Peer Educator - Tzaneen at Anova Health Institute

Key duties and responsibilities:

Preventive services

• Provide health education, with Anova/DoH teams, to adolescent and youth in focused health facilities
• Create a safe space for adolescent to discuss social and health-related issues affecting them.
• Educate youth on risky behaviour and equip them on knowledge on HIV/SRH at high volume facilities
• Create demand for Prevention services and refer clients

Linkage and Retention Services

• Assist with transitioning adolescent to adult service
• Improve retention in care and clinical outcome for adolescent living with HIV
• Improve access and uptake of HTS and linkage to care by adolescent and young people
• Support facilitation of adolescent groups in AYFS facilities
• Work closely with clinical teams to enhance retention and clinical outcomes

Capacity Building, Engagement and Administration

• Conduct capacity-building activities for the counsellors including the updates on HTS, SRH, TB and ART care to ensure quality procedures are implemented at health facilities
• Serve as a link between adolescent, local clinics, CBOs and other health service within the community
• Maintain record for adolescent and youth supported through the monitoring tools: HCT tested HIV positive, linked into care, SRH and treatment adherence care support

Minimum qualifications, experience and skills required:

• Grade 12 (Matric)
• Local Youth between 19 and 30 years of age
• Currently unemployed and not engaged in formal education
• Experience in public speaking and previous leadership roles and advantage
• Good facilitation and writing skills
• Good problem solving
• Punctual reliable and organized
• Knowledge and experience in engaging with adolescent
• Excellent interpersonal and mobilizing skills
• Prior knowledge of HIV/AIDS and recognized HIV counselling certificate will be advantage
• Able to conduct life skills and HIV/AIDS-related discussion groups