JOB TITLE: Community HTS Assistant
JOB LOCATION: Nasarawa State
Reports to: Prevention Coordinator
JOB DETAILS:
- To reader quality counselling and psychosocial support to clients. Refer clients for appropriate additional psychosocial and clinical support.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
HTS Duties:
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- Provide HIV Testing Services to all clients willing to conduct HIV test.
- Participates in the coordination of community outreaches and campaigns.
- Support the linkage of clients newly diagnosed with HIV to care, support and treatment and HIV negative clients to appropriate HIV prevention services.
- Keep comprehensive directory of facilities offering ART and other related prevention services.
- Provide support to decentralized HTS points to provide quality services,
- Provide support (where needed) in ensuring a coordinated inventory management and ensure supply of RTKs and consumables to HTS sites.
- Ensure HTS data collection and reporting tools are available and are regularly updated to ensure completeness at all times
Adherence Counselling duties:
- Collaborate with other health care professionals (doctor, nurse, social worker, community health care worker, home-based caregiver, psychologist.) in maintaining treatment protocol.
- Counsel and refer patients and family on disease prevention and staying healthy.
- Support adherence counselling for patients on HIV treatment and document the session outcomes in the counselling form.
- Provide ongoing psychosocial counselling and other form of support to PLHIV.
- Provide support for activities of PLHIV support groups in the community and contribute to racking lost to follow up cases.
- Treatment literacy and general duties.
- Support the conduct of treatment literacy sessions for patients prior to ART initiation and provide them with the clinical and laboratory goals of ARV’s.
- Identify clients who are defaulting and furnish team with relevant information for intervention.
- Communicate weekly updates to supervisor by noting challenges encountered with recommendations and planning for the next weeks’ activities.
- Prepare monthly report on services rendered for submission to supervisor.
- Participate in team de-briefing sessions.
- Enter client visit details into the relevant psychosocial register.
- Any other tasks that may be assigned
Education and Experience
- Diploma in Psychology, Sociology and other related discipline for AIDS Treatment Training Certificate for counseling Skills Training.
- Degree or Diploma in Child and Youth Development would be an advantage.
- HTS and adherence counseling experience is an added advantage.
- Must be proficient in MS Office.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Application (CV and Cover Letter as one document) to: [email protected] Kindly indicate the position and the Location you are applying for as the subject of the email.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Also your application document must be saved in your full name preferably in MS Word or PDF format.
Deadline: August 12, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Assistant, Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical |