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Job Description

• To provide psychosocial support, counseling, and adherence education to clients enrolled in HIV care and treatment.
• The Social Worker/Adherence Counselor will work closely with the clinical and community health teams to promote positive health outcomes, retention in care, and treatment adherence.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct individual and group counseling sessions for ART clients.
• Provide psychosocial assessments and develop care plans for clients in need.
• Support newly diagnosed clients with HIV disclosure, partner notification, and treatment readiness.
• Educate clients on ART adherence, side effects, and healthy living with HIV.
• Track and monitor patient adherence using pill counts, appointment keeping, and viral load results.
• Identify and address barriers to adherence and retention in care.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers to follow up on defaulters and lost-to-follow-up clients.
• Identify clients in need of social support and refer them to relevant community-based services.
• Maintain updated directories of support networks and social welfare services.
• Facilitate access to services such as nutritional support, transportation, and legal aid where needed.
• Maintain accurate and confidential records of counseling sessions and client interventions.
• Assist with reporting adherence and psychosocial indicators to the monitoring and evaluation team.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and case review meetings.
• Support training and mentoring of peer educators, community health workers, and support groups.
• Train and distribute IEC (Information, Education, and Communication) materials on adherence and psychosocial support.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree or Diploma in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or a related field.
• Certification or formal training in HIV counseling and testing (HTS).
• Knowledge of ART guidelines, psychosocial issues affecting PLHIV, and patient confidentiality.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and case management skills.

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Responsibilities

• To provide technical support and capacity strengthening in HIV counseling and testing, HIV/STI prevention education, STI syndromic management, ART and PrEP adherence counseling, care and psycho-social support group services and HIV related health care services at the community and facility level.
• Support the integration of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services (Pre & Post exposure prophylaxis services, ART, Sexually Transmitted Infections, TB screening) to pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, and high-risk populations in line with current World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations and national guidelines both at the CSCC and through community ART teams and report performance indicators as appropriate.
• Elicit for sexual partners from all clients newly enrolled and currently on treatment.
• Contribute to the development and documentation of best practices, lessons learned and results and highlight the success of community based comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care among high risk populations.
• Provide psychosocial support and trauma informed care and support, treatment, and referral services to high risk population.
• Provide STI syndomic management to PLHIV on the field and in the CSCC.
• Provide comprehensive triage (in-clinic and/or mobile) and clinical assessment service to clients resulting in safe and appropriate clinical decisions that reflect their healthcare needs.
• Initiate appropriate nursing interventions (e.g. first aid and emergency interventions) to improve client outcomes and secure the safety of clients and clinic staff
• Make recommendations for care utilizing approved SOPs and protocols
• Where referrals for other healthcare services are necessary, support arrangements for the appropriate service via the appropriate referral system.
• Deal professionally and sensitively with highly personal, delicate, confidential and sometimes complex issues
• Create new medical records including clients’ treatment information and other relevant parameters
• Document accurate and concise clinical summary that outlines reasons for visit, decisions reached, relevant client history and follow up appointments with timescale given to client.
• Part of the retention and client management team (CMT) in monitoring adherence; working with clients and other health service providers to address difficulties
• Carry out any assignment as may be decided by the clinician and/or CSCC lead.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must be a certified Nurse
• A minimum of 2 years experience in HIV Programs.
• Good communication skills (Oral & Written).