Syringe Disposal Shift Supervisor - $28 - $32 - San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY
San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) envisions a future where health justice is achieved for all people living with or at risk for HIV. Ultimately, we strive for a day when race is not a barrier to health and wellness, substance use is not stigmatized, HIV status does not determine quality of life, and HIV transmission is eliminated.
Our mission is to promote health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by HIV through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and partnership.
Our strategic plan includes an articulation of its five key values, which are the foundation for its work and its employees: Justice, Dignity, Courage, Leadership and Excellence. We need passionate agents of social change, vanguards of public health, and practitioners of racial justice to join our fight.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
We are the largest syringe access and disposal program in California and this position is integral to our efforts to remove improperly discarded syringes from circulation, ensure their safe disposal, prevent syringe reuse or sharing, and dispose of syringe litter. The Pick Up Crew activates staff, volunteers, and community members to improve community health and safety through daily scheduled syringe clean-up activities and street-based overdose prevention education. This leadership position ensures disposal activities are assigned and completed each shift, provides day-of support to disposal associates and volunteers assigned to their shifts, communicates updates and incidents to the Manager of Syringe Disposal, and serves as the “manager on duty” for assigned shifts. Finally, this role plays a life-saving role in the communities we serve by providing Narcan to community members in need, coaching community members through an overdose reversal, and providing direct overdose reversals and responses.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.)
Direct Syringe Disposal Activities:
- Pick-up and dispose of improperly discarded syringes in the community adhering to all safety protocols and procedures of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
- Document improperly discarded syringes collected.
- Engage people who inject drugs and other community members on the disposal route with safer disposal health education.
- Develop relationships that increase and support the proper disposal of syringes from people who inject drugs and unhoused people when engaged in syringe clean-up activities.
- Respond to dispatched requests for syringe litter removal.
- Build relationships with people who inject drugs and experience homelessness to support proper syringe disposal.
- Clearing syringe litter from routes and/or areas around San Francisco as assigned.
Syringe Disposal Shift Supervisor Duties:
- Coordinating assigned evening and weekend teams:
- managing text-threads, the schedule, overdose prevention and management roles, knowledge of which MOC to call in an emergency and access to their phone numbers.
- knowledge of which disposal phones are in use.
- conducting check-ins with staff throughout the shift
- Monitoring Life360 for evening and weekend teams:
- making sure location services are on.
- checking to ensure teams are where they should be throughout the shift. (every 30-minutes)
- Relaying shift-information to the program manager
- Maintaining OOTO data.
- Maintaining the PUC car log.
- Managing inventory and restocking needs.
- Coordinating the carrying and management of the Dedicated phone for assigned shifts.
- Being a role-model and setting a standard of excellence for your fellow colleagues.
Overdose Prevention, Assessment, & Response:
The role provides syringe clean-up activities in the field. These street-based routes correspond to locations where people experiencing homelessness use substances and this can result in the need for overdose assessments and responses. There are increasing numbers of people experiencing overdoses outdoors in San Francisco. This is due to a variety of factors such as: displacement experienced by unhoused people and increased availability of stronger opiates on the streets. Responsibilities include:
- Create daily pre-sweep overdose assessment and response plans and carry Narcan.
- Perform wellness assessments to identify possible overdoses when in the field.
- Following overdose assessment, response, and communication protocols in the event of an overdose.
- Documenting and debriefing overdose responses and critical incidents.
Health Education:
- Build ongoing relationships with people who inject drugs and people experiencing homelessness.
- Provide overdose prevention and safer disposal health education in the field.
- Provide people who inject drugs with education and access to safe disposal containers when out on syringe clean-up activities.
- Provide low barrier access to Narcan and overdose prevention education.
- Provide safety training and support for Peer Disposal Program.
- Provide de-escalation, conflict resolution, and crisis interventions as needed.
- Refer people to substance use and health improvement services offered at the Harm Reduction Center and mobile sites.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Knowledgeable about Harm Reduction, social determinants of health, and drug use.
- Ability to implement de-escalation techniques, follow safety protocols, and use sound judgment when making independent decisions.
- Ability to work in street-based settings offering compassionate access to safer disposal, overdose prevention, and response services.
- Good organizational skills, data entry skills, ability to use Microsoft office programs including Excel.
SUPERVISION: Community Clean Up Volunteers
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENTS:
This position requires standing and walking for periods of up to five hours and walking distances of up to 7 miles during a shift. Ability to lift and carry a minimum of 20 pounds. This position requires the ability to use tongs to retrieve improperly discarded syringes, wearing a uniform and carrying safer disposal equipment, and safely use syringe disposal containers. Skill in operating equipment such as a personal computer, copy machine and telephone system. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The position may have exposure to blood borne pathogens and other infectious agents. The position requires work during evenings, weekends and holidays.
Source : San Francisco AIDS Foundation
