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Apicha Community Health Center aims to improve community health by providing access to comprehensive primary care, preventive health services, mental health, and supportive services. The center is dedicated to delivering high-quality, culturally competent services that enhance the quality of life. It also advocates for and offers a welcoming environment for underserved and vulnerable populations.

Position Summary: This position conducts outreach to recruit low income, high-risk HIV negative and HIV positive individuals of the Lower East Side and Chinatown into HIV prevention services and primary care, identifies persons with HIV who remain undiagnosed and link them to health care, links and retains persons diagnosed with HIV in care and treatment to maximize virus suppression, to improve their health and prevent further transmission; links and retains persons diagnosed with HIV to health care and get them on anti-HIV therapy to maximize HIV viral suppression so they remain healthy and prevent further transmission; assists in navigating clients to be linked to and maintained in primary care and specialty services, mental health, substance use as well as prevention services; conducts health education activities; conducts HIV/STI screening; assists with testing events and health fairs.   This position will work collaboratively with agency staff from various departments, represent the agency at various venues to promote agency services, collect all required data and submit required documents in a timely manner, following agency protocol, and assist with quality assurance and quality improvement (CQI) tasks

The major duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

Outreach and Direct Service

• Conducts outreach to recruit low income, high-risk HIV negative and HIV positive individuals of the Lower East Side and Chinatown into HIV prevention services and primary care.
• Identify persons with HIV who remain undiagnosed and link them to health care.
• Link and retain persons diagnosed with HIV in care and treatment to maximize virus suppression, to improve their health and prevent further transmission.
• Link and retain persons diagnosed with HIV to health care and get them on anti-HIV therapy to maximize HIV viral suppression so they remain healthy and prevent further transmission.
• Assist in navigating clients to be linked to and maintained in primary care and specialty services, mental health, substance use as well as prevention services.
• Conducts health education activities.
• Conduct HIV/STI screening. Assist with testing events and health fairs.

Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with agency staff from various departments.
• Represent the agency at various venues to promote agency services.

Compliance

• Collect all required data and submit all required documents in a timely manner, following agency protocol.
• Assist with quality assurance and quality improvement (CQI) tasks.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of working experience required. Some college education with 1 year of working experience preferred.
• Energetic and motivated to achieve the agency mission.
• Strong socio-cultural identification with the target population or experience in working with target population required.
• Ability to recruit from target population required.
• Ability to work with diverse populations.
• Ability to work flexible hours including some evenings and weekends.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and stressful environment.
• Fluency in Spanish or Mandarin language is strongly preferred.
• Ability to use public transportation is required.
• Ability to communicate well in English required.
• Ability to use common office computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required.
• Ability to work within organizational structure with multi disciplinary team environment required.
• Ability to provide HIV testing within 30 days of starting work.

At Apicha, we believe that serving the needs of our staff is just as important as serving the needs of underserved people of New York City as such we are proud to offer our team members a competitive employee benefits package which include 11 Paid Holidays, vacation and sick leave, Health Insurance Coverage, Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Employee Assistant Program just to name a few.