Community Health Worker at Wits Health Consortium
To recruit transgender through communities as well as identify transgender who have defaulted (especially TB and / or HIV positive patients) in order to increase their access to clinical services (treatment of STI’s, HCT, Family planning, and so on) offered by WRHI.rd
Community Health Worker at Wits Health Consortium
Key performance areas:
Conduct pre and / or post HIV test counselling. Provide adherence counselling and support to clients eligible for, or already on ARV programme. Follow up with clients have defaulted by not attending the clinic for their follow up treatment, CD4 count results or monitoring at six months. Ensure that the hotels are timeously informed of mobile clinic day visits. Promote studies and recruit participants by conducting health talks and distributing brochures at the Clinics. Obtain verbal consent before conducting screening interviews. Inform willing participants that participation in the study is voluntary. Conduct screening interviews to consenting participant to determine eligibility into study.
Schedule appointment with eligible participants to attend further screening at WRHI clinic. Record screened participants in screening register. Obtain informed consent from participants for screening and enrolment. Administer study questionnaires. Receive queries from patients and address or refer queries accordingly. Provide adherence counselling and support to clients eligible for, or already on PrEP programme. Provide health talks at the clinics and hotels and ensure that the prevention, VCT, adherence counselling is promoted to the clients.
Transgender Programme
Required minimum education and training:
Grade 12. Valid driver’s license. Fluent in English and other African languages (Sesotho and Zulu preferable).
Required minimum work experience:
Minimum 6 months working experience as a Peer Educator working in communities (added advantage)
Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:
Basic HIV education and counseling. Empathetic with good communication and interpersonal skills. Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Be tactful, respectful and maintain confidentiality. Able to work independently and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Community Health Worker at Wits Health Consortium
Should you be interested in applying for this vacancy, please send an email to Vacancy25@wrhi.ac.za. The subject heading of the email must read KR 04 – 2024 and the job title of position applying for. Please include the following documentation: A cover letter (maximum one page) that clearly states which vacancy you are applying for. A detailed CV.
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