Prevention Counselor provides sexual health and harm reduction health counseling, referral, and testing services in a stigma-free, sex positive, safe space. Work location - 55 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ *This is a not clinical counseling or clinical social work position* Principal Accountabilities: Complete comprehensive assessments, including sexual health screenings, to determine program participants’ suitability for evidence-based risk reduction methods, including PrEP initiation and adherence. + Perform rapid testing services (including for HIV and HCV) for eligible program participants utilizing approved testing algorithms and NJ State Department of Health approved program policies and procedures. + Collect and prepare samples of human fluids for laboratory processing for program participants using approved policies and procedures. + Reduce barriers to medical care and interventions by providing linkage to health insurance, clinical providers, pharmacy services, medication and financial assistance for people at high risk for HIV infection. + Coordinate wraparound services to support program participants in their risk reduction plans, including transportation, clinical referrals, financial counseling and assistance, housing linkage, mental health and substance use referrals and other supportive services. + Regularly monitor program participants to ensure regimen adherence and clinical follow-up visits as per clinical provider assessment and recommendations. + Assist and refer clients with prior authorizations, insurance enrollment and medication assistance programs. + Work collaboratively with clinical providers both internal and external to the Atlantic Health System to ensure appropriate, individualized referrals. + Utilize data entry software and electronic medical records to ensure accurate and HIPAA compliant record keeping. + Provide risk reduction and treatment adherence counseling as appropriate. + Compose comprehensive progress notes using a data, assessment, plan model. + Participate in local public health planning initiatives in line with the Ending the Epidemic strategies. + Engage in community outreach, including collaboration with social media platforms and dating applications and attendance at local health fairs and events. + Monitor and evaluate program and affiliated grants with the support of management. + Collect program data and compile and report program results/indicators. + Provide all services in the clinic as well as travel to venue-based sites to provide services in alternative settings including homeless shelters, drop-in centers, substance use treatment facilities, colleges, and others. Required: Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, or a related field OR working towards a bachelor’s degree with three years of lived or work experience working with people living with HIV and/or at high risk for HIV infection, or LGBTQ+ populations. Preferred: 1. Bilingual English/Spanish ABOUT US At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities, will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include: + Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ + Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ + Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ + Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ + Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ + Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ + CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ + Atlantic Home Care and Hospice + Atlantic Mobile Health + Atlantic Rehabilitation We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners. We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades: + 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years + Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare + 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare + 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review + Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP + Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) + One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine + One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine + Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets + NJ Sustainable Business Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology. We are the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America's '50 Best Hospitals' for six consecutive years by Healthgrades and one of the World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek. We were included on Becker's Healthcare 2020 list of "100 Great Hospitals in America". In addition, Leapfrog recognized us with an "A" hospital safety grade - its highest - twelve consecutive times, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded us again with its highest five-start rating in 2020. Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Nursing Service, the highest level of recognition achievable from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for facilities that provide acute care services. Our nonprofit hospital was also designated a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and a Level II by the State of NJ. 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