independent living. Also, monitor and ensure that clients are linked to needed services.
• Maintaining an ongoing awareness of clients’ medical conditions so that services are appropriate to changing needs.
• Coordinating health & medical services with the Clinical Team on as needed basis.
• Informing clients of clinical trial programs in HIV/AIDS Programs. Providing clients and staff with ongoing health information. Coordinating and disseminating health information to a wide array of community groups via general correspondence, email, and grassroots outreach.
• Responsible for weekly groups following the Wellness Self-Management model and regarding new research and modalities related to HIV/AIDS health issues. Representing Comunilife in an array of public meetings to promote effective public and HIV/AIDS strategies. Organizing and implementing workshops for clients and staff on health issues especially HIV/AIDS. Networking with community based organizations to improve quality of life for residents. Serving as liaison to the public, ensuring that interactions with Comunilife are efficient and customer-service oriented.
• Providing quarterly training to staff on current HIV/AIDS issues and infection control. Recruiting, coordinating and selecting appropriate HIV/AIDS speakers to enhance outreach work, especially to non-English community.
• Providing all pertinent documentation in clinical chart including medical and nutritional assessments.
• Assisting in the development and organization of an annual agency wide client conference.
• Accompanying clients to medical visits and providing relevant HIV/AIDS education, as needed.
• Performing any other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Knowledge and Skills:
• Extensive knowledge of health issues, i.e., principles and practices of Health Education, and the HIV/AIDS Program regulations.
• Responsible, organized, effective and efficient.
• Ability to perform within a team and accomplish multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Communication skills (effective listening, verbal and written).
• Community minded, patient, creative, flexible, compassionate, and culturally sensitive to persons who are diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness. Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to deal tactfully and diplomatically with other Comunilife employees, Federal, State, and City officials, professional and technical groups, clients, and the general public.
Requirements:
• BSW- Nursing, Bachelors of Science/Health Education/Public Health preferred; and two (2) years full-time satisfactory experience in (a) developing public health education materials, planning educational presentations or workshops, evaluating health education programs (b) presenting public health education programs; and/or (c) counseling in areas such as communicable diseases, substance abuse, assault, sexual abuse, and/or family planning.
• Preference given to persons with direct HIV/AIDS work experience.
• Bilingual, bicultural in Spanish preferred.
• HIV/AIDS certificates/trainings or experience with Community Health Education/Public Health.
Salary
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and an excellent and comprehensive program of benefits for eligible employees that include: health, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, flexible spending accounts, pension, 401K and paid time off.
Contact
To apply please visit our website at http://comunilife.iapplicants.com/
Posted on 11/07/14; CVMHA ID #8314
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