Prevention Specialist

Job Type
Full-time
Description
HVCS a division of Cornerstone Family Healthcare is actively recruiting for a Prevention Specialist to join our growing team in Hawthorne.
RATE OF PAY/SALARY: $24.73 per hour
WORK LOCATION(S): Hawthorne
STATUS:FT
CORNERSTONE BENEFITS:
Competitive salaries I Health Benefits I Retirement plan I Paid Time Off I Sick Time
Flexible Spending I Dependent Care I Paid Holidays
CORNERSTONE'S MISSION:
Cornerstone Family Healthcare is a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center with a mission to provide high quality, comprehensive, primary and preventative health care services in an environment of caring, dignity and respect to all people regardless of their ability to pay. For more than fifty years, Cornerstone has been responsive to meeting the needs of the communities in which we serve with a continued emphasis on the underserved and those without access to health care regardless of race, economic status, age, sex, sexual orientation or disability.
JOB SUMMARY:
Under the supervision of the Program Coordinator, the Prevention Specialist is a member of the Lower Hudson Syringe Exchange Program (SEP) team, a mobile van-based outreach operation, which provides harm reduction supplies and referrals to people who inject/use drugs (PWID/PWUD) in Westchester County. The Prevention Specialist will:

• Conduct outreach to individuals at high risk at the community level as well as within drug rehabilitation centers, shelters, soup kitchens, and other community-based organizations to publicize program services and recruit potential clients.
• Provide SEP services to PWID within Westchester County.
• Provide referrals and referral follow-up to drug treatment, entitlements, medical treatment, and HIV/HCV/STI services where applicable.
• Complete data entry into database system, data should be entered correctly for each intervention and service. Data must be entered in a timely manner.
• Observe and abide by HIPAA and the HIV Confidentiality Law.
• Maintain ongoing relationships with administrators and staff at community-based resources and local police where the program will provide services.
• Responsible for the oversight and proper maintenance of the agency vehicle.
• Responsible for providing services and maintaining program inventory of STSEP services, providing syringes and harm reduction services to priority population.
• Conduct screening, intake, enrollment, and follow-up of clients in the program and enter client data into the agency's database in a timely manner consistent with agency policies.
• Review, develop and continually assess the demands for services in the communities where SEP provides services and develop programming as needed.
• Provide referrals to drug treatment, entitlements, medical treatment, and HIV/HCV/STI services where applicable.
• Responsible for quality assurance activities, including maintaining client charts within program standards and ensuring compliance with goals and objectives in the annual workplan.
• Complete the mandated continuing education trainings as selected and scheduled by the Program Supervisor.
• Participate in individual and team supervisions and attend department meetings.
• Assist in program coverage as needed.
• Attend and participate in monthly department, All Staff, and other required meetings.
• Be familiar with Cornerstone policies and procedures and the Employee Handbook.
• Maintain confidentiality of all aspects of Cornerstone including, but not limited to, patient confidentiality, financials, and employee relations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in education, health, human services, or related field with experience in outreach, HIV/HCV or STI counseling and prevention.
• Or an Associates Degree with two years of experience in peer education, HIV/AIDS counseling and/or disease prevention will be considered.
• Or High School Diploma with four years of experience in peer education, HIV/AIDS counseling and/or disease prevention will be considered.
• Minimum of one year experience working with PWUD, knowledge of HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, mental health and/or community resources.

Salary Description
$45,000 yearly ($24.73 per hour)