Peer Navigator/SDOH

Position Summary

Responsible for conducting outreach, providing general risk reduction, providing referrals to needed services, distributing HIV/AIDS information and condoms, participating in training and support activities, utilizing data forms to document and report activities performed.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Compliance with Employee Health Services.
  • Conducts community outreach and door to door outreach in targeted areas identified by the Program Manager to meet grant targets.
  • Participates in community health and community fairs as an agency representative.
  • Provides referrals of clients to necessary health and support services in the community, including making appointments for clients at CHN clinic sites.
  • Performs other related duties, as assigned.
  • Identifies community resources and makes contact with such agencies.
  • Escorts clients to necessary services, as appropriate.
  • Documents clients reached through community outreach and report this to the program manager.
  • Distributes HIV/AIDS educational literature and condoms to clients and agencies.
  • Participates in training, in-services, and support activities for peer educators.
  • Facilitates related services for health center patients and CHN staff as appropriate, with respect to their confidentiality and privacy.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

• Compliance with Employee Health Services.
  • Conducts community outreach and door to door outreach in targeted areas identified by the Program Manager to meet grant targets.
  • Participates in community health and community fairs as an agency representative.
  • Provides referrals of clients to necessary health and support services in the community, including making appointments for clients at CHN clinic sites.
  • Performs other related duties, as assigned.
  • Identifies community resources and makes contact with such agencies.
  • Escorts clients to necessary services, if appropriate.
  • Documents clients that were reached through street outreach.
  • Distributes HIV/AIDS education materials and condoms to clients and other agencies.
  • Affords support to CHN’s clinic outreach efforts to targeted populations.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Other Functions

• Identifies community resources and makes contact with other agencies.
• Escorts clients to necessary services, if appropriate.
• Documents clients that were reached through street outreach.
• Distributes HIV/AIDS education materials and condoms to clients and other agencies.
• Affords support to CHN’s clinic outreach efforts to targeted populations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

• Should be a member of the targeted communities and of the targeted service groups.
• Have good communication skills and experience with HIV issues.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates ability to work with HIV-infected individuals.
• Knowledge of geographic area of work site and of language appropriate to the community.
• Interest in and conviction of purpose and aims for all programs in the clinic.
• Respect for the rights of individuals to make their own decisions about their medical care.
• Ability to communicate easily and display a cordial manner towards individuals from a variety of socio-economic, cultural and religious background.