HIV Outreach Specialist

About the role

Job Summary: To provide direct and indirect client services to support linkage and retention in care for HIV/AIDS clients, supports all aspects of community engagement and outreach, seeks and connects PLWH (People Living with HIV) to available support services. Counsels medication adherence, and safe sex practices. Candidates do not have to have a diagnosis of HIV infection.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialized, non-medical support for PLWH, including peer counseling, outreach activities, and HIV education to clients or potential clients.
• Locates and re-engages PLWH who have been lost to HIV care, determining the barriers that contributed to them leaving care and addressing those barriers.
• Facilitates linkage to care by maintaining open communication with PLWH using various communication techniques.
• Maintains ongoing contact with current clients who are at a higher risk of dropping out of HIV care.
• Collaborates with others to provide HIV/STD education and linkage to care to those priority populations who are more at risk for HIV.
• Collaborates with internal and external individuals and agencies to connect clients to available services and resources available to PLWH.
• Inputs data and helps maintain Ryan White specific databases in order to meet all Ryan White reporting