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Peer Navigator – Full Time Company Secretary – Volunteer Working with Us

Peer Navigator – HIV Support Services (Meanjin/Brisbane)

Are you a person living with HIV who wants to make a difference?

Are you inspired to support others coming to terms with their HIV diagnosis through sharing your own journey living with HIV?

Queensland Positive People (QPP) are seeking a Peer Navigator to provide client-centred support for people living with HIV, who are experiencing challenges including barriers to HIV care and treatment.

Applications close midnight 17/11/2024 (Brisbane time)

Full-time (38 hours) Monday – Friday with some weekend work required.
Work includes outreach, regular team connections and the promotion of work/life balance.
SACS Award Level 4.1 ($43.08/hr) + super + salary packaging to increase your take home wage.
Supportive organisation with an exciting future of growth and commitment to community.

About working with QPP

We value our amazing team, and the energy and commitment they bring to the job. QPP offers an environment that encourages not only our community to reach their goals but our employees also. From a supportive work/life balance, continuous professional development, to working in an inspiring environment.

Queensland Positive People is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Every year and decade, the landscape of HIV changes – new evidence and technologies emerge and more and more people from diverse backgrounds reach out and become involved. As PLHIV and allies, we are incredibly diverse in age, gender, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, and religion.

About the role

As a Peer Navigator, you will:

Use your lived experience of HIV and apply planned support methods to work with those either newly diagnosed with HIV or those re engaging in treatment and care.
Apply holistic, client-centred and empowerment approaches to work with your clients in identifying needs in peer education and providing practical assistance to navigate the healthcare system.
Assess social determinant barriers and provide referrals to QPP’s Treatment Support Program where necessary.
Participate in care coordination to ensure client goals are met and provide peer linkage, ensuring clients’ retention in care.
Participate in social support activities which can occur outside regular business hours.

Essential requirements

You must be a person living with HIV to apply for this role.
Minimum Certificate III in community or health services or be working towards a similar or higher-level qualification is required.
Hold a current QLD Working with Children Check (Blue Card).
Provide a National Police Check of 6 months currency or evidence that a check has been applied for.
Provide a valid Driver’s license with no restrictions.
Willingness to work outside normal business hours as required.
Ability to travel intra and inter-state as required.

How to apply

Please ensure you can fulfil the essential requirements of the Position Description
To apply, please complete the Employment Application Form and email it along with all the supporting documents to hr@qpp.org.au by midnight (Brisbane time) Sunday, 17^th of November. Interviews will take place on Friday, the 22^nd of November.

For further information contact:

Greg McGuirk
Peer Services Coordinator
gmcguirk@qpp.org.au
0437 703 598

All new employment opportunities will always be posted here and distributed via our Social Media.

Company Secretary – Volunteer

About the opportunity

The Queensland Positive People Board is in need of company secretarial support and is searching for an enthusiastic volunteer who may wish to gain experience working alongside the Board President who is an experienced CoSec and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. This is a great opportunity to learn hands on skills from an experienced professional while working alongside passionate Board members and management who constantly seek to innovate and improve their services to the PLHIV community. We are vibrant, fun, innovative and energetic in everything we do. You will also gain extensive knowledge of public health funding.

Support requirements including:

Setting Board and Committee Agendas
Paper collation and review
Minute Taking
AGM preparation
Statutory filing support
Supporting the Board President

About QPP

Queensland Positive People Inc. (QPP) was established in 1989 as a not for profit peer-led community organisation. QPP is now a multi-disciplinary team committed to improving the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and reducing new infections of HIV and STIs across Queensland. This is achieved through a number of initiatives including peer support, community engagement, peer navigation, case management, HIV and STI testing initiatives, legal support, policy development, advocacy and research.

The organisation provides services across Queensland and currently employs 38 staff located in Brisbane (primary office and clinic located in East Brisbane and Fortitude Valley), Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and on the Sunshine and Gold Coasts.

To apply

Please note that it is a requirement for the role to be eligible to work in Australia, hold a Queensland Blue Card and obtain a Criminal Record Check.

Please contact the QPP President to discuss this opportunity president@qpp.org.au

All new employment opportunities will always be posted here and distributed via our Social Media.

Working with Us

Queensland Positive People (QPP), is a peer-led, community-based organisation committed to improving the lives of all people living with HIV across Queensland. We provide programs and services including peer support and navigation, peer HIV/STI prevention and testing, HIV treatment and management, together with support and advocacy around stigma and discrimination, ageing and disability, mental health and community education. In short, we help people live well with HIV.

At Queensland Positive People, we pursue a workforce that is as diverse as our community – in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and belief – and reflects the communities we work in. We recognise diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and we are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.

We strongly encourage applications from people living with HIV, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, and people of diverse genders and/or sexual orientations.