Description

Position Overview The home based care community health workerhas a big role to play in supporting patients and communities, including: educating patients and community members, providing psychological and social support, serving as the link between the clinic and the community, and performing home visits. He/she works as part of a large clinical team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers. A CHW should seek information from other team members when necessary. He/she notices the needs of his/her patients, patients’ families, and other community members and makes referrals to appropriate clinic staff when necessary. It is important to record information accurately on the CHW’s FormEssential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Act as a main liaison between the facility, patients and community, including CHWs.
• Serve as main representative of PIH and PIH values at facilities.

• Receive community-based referrals of presumptive cases as well as referrals from other facilities with proper paperwork and accompany patients throughout clinical process

• Keep track of all positive and presumptive patients and their sputum, including ensuring that tests are coordinated and tests results communicated back to patient through CHWs and supervisors, that positive patients are initiated on treatment, linked to CHWs and their contacts are being traced, that positive patients show up for their clinical follow-up appointments

• Ensure accurate and up-to-date information on HIV/TB on patient files, CommCare, registers, log books

• Provide counselling and support to patients, including advocating for them where necessary

• Assist facilitation of TB /HIV drugs orders and supply chain with CHW Program Officer and TB /HIV District Supervisors.

• Attending all HIV/TB clinics

• Accompanying patients across the clinical process

• Keeping a tracking sheet of all HIV/TB patients and their assigned CHWs

• Compile a bi-weekly report of the number of patients with and without CHWs and share with program officer

 

 

Education and Work Experience Requirements

• Preferably must have completed Ordinary National Diploma or Higher National Diploma.

• Commitment to social justice and human right.
• Should be an exemplary, honest, trustworthy, and respectful.
• Must be able to read and write in English as well as add and subtract using basic maths.
• Should be willing, able, and motivated to serve his/her community and dedicated to caring and supporting TB and HIV patients, family members and the community at large.
• Must be a permanent resident of the community and willing to work in it.
• Should be interested in community health and development
• Should be a good mobilizer and communicator
• Should be involved in community projects in the past
• Must be at least 18 years’ old

Must be residing in the community in which they are serving