Benefits
Paid Time Off & Paid Company Holidays
Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
403(b) Retirement Plan with Company Match
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
$0 Copay for Legacy Provider visits
$0 Copay for prescriptions filled at Legacy Pharmacies
Travel Insurance & Pet Insurance
Subsidized Gym Membership
And much more!
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Location: Legacy Montrose - 1415 California St. Houston, TX 77006
Health Navigation Specialist - Job Overview
Schedule: Monday-Friday (8AM-5PM) | Occasional Saturdays
As a Health Navigation Specialist, you’ll build trusting relationships with community members and Legacy patients while helping them access medical care, stay engaged in treatment, and adhere to medications for HIV prevention or treatment through Legacy Pharmacy partnerships. Your compassion, knowledge, and commitment will help connect people with the care, information, and support they need to move toward better health.
You’ll work in both clinic and community settings to identify individuals who may benefit from prevention services and connect them with Legacy care. As an integrated member of the clinical care team, you’ll help patients navigate the continuum of care within Legacy clinics while providing culturally sensitive and language-appropriate support.
Your Impact
Help community members and patients access HIV prevention, treatment, and primary care services.
Support medication adherence and continued engagement in care through Legacy Pharmacy partnerships.
Provide education related to HIV/STI testing, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP), HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP), medication adherence, and general safer sex practices.
Build collaborative relationships with patients, families, clinical colleagues, community partners, and other stakeholders.
Contribute to a whole-person, team-based approach that supports timely access to care and improved health outcomes.
Work Environment and Growth
Serve in both clinic and community environments where every conversation can help someone take an important step toward better health.
Join an interdisciplinary care team that values collaboration, communication, and meaningful patient relationships.
Use your passion for health education and navigation to make a direct difference in community healthcare.
Position may be partially or fully funded by grant(s).
Key Responsibilities
Implement health education programming in one-on-one and group settings to increase the knowledge of patients to prevent illness, manage health conditions, and improve overall wellness.
Use health education, navigation, disease self-management, goal setting, motivational interviewing, and other proven techniques to meet the specific needs of patients and assist them in setting health-related goals.
Provide information, referrals, and assistance with linkage to services with the goal of improving patients’ independence and overall health while supporting their varying routes throughout Legacy.
Provide point-of-care testing for HIV and other health conditions in community and clinic settings.
Contribute to the development of new health education programming as identified through interactions with individual, clinic, and community participants.
Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary clinic and care team and promote effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Conduct brief assessments of patient behavioral, social, and medical needs; readiness for health behavior change; and progress over time.
Establish and maintain referral processes, resource lists, and other community networks to effectively link patients to needed health information and services.
Work within the context of a primary care medical home, applying a team-based approach to care while partnering with patients and families to promote timely access to care, culturally sensitive and…