Health Worker/Phlebotomist

Heluna Health invites applications for a full time (40 hour/week), benefitted, as-needed Health Worker/Phlebotomist position that is phlebotomy licensed in CA, to work in the San Francisco County Jails.

This program operates under Jail Health Services, an ambulatory care site within the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

The Health Worker/Phlebotomist position will be responsible for the following functions to incarcerated patients who are housed in the San Francisco County Jails: 1) conducting testing for sexually transmitted infections, using both point-of-care (rapid) and conventional (venous) lab-based testing services, including HIV, Hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia infections; 2) disclosing results and providing counseling to the patients for tests completed by Health Worker/Phlebotomist; 3) ensuring appropriate referrals for biomedical HIV and STI prevention, treatment of chronic Hepatitis C infection and treatment of HIV infection. 

This position requires relaying and collecting critical, sensitive information to patients typically from vulnerable backgrounds with low health literacy and high levels of institutional mistrust.  Additionally, the job duties are primarily completed within the living areas within the county jail.  Applicants must have a high degree of comfort and motivation to work with these patient populations within a high stress environment.  While the majority of work functions are performed individually, the position operates within a larger, multidisciplinary group of medical providers and case managers, necessitating excellent communication skills and a high degree of comfort working across different roles, skills and job functions.  

This is a temporary, in person, grant-funded, full-time, benefitted position.

Employment is provided by Heluna Health.

Position requires travel to San Bruno.

Pay Rate: $26.68 per hour

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Cover letter and required for consideration.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS


* Provides rapid point of care and/or conventional lab-based testing for various STI’s including HIV, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia to patients housed in the various SF county jails


* Triages patient medical records for testing history prior to meeting with them for testing services


* Facilitates fingerstick and venous blood specimen collections


* Develops point of care tests, interprets test results, and accurately documents test information on testing logs


* Completes reflex venipuncture specimen collection for confirmatory lab-based testing when a patient has a reactive point of care test result


* Prepares and packages venous blood and urine specimens, following quality assurance procedures, for lab-based testing


* Provides disclosure counseling, education, and immediate linkage to care services for any patient who tests positive


* Distributes test result letters to patients following point of care or lab-based testing servi...