Right to Care
Job Description
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Grade 12 Certificate
- Diploma in Psychosocial Counselling or any Social related field.
- Basic HIV\AIDS training
- 2 years’ experience in counselling supervision
TECHNICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Problem solving skills
- Counselling skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- supervision skills (guiding, supporting)
- Good interpersonal skill
- Personal management skills
- HTS linkage Viral Load HVST
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
- Providing pre- and post-counselling to patients
- Conducting health education to HIV\AIDS\TB patients
- Identifying problems and setting priorities with the patient
- Assist patients in making informed decisions
- Reassuring patients about the confidentiality when doing pre-and post-counselling
- To provide ongoing appropriate, supportive counselling to HIV, ART, and TB patients, with appropriate referral to other Supportive services
- Detect and report barriers to adherence
- To provide education and information on HIV / STI / TB and ART related issues in the community
- Build up rapport between patient and workplace
- Participate in community awareness and education initiatives and be a link between, family, community, patient, and the clinic
- Liaise between patient in the community / workplace and a health facility for entering to care
- Presenting reports to multidisciplinary team for inputs
- Referral of patients to relevant departments
- Entering into the daily register each patient counselled or educated i. e. their age, gender etc.
- Communicate the statistics to the Line manager by the 25th of each month.
- Compile and store regular reports relating to RTC – supported HIV service as required by RTC management.
About the Organization
Right to Care is at the vanguard in supporting and delivering prevention, care, and treatment services for HIV and associated diseases. We work with government and communities to find pioneering solutions to build and strengthening public healthcare.
We embrace a strong entrepreneurial culture and focuses on innovation and the use of technology to enhance services, address skills shortages, and deliver quality healthcare outcomes. Our areas of expertise include HIV and TB care and treatment, pharmacy automation, medical male circumcision, and cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Right to Care Zambia has been awarded a five (5) year project funded by the USAID through the PEPFAR mechanism. The USAID – Action HIV Project aims to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity and transmission by achieving the UNAIDS and PEPFAR goal of 95/95/95 HIV treatment coverage by providing comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment maintenance services in Luapula, Northern and Muchinga provinces of Zambia. The USAID – Action HIV Project will work closely with and in support of the Ministry of Health.