Peer Navigator - Masiphumelele at Desmond Tutu Health Foundation

Requirements

• Grade 12 Certificate
• Between the ages of 18 to 29 years (Considerable)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Fluency in English and or Afrikaans and or IsiXhosa
• Previous experience working with adolescents
• Computer literacy (Ms. Office)
• Ability to take initiative
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work with teams and independently
• Good planning and organizing
• Time management

Advantageous:

• Work experience in a health/clinic environment
• Experience in working with adolescents and youth
• Basic- knowledge of public health and community resources
• Able to lead small group activities
• Previous mental health research/service experience

Responsibilities:

• Welcome adolescents to the health park
• Relate to adolescents in a friendly and non-judgmental manner
• Invite adolescents to participate in a mental health research study
• Assist in consenting adolescents to participate in research
• Assist in collecting data from adolescents during the research study
• Attend a training programme to gain knowledge and learn skills to be able to deliver a mental health intervention
• Undergo assessment of skills to deliver the intervention
• Run individual and small groups sessions with adolescents related to mental health
• Assist in retaining adolescents throughout the study to attend intervention sessions and study visits
• Participate in staff meetings and appropriate training workshops, supervision and debriefing as organized and required by the project
• Maintain research participant confidentiality
• Perform all activities according to Good Clinical Practice Standards
• Work in a consistently ethical manner
• Provide report back during weekly site meetings
• Communicate ongoing issues, concerns, successes to the Line Manager