Job Title: Peer Specialist (Part-time) 20 hours

Department: Check Hep C - 6202

Reports To: Check Hep C Peer Navigator

Location: BOOM!Health Harm Reduction Center

Job Summary: This role is a crucial part of the harm reduction counseling team, responsible for providing a diverse range of office and street-based harm reduction services to active substance users, injection drug users (IDUs), sex workers, and individuals living with Hepatitis C (HCV). As a Peer Educator, you will be conducting outreach and linking individuals to our Check Hepatitis C program, while providing educational discussions.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· Perform outreach activities and prevention education, and recruit high-risk, hard-to-reach injection drug users, other drug users, and sex workers to the Check Hep C program.

· Ability to work as part of a mobile outreach team

· Ability to work with people who use drugs

· Gather participant feedback to ensure that the agencies we refer to are treating them with respect

· Escort participants to access HCV medical care and supportive services to facilitate the treatment and their cure of HCV.

· Maintain accurate, complete, and understandable data collection sheets when conducting outreach.

· Provide daily data collection sheets to the Check Hep C Patient Navigator for review at the end of each day's work shift.

· Maintain a professional working relationship with participants

· Maintain a professional working relationship with healthcare providers and community agencies providing services to participants.

· Package harm reduction supplies for distribution to participants whenever necessary

· Ability to use good judgment regarding confidentiality issues

· Ability to help clients identify risk reduction strategies (safer sex, safer drug use, needle exchange, etc.

· Make referrals to internal programs for services that we provide.

· Qualifications/Criteria:

· Develop knowledge of infectious disease transmission and prevention practices for injectors (HIV, Hepatitis C, Opiate Overdose Prevention, health education, outreach strategies, harm reduction theory and practice)

· Ability to complete and understand outreach data collection sheets.

· Must attend scheduled training by the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute-Harm Reduction Unit on Needle Stick and Law Enforcement

· Must attend all assigned HCV and harm reduction trainings, to include training in Confidentiality Laws

· Ability to accurately and neatly collect demographic data on data collection forms

· Available to work a flexible weekday schedule

· Physically able to climb stairs, move and lift boxes and supply packs weighing up to 20 pounds

· Bilingual (Spanish) preferred

Education:

No Requirements

Salary: $16,640.00 per year (20 hours per week)

DISCLAIMER:

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed for this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for this position. Argus Community, Inc. reserves the right to change, add, or delete, at any time, any part of this job description to meet the needs of the Agency.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $16,640.00 per year

Expected hours: 20 per week

Benefits:

• 403(b)
• 403(b) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Bronx, NY 10451 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Bronx, NY 10451: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person