Community HTS Assistant at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Reports to:                 Prevention Coordinator

Job Summary:

To render 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 always ensure completeness

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 tracking 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
• Certificate 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