Job Title: 17 Counselors
Organization: Joint Clinical ResearchCentre
Location: Lango
Job roles and responsibilities:
- Provide quality and comprehensive counseling services to clients, family members, communities and partners, with focus on HIV and TB services
- Empower clients in chronic care to disclose their HIV status to significant others
- Use index client testing to access HIV testing services among children, sexual partners/networks and family members
- Participate in the process of empowering clients with skills for self-reliance and making appropriate succession plans
- Participate in the mobilization and support of communities to offer HIV education and care
- Provide home-based HIV counseling and testing, and TB screening to household members
- Establish and support peer support groups for clients
- Participate in the drawing and implementation of the clinic work plans.
- Perform counseling and other support techniques and procedures as requested and prescribed by the clinicians
- A high degree of Integrity, Empathy, Patience, Confidentiality
- Possess the ability to work under mental and physical stress
- Conduct home visits to clients on ART and TB for adherence support
- Provide information to clients, aimed at reducing their vulnerability to diseases and infections through health education.
- Participate in HIV/AIDS awareness at the clinic and sensitizations in the communities
- Support and supervise the facility with the YAPS activities including reporting.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor
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