Part-time Community Wellness Advocate

About the role

The COMPASS Community Wellness Advocate will work closely with HIV-positive patients, as part of an interdisciplinary team to help HIV positive patients address barriers to treatment adherence, viral load suppression and retention in care through home, field and clinic-based visits.

Responsibilities

• Engage patients who are newly diagnosed and/or facing barriers to treatment adherence, viral load suppression and/or retention in care.
• Provides accompaniments to patients to healthcare and social service appointments.
• Affords assistance to other program staff in screening all patients receiving HIV primary care at Institute sites for COMPASS program eligibility.
• Makes field and clinic-based outreach to re-engage patients to care.
• Follows program policies and procedures for assigned patients to ensure services are delivered according to program track.
• Affords assistance in completing program intakes, reassessments, care plans, case conferences, adherence assessments and other program services/forms within specified time frames.
• Provides individual and group-based health promotion, treatment adherence counseling, risk reduction counseling and case management to assist patients in decreasing barriers to viral load suppression and retention in care, through home, field and clinic-based visit.
• Screens patients for mental health and substance use treatment needs, refers for needed services.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• Person with lived experience with HIV and comfortable disclosing experience and history.
• Computer literacy with proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments at any time.
• Ability to generate, interpret and analyze data from multiple sources.
• Knowledge of social services, particular for individuals with HIV, in the NYC area.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required.
• Person with lived experience with HIV and comfortable disclosing experience and history.
• Computer literacy with proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments at any time.
• Ability to generate, interpret and analyze data from multiple sources.
• Knowledge of social services, particular for individuals with HIV, in the NYC area.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Benefits

This position is a part time position with a hybrid schedule. The ideal candidate will have a work schedule of 2 days in office and 1 day remote*

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Hybrid schedule: 2 days in office and 1 day remote*