Late Night Outreach Worker

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services•San Francisco, CA

just now•$31•Onsite

About The Position

The Late Night Outreach Worker will be responsible for staffing the late-night mobile outreach program, focusing on distributing supplies and administering STI testing to street-based sex workers, people who use drugs and people who are unhoused in San Francisco with a focus on queer, transgender, and intersex people, and people of color. There are two late night shifts per week, and they are typically scheduled to occur from 10pm-2am.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree OR minimum 1 year of work experience in community health, social services, harm reduction, or social justice settings.
Strong demonstrated experience and knowledge in: conflict resolution, restorative justice, and de-escalation; maintaining appropriate boundaries with community members; cultural competency, humility and commitment to health equity and harm reduction.
Experience working with lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex communities.
Experience working with populations with varying disabilities, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and economic statuses.
Experience working with people who do sex work, those experiencing homelessness, people who have mental illness and/or use drugs, those of with a history of incarceration, people of varying ages.
A strong commitment to gender affirming health care and health care access for underserved populations.
Must be able to work 10pm-2am.
Strong commitment to overdose prevention work and working with people who use drugs.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to be flexible and responsive to change.
Willingness to be an ambassador at events on behalf of Lyon-Martin

Responsibilities

Coordinate Outreach Program: Alongside Director, distribute harm reduction supplies including but not limited to syringes/needles, Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and other drug use supplies, food/water, safer sex supplies, first aid supplies, hygiene supplies, street sleeping supplies such as tents and sleeping bags; facilitate Narcan trainings, drug test strip trainings; administer COVID testing and vaccination; administer STI testing; through our Street-Based Outreach program.
Connect community members to our clinic services: Primary care, Gender Affirming Care, Suboxone, HIV/Hep C care, Gynecological Care, Mental Health Services, etc.
Maintain inventory of supplies, coordinate orders when needed.
Participate in monthly Outreach team meetings.
Collaborate with the Director to plan and staff various community engagement events and trainings for community members (and staff when appropriate).
Maintain and distribute the Bad Date List
Collect, track and report data for all activities and submit to the Director in a timely manner (at minimum monthly, submitted by the 5th day of the next month).
Document thoroughly in Electronic Health Record as needed in a timely manner.
Table at events to educate community members about our services and to distribute harm reduction supplies to community members (as needed).
Work closely with community partner organizations to educate them about our services.
And, other duties as assigned.