Live Hep C Free

Hepatitis NSW’s Peer Partnership Program works to make it as simple, as quick, and as barrier-free for people living with or at-risk of hep C to access hep C healthcare. Our peer workers partner with healthcare workers (hep C nurses) to offer hep C testing, treatment, and healthcare at services that people are already visiting – methadone clinics, homelessness services, mental health services, needle and syringe program outlets, and residential rehabs.

Peer workers engage with people at these services and encourage them to see the on-site nurse about hep C. Peer workers also help clients to navigate the health system, to understand hep C, and to access the healthcare they need.

We see our peer workers as experts on living with hep C, and our partner nurses as experts on hep C healthcare. Together, peer workers and hep C nurses are helping hundreds of people across NSW access testing, treatment and healthcare for hep C.

Our awesome peer workers play a vital role in the efforts to eliminate hep C as a public health threat by 2028 and the Peer Partnership Program has been enormously successful in working towards this goal. Last year (2023) we achieved:

  • 247 service visits across NSW
  • 5,503 people engaged with by peer workers
  • 3,063 people spoke to the healthcare staff
  • 2,708 people had a hep C test done

We strongly believe in making hep C testing and treatment as easy and simple as possible to access so that people have the opportunity to live healthier, to live better, and to live hep C free.

For more information please contact: Elle

WE’RE RECRUITING!
Lived experience of hep C and cure? Live in the NSW Mid-North Coast?
Contact us about becoming a peer worker! March 2024 

Live Hep C Free Peer Program

The work is rewarding, paid, typically a couple of hours each session, and an exciting way to be part of making hep C history. We offer full training and support; our peer workers are an extremely important and valuable part of the Hepatitis NSW team.

You don’t need any qualifications or previous experience to be perfect for this role. Anyone can be a great peer worker – all you need is lived experience of hep C, a passion for helping others get cured of hep C, and to complete our one day training. We pay our peer workers well, we cover all expenses, we offer paid training, and we provide great opportunities to attend events and conferences. For many of our peer workers, this role has been a great stepping stone to full time, or part time, work in the community health sector.

We’ve got a wonderful team of around 20 peer workers across NSW and we’d love to grow our numbers. No matter what your background is, or what your experience is, if you’ve had hep C in the past, and been cured with the new treatments, then we’d love to hear from you about becoming a peer worker.

Please apply via this confidential form

  • For example... what is your lived experience of treatment/cure of hep C? Do you enjoy connecting and talking with people?

This page last updated 16 November 2020

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