Outreach Team Leader: Professional Nurse

Anova is an NGO that empowers people and changes lives. Good health and quality of life is what motivates us to provide healthcare solutions and support for those who need it most._
- We are looking for an energetic and dynamic _**_Outreach Team Leader: Professional Nurse_**_ to lead the Home-Based Carers, CDU, CDL, Rehab Adherence, CDU Staff._

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Provide Clinical Care to Patients**
- Provide clinical care to patients.
- Assessment of all clients upon admission to the NPO (before clients are allocated to specific CHW) per hospital/institution's referral letter.
- Ensure the implementation of client bedside records.
- Attend personally to complicated dressings.
- Use the prescribed assessment tool to categorize each client.
- Develop an appropriate care plan for each client as Dr’s orders.
- Provide necessary support and facilitate in-service-training to relatives/primary caregivers in the home environment.
- Do regular follow-ups and spot checks on clients.
- Set up daily work schedules for the Community Health Worker (CHWs)

**Recruitment, Selection & Training**
- Conduct regular orientation sessions with health workers.
- Assess & identify training needs of all carers.
- Ensure all health workers have completed the standardized training curriculum presented by PGWC.
- Present/facilitate on-going, in-service training to Community Health workers.
- Facilitate and support the EPWP training.
- Promote team building exercises for health workers.

**Administration**
- Establish a set of records and ensure that they are up to date.
- Supervise the administration of all matters relating to Home Based Care and Integrated areas.
- Ensure that the necessary reports are written and submitted.
- Ensure that all CHW givers work within their scope of practice.
- Follow all policies and procedures as required by the organization and ensure that all work targets are met.
- Identify resources; equipment and supplies that are needed and follow required ordering process to access these from Technical Assistant.

**Report/ Meetings**
- Establish a set of records and ensure that they are up to date.
- Participate in meetings as required as well as attending training courses and workshops related to the nature of the work done.
- Check CHW workers time sheets, verify reports, and submit monthly stats and quarterly reports timorously to sub-district Technical Assistant.
- Submit same reports and stats to NPO Management.
- Attend Regional HBC quarterly meeting, bi-monthly HBC Forum meetings and bi monthly Rehab Forum meetings.
- Conduct weekly meetings between CHW's and Coordinators.

**Monitoring and Evaluation**
- Establish a set of records and ensure that they are up to date.
- Participate in meetings as required as well as attending training courses and workshops related to the nature of the work done.
- Check CHW workers time sheets, verify reports, and submit monthly stats and quarterly reports timorously to sub-district Technical Assistant.
- Submit same reports and stats to NPO Management.
- Attend Regional HBC quarterly meeting, bi-monthly HBC Forum meetings and bi monthly Rehab Forum meetings.
- Conduct weekly meetings between CHW's and Coordinators.
- Continuous assessment and evaluation of CHW's competencies.
- Regular visits and spot checks.
- Monitor and evaluate CHW's service delivery.
- Monitor and evaluate client satisfaction and client progress.
- Update client categories on a monthly basis.
- Monitor and ensure Care Plan compliance and reporting.
- Refer clients back to CHC's (timeously) if no progress or condition deteriorates.

**Networking and Advocacy**
- Local community clinics, Community Health Centres and day Hospitals.
- Liaise with all other organizations at grassroots level as necessary.
- Liaise with Referring institutions.
- Identify areas that need special support and institute the necessary help.
- Develop awareness within the community of relevant HIV/AIDS TB and other related issues and assist staff to encourage community members to take responsibility for their health.

**Recruitment, Selection & Training**
- Conduct regular orientation sessions with health workers.
- Assess & identify training needs of all carers.
- Ensure all health workers have completed the standardized training curriculum presented by PGWC.
- Present/facilitate on-going, in-service training to Community Health workers.
- Facilitate and support the EPWP training.
- Promote team building exercises for health workers.

**Administration**
- Establish a set of records and ensure that they are up to date.
- Supervise the administration of all matters relating to Home Based Care and Integrated areas.
- Ensure that the necessary reports are written and submitted.
- Ensure that all CHW givers work within their scope of practice.
- Follow all policies and procedures as required by the organization and ensure that all work targets are met.
- Identify resources; equipment and supplies that are ne