Description

Positive Impact Health Centers (PIHC) is a community leader in providing HIV prevention, care, and treatment services. The PIHC model of care assures that persons with HIV have access to medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, and social services, providing the best opportunity for patients to achieve high-quality health outcomes.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Job Summary: The Translife Care Specialist will provide support to the Gender Inclusive Program Manager who focuses services on gender non-conforming persons and/or to persons of transgender experience. This position ensures community members are connected to the services (whether internal or external to PIHC) they are interested in and could benefit from. Engage and retain a minimum of fifty medical and social service, may require use of personal vehicle for work related activities. Create and facilitate different training within the agency and community. Host resources fairs, create a written recruitment plan and recruit participants for different groups, create policies, guidelines and consent forms for said groups. Attend different events in absence of or with program manager. Work well with others and independently for success of program/client’s success. The primary job function of the Translife Care Specialist is to assist with the development, and/or implementation of HIV prevention and agency programming.

This position description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive. It is intended to identify the major responsibilities and requirements of this position. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related responsibilities and tasks other than those stated in this position description.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Duties and Responsibilities

Assist with providing planning, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives that focus on the needs of gender non-conforming persons and/or persons of transgender.
Assist with collaborating with local and national agencies to best serve the needs of the community. To include attending internal and external meetings as needed.
Work closely with IT/Data team to obtain reports showing outcomes of interventions.
Recruit participants for intervention.
Research best practices in service provision for gender non-conforming and persons of transgender experience.
Develop or adopt a gender non-conforming and persons of transgender experience cultural humility training and implement with PIHC staff or other entities as needed.
Comply and update resource lists that are relevant to the needs of the gender non-conforming and persons of transgender experiences.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experience working with culturally diverse populations.
Possess excellent communication skills (writing, spelling, listening, and speaking).
Possess excellent organizational skills.
Ability to work as a team member.
Ability to resolve problems and make decisions.
Ability to work without close supervision.
Ability to respond to assigned tasks in a timely manner.
Utilizes good management techniques and time management.
Ability to follow through with the completion of assigned tasks.
Proficiency in word processing and spreadsheet database.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field (public health, psychology, health education, or health care administration).

Experience:

At least one year of experience in advocating for or providing HIV prevention services or related social services for gender non-conforming persons and/or persons of transgender experience.
Experience working with individuals living with HIV preferred; but not required.

License/Licensure:

N/A

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or operate computers, objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

NOTES:

Positive Impact Health Centers, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, or covered veteran status.
Recreational drugs, weapons, and violence are not permitted on agency property or at any agency events or programs.
The above job description represents the general nature, primary duties and responsibilities, and qualifications for the work performed by employees within this job, but is not a comprehensive and exhaustive list. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned, and specific duties, responsibilities, and activities within the core nature of the job may change at any time with or without notice. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the job, as specified by the employing entity, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or been willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for all jobs, if not currently employed by Positive Impact Health Centers.

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