Community HTS Assistant at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Reports to: Prevention Coordinator

Job Summary

• To reader quality counselling and psychosocial support to clients. Refer clients for appropriate additional psychosocial and clinical support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
HTS Duties:

• 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.