Counsellor (Paediatric) Wits RHi

3 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa AJ Personnel Full time

**Main purpose of the job**:

- Responsible for case finding and ensuring the linkage of HIV infected children and adolescents clients to treatment, care and support at the facility
- Mobilise and recruit index patients at the facility level and ensure that their children are tested for HIV
- Establish support clubs for children, adolescents, parents and caregivers.
- Support testing campaigns and events within the supported district

**Location**:

- **Tshwane - Pretoria**

**Key performance areas**:

- Ensure that all HIV-infected children and adolescents from communities or facilities are linked to care at a health facility and started on ART if applicable
- Providing facility HIV testing services to clients in line with DoH policies and guidelines
- Promote HTS and disclosure for children and adolescents, including case finding through HIV-infected adults and children, the KidzAlive and Flipster models and focus on specific entry points (e.g. IMCI, EPI, Family planning, adult chronic areas)
- Ensure that all HIV positive paediatric patients and adolescents from the respective facilities and communities are linked to care and started on ART
- Provide support for community HIV testing events
- Support establishment of after school testing services
- Provide assistance in setting up booking, referral and tracking system
- Carry out health education to clients on HIV, ARVs, Adherence to ART, Viral load monitoring, TB screening, etc. through clinic support groups; for clients linked back to care
- Support paediatric and adolescent Quality Improvement projects at selected facilities
- Distribute IEC material about HIV/TB and other related programmes
- Support rapid return of patients with poor results and link to community tracing
- Link patients failing treatment to adherence support
- Establish paediatric and adolescents support clubs
- Work closely with Psycho-social QIA or PSS Mentors in the provision of training on support group resources
- Promote utilisation of Help Lines for psychosocial challenges
- Strengthen referrals by helping to build awareness of community-based programmes
- Support the strengthening of linkages to CHWs/CBOs for newly initiated children and adolescents
- Assist in establishing relevant Support Groups for Children, Adolescents and Caregivers
- Provide group education where appropriate to children, adolescents and caregivers
- Attend programme-related meetings and training
- Compile a daily list of Paeds and adolescent clients who miss their follow-up appointments for ART
- Contact all Paeds and adolescents on the missed appointment list weekly
- Make telephonic attempts to contact the client or next of kin if the client cannot be contacted
- Investigate the reasons for missing appointments and counsel appropriately
- If the client cannot be contacted telephonically, contact the WBOT or other community-level worker or organisation to do a home visit
- Explore all Wits RHI and Department of Health options to trace the patient
- Compile progress reports on follow up of missed appointments
- Refer clients who missed appointments for advanced counselling to PSS teams
- Ensure that clients who have missed an appointment are rescheduled for their appointment on the routine clinic booking system
- Assist facility staff in the facilitation of support groups for paediatric and adolescents newly diagnosed with HIV
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Take ownership of driving your own career development by participating in ongoing training and development activities such as forums, conferences, policy setting workshops etc.

**Required minimum education and training**:

- **Grade 12**:

- **Basic HIV Counselling Certification and skills**:

- **Computer literacy**

**Required minimum work experience**:

- **Minimum 1-year experience in Paediatric and Adolescents Counselling and Testing**:

- **Good communication and presentation skills**:

- **Ability to network with various stakeholders**:

- **Fluent in English and other local languages**

**Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities**:

- Sound technical knowledge of paediatric and adolescent recruitment and case finding
- Experience facilitating Youth Care Clubs or support clubs
- Linkage to care interventions for children and adolescents an advantage
- Driver’s licence

**TO APPLY**:

- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- _AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant._
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups a

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