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Gay Men’s HIV Prevention Coordinator
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METRO Charity
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: £2,318.80 GBP-£28,976 GBP / yearly
- Work schedule: Part-time/ Pro-rata
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 08/09/2023
- Location: United Kingdom
Main tasks
- Provide outreach and brief sexual & holistic health interventions at commercial venues and events across London.
- Undertake HIV Point of Care testing (POCT) in outreach settings, agency POCT sites and within our mobile clinic bus. This will involve working within some sex on premises
commercia venues - Work closely with communities most at risk of HIV acquisition, predominantly GBMSM, but also migrant, Trans and Black African communities.
- Promote the campaign messaging generated by the London HIV Prevention Programme and HIV Prevention England.
- Recruit, coordinate and support a team of outreach volunteers.
- Work closely with METRO's other HIV prevention and HIV support teams.
- Signpost/support individuals to sexual health, GUM and other clinical services as appropriate. This includes referrals for PrEP, supporting treatment adherence, and more holistic health support.
- Develop links and take the lead in maintaining effective communications with commercial venues, clinics and other agencies in assigned regions).
- Provide a lead liaison role between venues and condom/lube providers (Freedoms) providing site intel directly to Freedoms about stock and resources, and any other feedback to direct line management.
- Assist with developing and delivering sexual health and HIV awareness trainings for commercial venue staff and other groups as directed.
- Collect and input relevant data during and after outreach and community testing sessions and record and submit shift reports and case studies.
- Attend and support a METRO/MI presence at key events through out the year such as
Pride, Black Pride, National Testing Week - Support with testing and identifying clients against late HIV diagnosis and those who may be lost to care.
- Keep abreast of medical, social and epidemiological developments in the fields of HIV/AIDS, sexual health.
- Attend meetings of METRO, GMI Partnership and external agencies and groups as agreed with line manager and METRO management.
- Complete the required training to comply with quality assurance processes.
- Abide by health and safety guidelines and share responsibility for own safety and that of colleagues and clients
Person specification
- Identifies as male (Equality act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1)
- Education/Experience in health, social work or other relevant qualification, or deemed comparable experience
- 2 years relevant experience of providing behavioural change interventions in an outreach setting
- Experience of working with and coordinating volunteers
- Experience of working with
- GBMSM and an understanding of issues affecting this client group
- Experience of providing Point of Care testing and supporting clients with basic STI sampling (training will be provided)
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